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The Rita Panahi Show | 14 April · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scorne US Australia. This is the winder Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panalty Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight. Shane Bourne's son Jackson blames the government and
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Speaker 2: the COVID shot for his father's untimely death.
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Speaker 3: I'll get my panel's reaction to that.
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Speaker 2: In the day's other top headlines, the scandal around the
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Speaker 2: manner in which.
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Speaker 3: Ben Robert Smith was arrested continues.
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Speaker 2: I'll speak to Counselor Steve Christu, who has demanded answers
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Speaker 2: from the Attorney General.
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Speaker 3: Kosher Gator will have the latest from.
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Speaker 2: The US, including two high profile resignations due to sexual
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Speaker 2: misconduct allegations. And you may want to shut your eyes
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Speaker 2: and ears for our segment with Alex Stein. Will get
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Speaker 2: his reaction to Lizzo's performance at Coachella and Left is Losing.
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Speaker 2: It features a white man taking a stand against racism
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Speaker 2: by assaulting a brown woman. But First Liberal leader Angus
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Speaker 2: Taylor has attacked the Albanezy government for opening the daughter
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Speaker 2: migrants and visa holders who reject Australia's call values. The
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Speaker 2: opposition leader spoke at the Menzies Research Center in Sydney
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Speaker 2: today where he unveiled the first phase of the coalition's
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Speaker 2: immigration policy. That coalition has promised to deport overstayers abusing
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Speaker 2: the legal system, restore temporary protection visas, and weed out
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Speaker 2: foreign agents pretending to be students and migrant workers. He
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Speaker 2: called out the government for turning a blind eye to
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Speaker 2: the reality of immigration and integration.
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Speaker 4: Those who migrate from liberal democracies have a greater likelihood
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Speaker 4: of subscribing to Australian values compared to those coming from
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Speaker 4: other places ruled by fundamentalists, extremists and dictators. Our door
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Speaker 4: has been open to people who, far from having an
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Speaker 4: allegiance to Australia, actively working against our nation. People intimidating
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Speaker 4: migrant communities, people trying to undermine our democracy, people sowing
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Speaker 4: social discord. All this stems from an immigration system where
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Speaker 4: standards have erated.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is News Corps senior writer Patrick Carline
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Speaker 2: and Sky News contributor d D.
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Speaker 3: Dunlevy. Patrick, I'll start with you.
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Speaker 2: The Coalition has clearly worked out immigration is a big
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Speaker 2: issue and a big driver of support for one nation.
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Speaker 3: What do you make of those proposed measures?
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Speaker 5: Look, I think the big thing is it's going to
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Speaker 5: resonate with people who have gone to the right in
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Speaker 5: the past few months, mostly men of about my age,
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Speaker 5: who have got frustrated with the immigration system and the
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Speaker 5: settings of it and in the way it's been allowed
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Speaker 5: to drift. And I think you've got to point a
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Speaker 5: different now in what Angus Taylor is saying that separates
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Speaker 5: Labor and liberal And I think that's really important because
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Speaker 5: it's a conversation that a lot of people on the
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Speaker 5: left don't want to be having. I mean, it's sort
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Speaker 5: of almost been a taboom subject immigration for so long.
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Speaker 5: Now you have a set of points that are separate
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Speaker 5: to the Labor Party and we can actually try and
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Speaker 5: have a conversation about it because we need to be cannid.
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Speaker 5: A lot of these fears well found across.
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Speaker 1: To the nation.
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Speaker 2: Well, is the point of difference enough because we don't
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Speaker 2: have a number and the thing that's what people are
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Speaker 2: looking for. Are you going to propose a immigration number
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Speaker 2: that is dramatically different to what Labor is proposing? Otherwise
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Speaker 2: it's all retric.
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Speaker 6: And we likely won't see that number until closer to
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Speaker 6: the election in twenty twenty eight. And I do think
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Speaker 6: that Angus Taylor is probably going to be accused of
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Speaker 6: being Donald Trump light with this policy, but I do
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Speaker 6: think that it's also going to hit right at the
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Speaker 6: heart of what matters most to people, and this is
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Speaker 6: why we've seen the rise and the popularity of one nation.
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Speaker 6: I actually think it's a vote winning policy if they
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Speaker 6: can carry it through in the most important part of
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Speaker 6: it to me is going to be the screening. There's
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Speaker 6: no point in having these people come into the country
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Speaker 6: and then canceling their visas. I think we've got sixty
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Speaker 6: five thousand people in the country at the moment on
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Speaker 6: you canceled visas. We need to be able to stop
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Speaker 6: them and to sort out who's a bad character.
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Speaker 7: Not let them in the first place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because once they're in the legal system, that could
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Speaker 2: take a long time and it's a very costly process.
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Speaker 2: We're still not having really the full debate. We're now
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Speaker 2: finally talking about values, Patrick, but elsewhere in the world
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Speaker 2: they're talking about Okay, we've got different migrant groups from
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Speaker 2: different areas, what is the net gain to the country.
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Speaker 2: There's ones who almost immediately contribute pay taxes, and then
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Speaker 2: there's migrant groups who are net takers. Where you've got
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Speaker 2: that massive portion of them on welfare. Even after five years,
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Speaker 2: after ten years, I think we're still a long way
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Speaker 2: from having those sort of honest discussions in this country.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think part of it is the fact we
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Speaker 5: are proud of our migrant history. We had waves of
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Speaker 5: migrants coming through after World War Two who succeeded, who
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Speaker 5: wanted to do well, who wanted to actually make Australia better.
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Speaker 5: Now you have certain migrant groups who don't do that.
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Speaker 5: They don't subscribe to Australian values, they don't believe in
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Speaker 5: free speech, they don't believe that men and women are equal,
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Speaker 5: and it contradicts what Australia is about. And I think
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Speaker 5: you're right, we need to actually be looking at that
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Speaker 5: and saying, are these a kind of people that we
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Speaker 5: should be allowing in their our country.
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Speaker 6: Can I just add something to what Patrick said, and
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Speaker 6: that is that a lot of these people are coming
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Speaker 6: here from countries where they have no respect for authority,
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Speaker 6: for the rule of law, and I think that the
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Speaker 6: same applies here. And this is why we're seeing these
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Speaker 6: repeat offenders, because they just don't care about what police
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Speaker 6: say and about being locked up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to come here with a eagerness to assimilate. Now,
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Speaker 2: Susan Coyle was announced as Australia's new Army Chief, becoming
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Speaker 2: the first woman to hold that position. Lieutenant General Coyle
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Speaker 2: is currently the Chief Joint Chief of Joint Capabilities, but
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Speaker 2: she also holds the title as one of the Defense
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Speaker 2: Forces Indigenous Champions, and she's already been criticized online for
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Speaker 2: what some consider activism. This video I'm about to play
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Speaker 2: you happened last month at a government event.
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Speaker 8: May also begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the
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Speaker 8: lands on which we meet tonight, the Gatigal people of
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Speaker 8: the or nation, and pay my respects to elders past present.
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Speaker 8: I also extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Terres
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Speaker 8: Strait Islander people who have contributed to the defense of
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Speaker 8: Australia in times of peace and war. I am proudly
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Speaker 8: one of the two Defense Indigenous Champions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always lengthy, Patrick. Is the criticism unfair?
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Speaker 3: After all?
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Speaker 2: Isn't she almost obliged to perform that sort of bit
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Speaker 2: of virtue signaling.
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Speaker 3: It's just become the norm now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the goalposts have started to shift, haven't they.
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Speaker 5: Like in the last say, six months where that sort
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Speaker 5: of acknowledgment people do sort of openly say, hang on
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Speaker 5: this necessarily, this is not the core function of why
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Speaker 5: you're here.
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Speaker 1: She sounds very.
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Speaker 5: Well qualified, especially in cyber and information technology, which are
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Speaker 5: major increasing sort of elements of modern wars. And I
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Speaker 5: think it's to be fair, let's wait and see how
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Speaker 5: she goes.
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Speaker 1: She is very well qualified.
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Speaker 5: I don't think Indigenous champion is going to be an
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Speaker 5: important part of her role.
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Speaker 2: Well, she did make a point there of thanking Indigenous
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Speaker 2: servicemen and.
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Speaker 1: Women, and they're good stories.
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Speaker 2: But I would have thought once you put on the uniform,
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Speaker 2: your ethnicity goes out the window.
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Speaker 3: It shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't matter at any time, but particularly when you
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Speaker 2: are serving your country. And what about all the non
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Speaker 2: indigenous people who have served. She didn't reserve a special
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Speaker 2: thanks for them, just one small group.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, her appointment was virtue signaling from the moment it
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Speaker 6: was announced.
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Speaker 7: And I don't want to take away from the fact.
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Speaker 6: Is Patrick quite well, He points out, she appears to
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Speaker 6: be very highly qualified for it. But the first thing
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Speaker 6: that they had to tell us about it.
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Speaker 7: Was that she's a woman. Yeah, but we can.
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Speaker 6: See that that doesn't matter if there's a war on.
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Speaker 6: I just want someone big and strong who knows what
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Speaker 6: they're doing defending our country. I don't care what gender
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Speaker 6: they are or what they're indigenous, whatever it is, she's
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Speaker 6: tried to achieve their.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely if you would think at that level it's all
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Speaker 2: about meritocracy. But yeah, who knows. Ah well, Patrick, good idea.
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Speaker 2: Let's give her a chance and see what we hear
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Speaker 2: from her now. The son of the late Great Shane
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Speaker 2: warn has spoken out about his father's death. Jackson Warne
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Speaker 2: said he believes the COVID vaccinations and the boosters his
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Speaker 2: father received played a part in his father's death. Have
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Speaker 2: a listen, do you think that the COVID shot killed
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Speaker 2: your dad?
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Speaker 9: I definitely think it was involved. And I don't even
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Speaker 9: think it's saying that is controversial anymore, Like with the
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Speaker 9: amount of data that's come out, Like even if dad
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Speaker 9: had underlying health issues, I think this brought it straight
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Speaker 9: to the surface. And that's one thing that I've always
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Speaker 9: been like, that's one thing I've always struggled with because
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Speaker 9: my first impression, as soon as I hung up the phone,
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Speaker 9: I instantly blamed the government. I instantly blamed COVID and
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Speaker 9: the vaccine and doing things like the State Memorial where
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Speaker 9: that's funded by vic governor. It's the MCG and there
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Speaker 9: has to be certain due diligence, and people's in the
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Speaker 9: crowds have to get photos and do all that stuff.
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Speaker 9: I felt really uncomfortable, and at the State Memorial I
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Speaker 9: nearly actually said I blame the governments, I blame COVID,
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Speaker 9: but I didn't, and it's probably smart I didn't.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm obliged here to say that there is no
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Speaker 2: conclusive evidence linking COVID vaccines to Shane Warne's heart attack.
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Speaker 3: Now did Jackson?
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Speaker 2: Morn I went on to explain that his dad didn't
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Speaker 2: want to have all these boosters, but he was obliged to.
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Speaker 2: Back then, you had some employers that required their employees
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Speaker 2: to be up to date with their shots. What do
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Speaker 2: you make of that discussion? It was fascinating to watch,
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Speaker 2: and I think Jackson made a decision to finally speak
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Speaker 2: about this publicly, something he's talked about privately for a
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Speaker 2: long time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Well, look, actually my first thought was that Shane will
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Speaker 6: would be so proud of Jackson because he's got the
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Speaker 6: story in the headlines and Jackson has said what he
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Speaker 6: mostly wants is to get that message across to look
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Speaker 6: after your heart health.
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Speaker 7: And here we are talking about it now.
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Speaker 6: But interesting when I heard what he said, I was
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Speaker 6: reminded of it was a couple of years ago. I
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Speaker 6: was getting my flu shot and I said to my chemist,
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Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm up to date for boosters.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if I need to, And he said
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Speaker 6: in Locke, he said, clearly, I'm not an anti vaxxer,
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Speaker 6: but I wouldn't suggest you have it. There's far too
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Speaker 6: much data out now on the ill of COVID and
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Speaker 6: the COVID vaccines. I beg your pardon, particularly on men
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Speaker 6: and younger men as well.
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Speaker 7: So I think i'd prefer to you.
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Speaker 2: I know it's semantics, but I prefer to call it
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Speaker 2: a shot rather than a vaccine because it doesn't operate
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Speaker 2: like a vaccine. A vaccine stops you catching something, it
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Speaker 2: stops you passing it on. A vaccine typically doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to have a boost ever since month, so I think
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Speaker 2: because I am pro vaccine to me, the whole scandal
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Speaker 2: with COVID shots has undermined the faith people have in vaccines,
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Speaker 2: and it's undermined faith in all vaccines when really this
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Speaker 2: is a.
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Speaker 3: Very particular product.
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Speaker 2: And Patrick, he did make the point there Jackson that
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Speaker 2: whilst this would have been wildly controversial to say back
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Speaker 2: there now it's not. We had the ABC to another
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Speaker 2: report just last week on vaccine injuries. It's something that's
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Speaker 2: talked about a lot more overseas than in this country.
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Speaker 3: But it's an important issue.
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Speaker 5: Look, it's difficult because there's very little conclusive evidence. I mean,
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Speaker 5: you have a study that finds COVID vaccines or shots
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Speaker 5: can lead to heart inflammation, but there's no clear link,
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Speaker 5: as you said in the intro, to COVID.
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Speaker 1: Shots and heart attacks.
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Speaker 5: And I feel so sorry for Jackson because his dad
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Speaker 5: is fifty two, Peak of health, a superstar. You shouldn't
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Speaker 5: be dying of a heart attack when you're fifty two.
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Speaker 5: And I think part of this is that Shane Warn
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Speaker 5: himself was opposed to having the haft the shots, but
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Speaker 5: submitted to it against his will. And as Jackson said,
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Speaker 5: we may never know what Actually I think.
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Speaker 2: We will as the years go on, because there's body
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Speaker 2: of research that's accumulating around and it all depends on
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Speaker 2: your age group and your different factors. It's quite complex. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the PM, who's not very complex. He
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Speaker 2: was grilled by Sunrise most nationally Bar over the government's
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Speaker 2: advertising campaign that's going to cost you twenty million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Listen to Anthony alberteazy try and defend this entire strategy.
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Speaker 10: So advertising campaim certainly for twenty mil.
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Speaker 11: Because we want because well, it goes to your network,
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Speaker 11: amongst others, Nat, which is about keeping the economy going
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Speaker 11: and giving people that direct information.
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Speaker 2: Did he It almost sounds like he's offering a bribe there,
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Speaker 2: telling her where this money is going. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be lining your pockets indirectly, Nat. So it makes me quiet.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you really come on?
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Speaker 2: I mean, Natalie bar must have been laughing yourself silly there.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I'd love that she made the point, does
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Speaker 6: Anthony ALBINIZI know that social media is free, that you
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Speaker 6: can put stuff out and a lot of politicians are
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Speaker 6: doing it to great effect making their point that way.
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Speaker 6: It's just a dreadful waste of money. And where did
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Speaker 6: the twenty million go? I mean has it gone into
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Speaker 6: net pockets?
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Speaker 10: Open? In part of it?
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Speaker 2: Patrick, The advice in public information campaign is pretty patronizing,
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Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, really up your.
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Speaker 2: Tires maybe, you know, drive a bit less, take any
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Speaker 2: sort of what was heavy items out of your heart
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Speaker 2: what really probly children?
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Speaker 5: Yes, and it is a serious crisis and people are
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Speaker 5: genuinely worried. Pumping up with tires is not going to
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Speaker 5: make the slightest difference. We want to know when the
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Speaker 5: fuel is going to come. You know, I think we're
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Speaker 5: good until the end of May or something. Where's a
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Speaker 5: fuel coming in June and July? And to be fair,
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Speaker 5: the government can't have all the answers, but we want
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Speaker 5: to see the government actually making making that safer and
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Speaker 5: making that better so that we can actually sleep better
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Speaker 5: at night.
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Speaker 6: Look, the Prime Minister would have made a laughing stock
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Speaker 6: of himself or has done with that ad trading.
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Speaker 7: I'm married to a trade now.
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Speaker 6: He's not going to take his ladders and all the
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Speaker 6: mixes and stuff off of the van, and he's desperate
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Speaker 6: for diesel to keep his van moving so we can
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Speaker 6: get to building science to work. So rule out the
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Speaker 6: trades as anyone who's going to listen to that, and
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Speaker 6: everyone flicks through the ads anyway.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, twenty million dollars it could have been better spent. Now,
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Speaker 2: before you two go, we have to talk about.
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Speaker 3: Harry and Meghans.
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Speaker 2: They're in town, guys, just around the corner in Melbourne
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Speaker 2: for the start of a four day commercial tour. Harry's
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Speaker 2: scheduled to speak at a mental health summit on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: as well as a November event with the Western Bulldogs.
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Speaker 2: Critics have labeled the troop a grubby attempt to cash
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Speaker 2: in on their royal status.
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Speaker 6: What do you think, Well, I think they're getting increasingly
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Speaker 6: desperate for money. I mean, they're really low with their colors,
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Speaker 6: haven't they doing the things that they're doing. I think
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Speaker 6: it also shows incredible ego from them that they think
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Speaker 6: of one of their visits is to the Royal Children's Hospital.
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Speaker 6: They missed the big fundraising appeal that might have been
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Speaker 6: able to help in some way. But do they honestly
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Speaker 6: think that breezing through for two seconds is going to
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Speaker 6: make a difference to anyone?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely wonderful picture opportunities, though, Patrick here that you will
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Speaker 2: be trailing the couple at some point, you are taking
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Speaker 2: one for the team world one there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Look, they don't have the good will anymore, do they?
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Speaker 5: They lost it they came in twenty eighteen, they were
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Speaker 5: just married. They were the glamorous face of royalty and
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Speaker 5: now they're the non royals who bag the royals, who
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Speaker 5: act like victims and who are looking to monetize their status.
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Speaker 5: And Australians culturally a bit like British, I think, unlike
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Speaker 5: the US.
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Speaker 1: We don't like that.
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Speaker 2: We really just even the Americans are thinking of them, Patrick,
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Speaker 2: They're really they have to find a third home, I think,
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Speaker 2: Patrick Carline.
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Speaker 3: Did they done? Leevey, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 2: We spoke yesterday on the ongoing controversy surrounding the arrest
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Speaker 2: of Ben Roberts Smith, the most decorated Australian soldier alive
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Speaker 2: who could be spending Anzac Day behind bars on alleged
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Speaker 2: war crimes. One man who was being vocal on the
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Speaker 2: arrest is Cumberland City Councilor Steve Christu, who has written
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Speaker 2: to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Attorney General Michelle
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Speaker 2: Rowland demanding answers as to why certain media outlets at
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Speaker 2: advanced knowledge of Robert Smith's arrest. Steve Christu joins me, Now, Steve,
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Speaker 2: tell me why you felt the need to write to
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke and Michelle Roland.
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Speaker 12: Well quite frankly, reader, what's happening to Ben Robert Smith
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Speaker 12: is a national disgrace. The way he was carried off
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Speaker 12: that plane, to say, escorted by the Federal Police in
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Speaker 12: public view, with a full pack of media waiting is
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Speaker 12: absolutely reprehensible and questions need to be asked. The Australian
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Speaker 12: public want questions asked on why mister Robert Smith wasn't
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Speaker 12: afforded the opportunity to be hand himself in in private
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Speaker 12: and you know these this whole process be done in
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Speaker 12: a dignified manner. It's already undergnified enough without having this
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Speaker 12: form of media circus happening around the whole situation.
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Speaker 2: What do you make of the suggestion it was in
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Speaker 2: the Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend that perhaps this
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Speaker 2: arrest occurred in Sydney as opposed to Queensland, where Ben
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Speaker 2: Robert Smith resides, because there is a possibility of having
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Speaker 2: a more diverse jury pool in Sydney than in Queensland.
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Speaker 2: This was suggested as a reason why this arrest occurred
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Speaker 2: in Sydney.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, look, in my opinion, and certainly you know, hundreds
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Speaker 12: of other people that have spoken to me about this
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Speaker 12: as well. You know, it would seem that this might
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Speaker 12: be a likely scenario, and if it is, it's very
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Speaker 12: disappointing and very sad that this country has come to
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Speaker 12: such a level to stoop to such a level, very
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Speaker 12: very disappointing, just lost for words, and we expect better
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Speaker 12: from our federal government agencies, not this kind of this
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Speaker 12: whole process is just disappointing. I've just lost for words,
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Speaker 12: to be honest, very disappointed for Ben Robertson.
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Speaker 2: Steve former Labor Defense Minister Joel Fitzgiven, has described his
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Speaker 2: entire saga as a tragedy. Tell me how you see
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Speaker 2: it beyond just the manner in which the arrest happened,
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Speaker 2: And are you getting much feedback from constituents where you are.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Look, I'd go one step further and label the
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Speaker 12: whole saga and national embarrassment. It's a day of shame
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Speaker 12: for Australia. You know, no other country in the world
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Speaker 12: has spent three hundred million dollars pursuing their war veterans
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Speaker 12: and going overseas and putting people up in hotels allegedly
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Speaker 12: in trying to build a case against Ben Roberts Smith.
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Speaker 12: In contrast, the United States has spent three hundred million
19:51
Speaker 12: dollars to save their two pilots and rescue them when
19:55
Speaker 12: they were shot down. Over ran the last few days,
19:58
Speaker 12: and the message I'm getting from my community, where a
20:01
Speaker 12: great percentage of them are Afghan nationals, is that they're
20:06
Speaker 12: very afraid of the Taliban. They don't know what's happening.
20:09
Speaker 12: The realities are the Afghans living in Maryland's Granville and Guildford,
20:13
Speaker 12: a community which I represent, fled and came to Australia
20:18
Speaker 12: to flee from the Taliban because women were being abused.
20:22
Speaker 12: They are being tortured, killed and raped, and they had
20:26
Speaker 12: no rights in Afghanistan. And yet they can't work out
20:31
Speaker 12: why our own soldiers are being pursued like this.
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Speaker 2: Now, what do you say to those who are critical
20:38
Speaker 2: of your intervention here, saying you're a counselor you're in
20:42
Speaker 2: local government and this isn't a local government issue.
20:46
Speaker 12: Well that might be their limitations, but it definitely is
20:49
Speaker 12: at mine. I'm an elected representative and I'm elected to
20:52
Speaker 12: speak my voice and represent the community, and I'll continue
20:56
Speaker 12: to do so. And those people are spooking. Actions are
21:01
Speaker 12: the people that are probably against Ben Robert Smith and
21:04
Speaker 12: the same people that would be crying and hiding behind
21:08
Speaker 12: men like Ben Robert Smith if this country was ever
21:11
Speaker 12: attacked and we had to go to war.
21:14
Speaker 2: Now, what action do you think should be taken If
21:17
Speaker 2: it can be established that government authority, someone within the
21:21
Speaker 2: AFP tipped off the media about this arrest.
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Speaker 12: Look, if that allegation can be proven, well somebody needs
21:29
Speaker 12: to be held to account and somebody definitely needs to
21:32
Speaker 12: lose their job. You just can't have this kind of
21:34
Speaker 12: behavior coming from government agencies and authorities where you know,
21:40
Speaker 12: people might be denied natural justice and humiliated like this.
21:44
Speaker 12: What happened to innocent and to a proven guilty and
21:49
Speaker 12: being given a fair go? Already the process, in my opinion,
21:53
Speaker 12: has been tainted because this has been streamed to millions
21:56
Speaker 12: of Australians And I'm very concerned earned about what kind
22:01
Speaker 12: of fair hearing will Ben Roberts Smith receive where from
22:05
Speaker 12: potential jury members when they've already been tainted by this footage.
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Speaker 3: Well it's not just the footage.
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Speaker 2: We've had just years of coverage on this issue, haven't we.
22:16
Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, it's going to be difficult to
22:18
Speaker 2: find people who don't have preconceived views about this case.
22:23
Speaker 3: Steve Christ You thank you so much for your time tonight.
22:26
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Delta Khama left he is losing ed PASTI laters from
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Speaker 2: the US, including two high profile resignations due to sexual
22:35
Speaker 2: misconduct allegations.
22:37
Speaker 3: Kosher Gator is up next.
22:49
Speaker 2: You're watching the Reader Panehy Show, and it's time for
22:52
Speaker 2: Lefty's losing d Start with veteran Democrat strategist James Carvill.
22:58
Speaker 2: He's often presented the sensible old god before they all
23:02
Speaker 2: went crazy and woke, but the eldest statesman of the
23:06
Speaker 2: party is just as deranged as the current crop. Listen
23:10
Speaker 2: to him rant here about wanting to watch President Trump suffer.
23:14
Speaker 13: I want to be clear on us. I do not
23:16
Speaker 13: want that man to die. I want to I want
23:18
Speaker 13: to watch him suffer. And I can't watch a dead
23:21
Speaker 13: person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant
23:25
Speaker 13: come November. So when people tell him I.
23:28
Speaker 2: Can't watch a dead person's suffer, I mean these people
23:31
Speaker 2: are sick. I keep telling you that sick and often violent.
23:35
Speaker 2: Watch this leftist activist Chris Ostroshoko, a solet conservative female journalist,
23:41
Speaker 2: Savannah Hernandez.
23:43
Speaker 3: Sick sick stuff. Why was that a.
24:09
Speaker 2: White man taking a stand against racism by assaulting a
24:13
Speaker 2: brown woman?
24:14
Speaker 3: Is that what happened there?
24:14
Speaker 2: This is a woman with Filipino and Mexican heritage. He
24:18
Speaker 2: should be prosecuted to the full extenter of the law
24:21
Speaker 2: for that. Did you see how he had to be
24:23
Speaker 2: held back by others? He wanted to continue that assault.
24:27
Speaker 2: And this character has been celebrated by the leftist meta
24:30
Speaker 2: in the past. Here he is featured with Jen Saki,
24:33
Speaker 2: remember her, Joe Biden's former White House Press secretary turn
24:38
Speaker 2: MSNBC host.
24:39
Speaker 14: He's using his new fan theme to encourage others to
24:41
Speaker 14: stand up for community too.
24:43
Speaker 10: Ahead of nationwide strikes and protests tomorrow. We asked Chris
24:46
Speaker 10: if he had any words of wisdom to share, and
24:48
Speaker 10: here's what he had to say.
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Speaker 15: We need some peace and harmony in our state, in
24:54
Speaker 15: across our country. We've been dealing with enough tyranny. We're
24:57
Speaker 15: done with that. We need some peace, love and harmony.
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Speaker 15: Please come on, please show up, get off that culture.
25:04
Speaker 15: If I can do it, you can do it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's all about peace, love and harmony.
25:09
Speaker 3: You saw that.
25:10
Speaker 2: Now get ready to be captivated by a stunning and
25:14
Speaker 2: brave display from a bunch of silly young women who
25:17
Speaker 2: performed a protest dance aimed at President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
25:22
Speaker 2: That would be the President Trump who first allerted authorities
25:26
Speaker 2: to Epstein's creepy antics, and who Epstein hated and tried
25:30
Speaker 2: to destroy to his dying day. But why let facts
25:34
Speaker 2: get in the way of interpretive dance?
25:42
Speaker 10: I have.
26:02
Speaker 2: So brave, so stunning. Now do you remember the sitcom
26:06
Speaker 2: Malcolm in the Middle. It was pretty good, all about
26:09
Speaker 2: a genius child, Malcolm and his dysfunctional family. Remember he
26:13
Speaker 2: had a big bunch of brothers. Well, now in the
26:16
Speaker 2: new series they're rebooting it, he has one less brother
26:19
Speaker 2: because one of those brothers is now trans or non binary.
26:23
Speaker 2: And apparently he knew from the age of five he
26:27
Speaker 2: was a They then.
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Speaker 16: I was like five, and I started feeling wrong. I
26:34
Speaker 16: thought I was great at hiding it because you guys
26:37
Speaker 16: never said anything.
26:38
Speaker 10: He was looking at me, and I knew that he
26:41
Speaker 10: knew and had always known.
26:44
Speaker 2: Let's go back to MSNBC, now ms NOW whatever they're
26:48
Speaker 2: calling themselves, and this time we're checking in with Rachel
26:51
Speaker 2: Madda doing what she does best, misleading her dim witted audience.
26:56
Speaker 2: Here she pretends she cares about veterans and reads extensively
27:00
Speaker 2: from an NPR piece about veterans losing their homes.
27:04
Speaker 14: How are these guys doing taking care of the troops
27:08
Speaker 14: and the veterans who come home?
27:09
Speaker 4: Form more?
27:11
Speaker 10: This is the lead from NPR.
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Speaker 1: Quote.
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Speaker 14: More than ten thousand veterans lost their homes to foreclosure
27:16
Speaker 14: since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut
27:19
Speaker 14: down a key safety net in the VA home loan program.
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Speaker 1: Quote.
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Speaker 14: The Trump administration was warned this would happen at a
27:25
Speaker 14: hearing in March twenty twenty five before the House Committee
27:28
Speaker 14: on Veterans' Affairs, a representative from the Mortgage Bankers Association
27:31
Speaker 14: warned about it explicitly.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 2: She went on to read more extracts from the piece,
27:37
Speaker 2: but curiously she forgot this key part of the story.
27:42
Speaker 2: The roots of the crisis go back to a mistake
27:45
Speaker 2: made during the Biden administration when the VA abruptly shut
27:49
Speaker 2: down a pandemic assistance program while thousands of vets.
27:53
Speaker 3: Were still in the middle of it.
27:55
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was just an innocent oversight from Rachel
27:59
Speaker 2: must be. Let's bring in sky use contributor Kosher Gaeta
28:03
Speaker 2: Kosher the ms NOW host makes in and look balanced
28:07
Speaker 2: and rational.
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Speaker 17: Yes, Rachel is going to Rachel and that's what she does.
28:12
Speaker 17: There's nothing innocent about her now, Yes, and she knows
28:15
Speaker 17: exactly what she's doing, and she is quite smart. So
28:18
Speaker 17: you know, you're the way you described her leading her
28:20
Speaker 17: dim witted audience or sort of apied piper aspect to
28:23
Speaker 17: what she's doing. Nobody from the right watches MSNBC ms NOW,
28:28
Speaker 17: so that's not a problem. But in this day and
28:29
Speaker 17: age of social media, does get clipped and shared large
28:32
Speaker 17: and wide, and I think what she's really doing there
28:35
Speaker 17: is taking advantage of the wedge and the fracture and
28:38
Speaker 17: the Trump base right now as it relates to the
28:40
Speaker 17: war and this idea that he's focusing too much on
28:43
Speaker 17: foreign affairs and not enough on domestic affairs like the veterans,
28:46
Speaker 17: and then she's insinuating like, oh, look, he's sending people
28:49
Speaker 17: to war, and then when the veterans come back, they're
28:51
Speaker 17: not looked after.
28:52
Speaker 10: That's the undertone of what she's doing.
28:53
Speaker 17: So I think there's a specific point she's trying to
28:56
Speaker 17: drive and to extend that wedge, and she has no
28:59
Speaker 17: problem selectively taking only a piece of it out of
29:02
Speaker 17: context to certain her means.
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Speaker 3: Well, she can do.
29:04
Speaker 2: That because really that's a minor issue compared to what
29:08
Speaker 2: she did for years, which was just relentlessly push discredited,
29:14
Speaker 2: debunked Russian collusion, hoaxed hysteria, and really absolutely no accountability
29:20
Speaker 2: for any of that.
29:21
Speaker 10: No, in fact, she got rewarded.
29:22
Speaker 17: She famously now works one day a week for one
29:25
Speaker 17: hour of programming and she gets paid thirty million dollars.
29:28
Speaker 10: So it's great to be Rachel matter absolutely.
29:31
Speaker 2: Now let's talk about President Trump's Iran blockade and the
29:36
Speaker 2: Strait of hermos Kosha explain how this blockade works and
29:41
Speaker 2: why the US is cutting off a trade route that
29:43
Speaker 2: it's been desperately trying to force open.
29:47
Speaker 17: And the messaging has been a little bit all over
29:49
Speaker 17: the place the administration, which doesn't help. So Senkon came
29:53
Speaker 17: out and clarified, given the little bit scattered messaging that
29:56
Speaker 17: they are blocking just Iranian ports and on the Gulf
29:59
Speaker 17: of and the Persian Gulf side of the street specifically,
30:03
Speaker 17: other ships and vessels are allowed to transit through the strait.
30:06
Speaker 17: They can use other ports, but it's not those two,
30:08
Speaker 17: and the reason is that's where the oil is exported.
30:11
Speaker 17: So they're trying to now maximize economic pressure on Iran.
30:15
Speaker 17: That is, or it usually was Trump's favored lever to
30:20
Speaker 17: apply pressure you using economic tools. And so the idea
30:23
Speaker 17: here is that if they strangleholder, choke off the export
30:27
Speaker 17: revenue that Iran gets, that's directly pressuring Iran. It's indirectly
30:31
Speaker 17: pressuring Iran through China because China's the biggest customer, and
30:34
Speaker 17: China theoretically would pressure Iran to come to the table
30:37
Speaker 17: or come to some sort of deal.
30:39
Speaker 2: That's a strategy, but there's a fear that cutting off
30:43
Speaker 2: oil supply to China could go the other way instead
30:46
Speaker 2: of them putting pressure on the Iranian regime to be
30:50
Speaker 2: reasonable and come to a deal, that they'll start helping
30:54
Speaker 2: the Iranian regime and providing them, perhaps even with military aid,
30:59
Speaker 2: which would be a major escalation in the world. There's
31:02
Speaker 2: been some conjecture about that, some might call it scare mongry.
31:06
Speaker 3: What do you think about that?
31:07
Speaker 2: Is there any possibility that China will take a bigger
31:10
Speaker 2: role in this conflict?
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Speaker 17: Very possible, And there's a saying that once you get
31:14
Speaker 17: into a conflict, the only thing that's predictable is the
31:17
Speaker 17: unpredictability of it, and we don't know what could happen.
31:20
Speaker 17: There are many, many actors on the board, and certainly
31:23
Speaker 17: if you're cutting off eighty percent of where China acquires
31:26
Speaker 17: it's oil from. They seem to be so far restrained,
31:29
Speaker 17: and they also like to favor economic leverage and other strategies,
31:32
Speaker 17: but I wouldn't rule that out at some point some
31:35
Speaker 17: sort of pressure tactic coming back. Also, the Golf States
31:39
Speaker 17: do use those ports, and they are allies and investor
31:41
Speaker 17: trillions of dollars in the US. They're not exactly happy
31:44
Speaker 17: with this as well. Iran itself is going to keep
31:46
Speaker 17: trying to think of its own cards and countermoves that
31:49
Speaker 17: it can play, which has been attacking the Golf States
31:52
Speaker 17: nearby to further kind of widen that wedge between the
31:55
Speaker 17: US and them, because we're supposed to be allies. So
31:57
Speaker 17: all sorts of things could happen. And while this plays out,
32:00
Speaker 17: the prices are surging. We're back up to over one
32:02
Speaker 17: hundred dollars a barrel.
32:03
Speaker 3: Our market is all over the follow place.
32:06
Speaker 17: This is a high stakes issue that's affecting the whole
32:09
Speaker 17: world in many ways.
32:10
Speaker 2: And I think it's entire conflict has shown that the
32:13
Speaker 2: West is not terribly resilient. Not only have we've become
32:18
Speaker 2: overly reliant on foreign nations for essential needs, but we
32:24
Speaker 2: can't withstand even just a few weeks of discomfort, whether
32:27
Speaker 2: that's shortages, prices, stock market turmoil. It's a very different
32:35
Speaker 2: mindset to say World War Two, where people's entire you know,
32:40
Speaker 2: people in Australia were willing to completely turn their lives
32:44
Speaker 2: upside down to go join a conflict on the other
32:46
Speaker 2: side of the world because it was for the greater good.
32:49
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, that's a very good point. It's a different
32:52
Speaker 17: era where countries and economies are much more fragile. Obviously,
32:55
Speaker 17: it's like the Age of fragility in a way that
32:57
Speaker 17: you're so reliant on this global system working and ultimately
33:03
Speaker 17: those alliances and coalitions can free when something happens and
33:06
Speaker 17: then you don't have self reliance. Also, demographics have changed.
33:09
Speaker 17: The nature of the country is different. The willingness to
33:12
Speaker 17: go and fight for a cause is different. Maybe loyalty
33:16
Speaker 17: to the cause is different. Now the understanding of it
33:18
Speaker 17: is different. So yeah, it has definitely exposed fragility and
33:22
Speaker 17: lack of unity, I think in lack of consensus on
33:25
Speaker 17: what we should be doing or should not be doing
33:27
Speaker 17: for that matter.
33:27
Speaker 2: Well, you look at what's happening in Europe and how
33:32
Speaker 2: divided they are on key issues, then yeah, you just
33:35
Speaker 2: see we are not united in the West of the moment. Now,
33:39
Speaker 2: this may be one of the dumber controversies to hit
33:42
Speaker 2: the Trump administration after Pope Leo again ignored the persecution
33:47
Speaker 2: of Christians to instead criticize the Trump administration. You may
33:50
Speaker 2: recall he previously criticized the administration for implementing immigration policy.
33:56
Speaker 2: This time it was the war in Iran, and we
33:59
Speaker 2: all know it was only a matter of time before
34:02
Speaker 2: Donald Trump hit back. No surprises there, But there wasn't
34:06
Speaker 2: much fuss there because we've become accustomed to that. But
34:10
Speaker 2: then he posted this image it's a meme, and all
34:14
Speaker 2: hell break loose. People on the right and left were upset.
34:18
Speaker 2: The left is are always upset. But some Christians on
34:22
Speaker 2: the right said this was tantamount to blasphemy and kosher
34:26
Speaker 2: This is rare for the president.
34:28
Speaker 3: He deleted it in the end.
34:30
Speaker 17: To me, that's the help the global headline that's actually
34:33
Speaker 17: walked something back and deleted his tweet. Look, I think
34:36
Speaker 17: the first tweet, yes, it ruffled feathers, and it was
34:40
Speaker 17: maybe uncouth and all of that, but at this point,
34:43
Speaker 17: that is Trump's brand, and you could argue that the
34:45
Speaker 17: Pope kind of was asking for it by stepping into
34:48
Speaker 17: the political arena. You're you're the head of obviously a religion,
34:52
Speaker 17: and stay in the lane of religion and morality. Don't
34:54
Speaker 17: step into politics because if you do, we have an
34:57
Speaker 17: eccentric president who will punch back, even if.
34:59
Speaker 10: You're the pope.
35:00
Speaker 17: Second one, I think people viewed it as a little
35:02
Speaker 17: self aggrandizing, putting him.
35:04
Speaker 2: In me it was a joke. To me, it was
35:06
Speaker 2: it was it's a meme. It's a meme. He's not
35:09
Speaker 2: presenting himself as God or Jesus or no, of course,
35:13
Speaker 2: the preme leader if you want to use Iranian terminology.
35:17
Speaker 3: But it is interesting that he deleted.
35:20
Speaker 17: It did And I think the other issue too, is
35:21
Speaker 17: it's undergirded by the fact that the surround war remains
35:24
Speaker 17: very controversial, and it's on the right as well, on
35:26
Speaker 17: the right as well, and I think that's where it
35:27
Speaker 17: hit a nerve. And maybe led to that decision, Whereas
35:29
Speaker 17: when he spired with the Pope and even the previous
35:32
Speaker 17: pope founcers on immigration, he doubled and tripled down because
35:35
Speaker 17: he knew that his beast was with him, and majority
35:37
Speaker 17: of the country is with him.
35:38
Speaker 10: Here, it's a little bit.
35:39
Speaker 2: Daysier, absolutely, And you're right because when you first had
35:42
Speaker 2: to go at the pope or go back at the Pope,
35:45
Speaker 2: the media was shocked, All the usual commentators were shocked,
35:48
Speaker 2: but that the voters weren't. They were expecting him to
35:52
Speaker 2: say something back after Pope Leo intervened in domestic US politics.
35:56
Speaker 2: Now Vice President J. D Vance has weighed in on
35:59
Speaker 2: this issues. Obviously a devout Catholic, He's pointed out that
36:04
Speaker 2: the US president is in charge of US foreign policy,
36:07
Speaker 2: and perhaps the Pope should focus on matters concerning the
36:11
Speaker 2: Catholic Church.
36:12
Speaker 18: In some cases, it would be best for the Vatican
36:16
Speaker 18: to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters
36:20
Speaker 18: of you know, what's going on in the Catholic Church,
36:23
Speaker 18: and let the pros of the United States stick to
36:25
Speaker 18: dictating American public policy.
36:27
Speaker 3: Kosher.
36:28
Speaker 2: How do you see JD Vance's role in this entire conflict.
36:32
Speaker 2: He has been charged with negotiating this piece deal, but
36:36
Speaker 2: as we know, he is not an interventionist. In fact,
36:39
Speaker 2: is probably the most isolationist in this administration.
36:43
Speaker 10: He's in a difficult spot.
36:44
Speaker 17: He's walking a tight roll where he is a standard
36:46
Speaker 17: bearer for populism, America First, nationalism, as you say, anti war.
36:51
Speaker 10: He is a devout.
36:52
Speaker 17: Catholic just to bring the Pope Bruha back into it,
36:55
Speaker 17: and he can't go out and shouldn't go out in
36:58
Speaker 17: my opinion, and openly just barage his boss like that's
37:01
Speaker 17: an every good strategy for any subordinate. We've all been
37:04
Speaker 17: in that position, but by the same took And he
37:06
Speaker 17: is independently elected because the president and vice president are
37:09
Speaker 17: elected together, so he's not somebody who could be fired
37:11
Speaker 17: or put to the side in the same way as
37:13
Speaker 17: other cabinet members. And so he has a little bit
37:15
Speaker 17: more runway to figure out how to somehow signal his
37:19
Speaker 17: allegiance to the constituency and that he still is America
37:23
Speaker 17: First if he should be the front runner in twenty
37:25
Speaker 17: twenty eight, which right now he is without going against
37:27
Speaker 17: the president, and that's a really really tough type rope
37:30
Speaker 17: to walk.
37:30
Speaker 10: But he's doing it as well as I think he.
37:31
Speaker 2: Can, and I saw some odds just in the last
37:34
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. He's still what the odds I saw
37:38
Speaker 2: the hot favorite to be the next candidate, But Marco
37:43
Speaker 2: Rubio stocks are rising, and that there is a difference
37:48
Speaker 2: between the two characters in their worldview, not just obviously
37:51
Speaker 2: how they operate. Now, let's talk about a couple of
37:54
Speaker 2: congressmen who have disgraced themselves. We already talked about Eric
37:58
Speaker 2: Swolwell extensively last night. The Democrat congressman resigned from Congress today.
38:06
Speaker 2: Last night he suspended his campaign to be the next
38:09
Speaker 2: Coverer of California after shocking allegations were made against him,
38:13
Speaker 2: including rape. But the Republicans have their own scandal today.
38:18
Speaker 2: Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales has quit his reelection bid after
38:23
Speaker 2: being accused of sending leeward text messages to at least
38:27
Speaker 2: two staff members, including one with whom the married father
38:31
Speaker 2: of six admitted to having an affair with and who
38:33
Speaker 2: fatally set herself on fire. Tony Gonzalez posted this, when
38:39
Speaker 2: Congress returns tomorrow, I will file my retirement from office Kosher.
38:47
Speaker 2: These two congressmen have disgraced themselves, their parties, their constituents.
38:53
Speaker 2: It's incredible that you could get to that level with
38:56
Speaker 2: these sorts of skeletons in your closet.
39:00
Speaker 17: Timing is curious because one the cynical side of me,
39:03
Speaker 17: would think that it was all orchestrated, because a lot
39:05
Speaker 17: of this stuff is known.
39:06
Speaker 10: There are open secrets in Washington.
39:08
Speaker 17: Why now, why did they take out swallowow by they
39:11
Speaker 17: whoever that is, and then very conveniently they find a
39:13
Speaker 17: Republican to take out to sort of diffuse against him.
39:16
Speaker 17: But the broader issue here is these people in politics
39:19
Speaker 17: and in Congress are not exactly the most sympathetic figures.
39:22
Speaker 17: It's easy to perceive or imagine that these kinds of
39:25
Speaker 17: things happen more often than not. And then on top
39:28
Speaker 17: of that, there's this cloak around it and there's no
39:31
Speaker 17: tr transparency at all. There's actually a whole file of
39:35
Speaker 17: sexual harassment settlements that they make to staffers or other
39:38
Speaker 17: people who accuse them, and that is under seal, and
39:41
Speaker 17: Nancy Mace and others have been trying to pass legislation
39:43
Speaker 17: to get it unsealed. The counter argument is presumption of innocence.
39:48
Speaker 17: And sometimes these people have targets on their back and
39:50
Speaker 17: there can be frivolous accusers, so let's not put it
39:52
Speaker 17: out there. But the flip side to that is these
39:55
Speaker 17: are public servants. They're meant to be representing us, and
39:58
Speaker 17: everything from their stock trades to settlements that they make
40:01
Speaker 17: to accusers of sexual harassment should be made public and
40:03
Speaker 17: it isn't. And then when it's opportune for them, they'll
40:06
Speaker 17: pick and choose and reveal or do these opera research
40:10
Speaker 17: dumps on people, which is very curious, but you know,
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Speaker 17: I'm kind of not surprising.
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Speaker 2: Well, he said, these are often open secrets, and with
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Speaker 2: Eric Swolwell, it appears to be because so many people
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Speaker 2: are now coming out and saying he's always had this
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Speaker 2: shocking reputation and people have known, but it wasn't reported.
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Speaker 2: This was very well hidden from the public. And he's
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Speaker 2: had this teflon quality because he had the entire Fang
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Speaker 2: Fang scandal where he had a Chinese spy it is
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Speaker 2: in a sanctum in his bed, and he got a
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Speaker 2: promotion after that. He wasn't demoted, he didn't have his
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Speaker 2: career destroyed. It was just forgotten about and he was
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Speaker 2: elevated in the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 17: He was a presidential candidate. He never got more than
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Speaker 17: one percent of the vote, but he was running. He was,
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Speaker 17: you know, the feast of the Democrat Party for that
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Speaker 17: period of time. He was probably useful to them. I
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Speaker 17: would assume he was one of the feasis of the
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Speaker 17: Russia geek collusion hogs against was an attack dog. He
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Speaker 17: was an attack dog and so he was protected. And
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Speaker 17: maybe now he has outlived his usefulness. And how the
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Speaker 17: maty have fallen.
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Speaker 2: The party machinery gets you in the end, Kosher Gator,
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Still to come.
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Speaker 2: The latest in entertainment, including Lizzo's wild performance at Coachella.
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Speaker 3: Alex Stein is up next.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back now, it seems lizos off the ozempic and
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Speaker 2: back to boarding private jets. The Kamala campaigner was in Coachella,
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Speaker 2: where she performed a set with a giant twerking La
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Speaker 2: Boo Boo, and she was joined on stage with the
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Speaker 2: thoroughly talentless Sexy Red. It was even worse than you think,
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Speaker 2: Yeah it was. That was the highlight, guys, I played
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Speaker 2: you the best part. People spent a small fortune to
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Speaker 2: be at Coachella. I think I'd rather stick thumbtacks in
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Speaker 2: my eyes than see that again. But you know, I
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Speaker 2: do prefer Lizzo's work at Coachella more than her attempts
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Speaker 2: to save democracy.
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Speaker 3: Remember this democracy, Your health could be the moray.
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Speaker 10: On you.
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Speaker 2: But I tell you that Democrats thought she was a
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Speaker 2: force to be reckoned with the rest of us. Though,
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Speaker 2: listen to her warning here. She meant it as an endorsement,
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Speaker 2: but it was a warning.
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Speaker 12: You know.
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Speaker 2: They say, if Kamala wins, then the whole country will
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Speaker 2: be like Detroit. Joining me now is the host of
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Speaker 2: After Hours with Alex Stein. Alex, did you enjoy Lizzo
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Speaker 2: and Sexy Reds Coachella performance?
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Speaker 3: Hope you liked it more than I did.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, you know, I didn't really like the performance. And
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Speaker 19: the only people that did like the performance are the
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Speaker 19: people that were tripping on probably LSD and MBMA at
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Speaker 19: the audience. I mean, those are the only people that
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Speaker 19: could enjoy something so terrible.
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Speaker 2: Now, fans of the cues the producers of Euphoria of
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Speaker 2: putting Sidney Sweeney.
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Speaker 3: Through a humiliation ritual.
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Speaker 2: After nearly a five year hiatus, the show return with
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Speaker 2: Sweeney's character set to marry her boyfriend, but in her
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Speaker 2: opening scene, Alex Sweeney's I stop in this revealing outfit
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Speaker 2: dog costume, doing provocative videos, some of which we can't
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Speaker 2: even show on this program.
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Speaker 3: But I can't show you this.
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Speaker 10: I'm trying to become TikTok f.
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Speaker 12: The wor.
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Speaker 1: You've been a bad, bad dog.
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Speaker 2: M yes, drinking water on all fours and playing with
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Speaker 2: dog toys.
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Speaker 3: What do you make of that, Alex?
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Speaker 1: Well, Rita.
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Speaker 19: You know, I'm a huge animal lover, so I'll allow it,
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Speaker 19: and anything that puts Sydney Sweeney on my timeline more,
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Speaker 19: I'm in full supportive. So you know it is an
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Speaker 19: unorthodox role for her returning after five years of not
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Speaker 19: playing that. I'm sure that's going to be difficult. But
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Speaker 19: if you just put her on lne your I think
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Speaker 19: that job will be achieved swiftly and done at the
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Speaker 19: top level imaginable.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Alex, come on, You've got to be kidding me,
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Speaker 2: don't you Reckon? They've done that to her deliberately because
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Speaker 2: she upsets so many people on the left with that
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Speaker 2: American Eagle campaign and you know, talking about her genes
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Speaker 2: and people said it was a dog whistle.
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Speaker 3: To white supremacy.
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Speaker 2: Don't you think they're making a do that just to
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Speaker 2: teach her a little lesson.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, and that makes me like it even more. Rita,
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Speaker 19: that's how sick I am in my mind. The fact
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Speaker 19: that she's doing that as a punishment makes it even better.
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Speaker 19: And I hate to admit that publicly, but.
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Speaker 3: You just have bless you. Now, this is an incredible story.
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Speaker 2: The New York Post reports an Illinois woman who claimed
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Speaker 2: she was detained by ICE for nearly two days was
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Speaker 2: actually relaxing at a hotel getting SPA treatments. According to
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Speaker 2: one million dollar defamation suit filed by a county sheriff.
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Speaker 2: Sundays Sonny Neckvi, who is a US citizen, gain national
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Speaker 2: attention last month was she and a band of supporters
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Speaker 2: publicly insisted she was unlawfully detained by ICE officers for
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Speaker 2: around forty three hours.
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Speaker 3: But Alex, it looks like she.
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Speaker 2: Was perhaps busy getting facials and massages at a hotel.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm not surprised, and she almost got away with it.
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Speaker 19: But you know, that's the whole entire reason that we
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Speaker 19: have ICE. It is only going to deport the illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 19: So if you're a legal citizen. The fact that this
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Speaker 19: person is so feels like they're so under threat they
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Speaker 19: have to lie and misrepresent the fact that they were
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Speaker 19: even detained or you know, potentially deported. That's because no
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Speaker 19: American citizen has been deported by ICE. As much as
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Speaker 19: CNN and MS now wants to tell you, ICE is
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Speaker 19: only dealing with people that are here illegally, and I
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Speaker 19: think that they have their you know, every rate to
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Speaker 19: do that.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion.
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Speaker 2: Before we go on to the next topic, I've got
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Speaker 2: to say I do like your new set, and you've
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Speaker 2: managed to squeeze in AOC there. I know you've got
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Speaker 2: a crush on the congresswoman. I don't know if she
47:12
Speaker 2: appreciates being on your wall. But that was the tax
47:16
Speaker 2: the rich dress she wore to the met gala, which
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Speaker 2: is ironic in itself. Now, the former longtime drama to
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Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen has come out and slammed the painfully woke
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Speaker 2: see I'm saying he should respect President Trump. Speaking to
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Speaker 2: The New York Post, Winnie Lopez said Trump is the
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Speaker 2: president of the United States, everyone should have respect for
47:38
Speaker 2: him now. Lopez also added that his current band doesn't
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Speaker 2: focus on issuing political statements. Instead, they focus on the music.
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Speaker 2: My band, whatever we think, we don't go there in
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Speaker 2: our music, said Lopez.
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Speaker 3: Alex. He can only say.
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Speaker 2: This because he's retired from Bruce's band. I can't imagine
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Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen allowing any sort of viewpoint diversity in his band.
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Speaker 19: No, you know, Bruce is not going to let somebody
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Speaker 19: have a different political viewpoint than him. But what's so
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Speaker 19: crazy is Rita. When Donald Trump was shot, you saw
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Speaker 19: all these people cheer, and people were so happy, and
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Speaker 19: that made me sick. But when Joe Biden fell off
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Speaker 19: that bicycle, I was in tears. I didn't vote for
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Speaker 19: Joe Biden, but I don't ever like seeing my president
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Speaker 19: just falling over. So I do agree with the drummer
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Speaker 19: that no matter who is president, whether you voted for
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Speaker 19: them or not, it's your American duty to go support
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Speaker 19: whoever the commander in chief is, whether you like him
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Speaker 19: or not, because that's just who America is and that's
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Speaker 19: what we're supposed to do. So I agree with the drummer.
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Speaker 1: One.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to say I did laugh a little
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Speaker 2: bit when he fell off that bicycle.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty funny, come on it. We had to
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Speaker 3: laugh at that, but you.
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Speaker 2: Know, he wasn't really the president had we had someone
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Speaker 2: else pulling the strings. So we have respect for whoever
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Speaker 2: that happened to be. Maybe one day we'll find out
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Speaker 2: who it was. Alex Stein, thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: your time tonight, and that's all the time we have tonight.
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Speaker 2: I'll see you at eleven tomorrow night. Newsnight is up next.