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The Rita Panahi Show | 13 April · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring MS Australia. This is the winder Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Riata Panety Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight, calls grow for former SAS soldier Ben Robert
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Speaker 2: Smith to be released from jail. My panel will discuss that.
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Speaker 2: In today's other top headlines, the conflict in the Middle
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Speaker 2: East deepens, with peace talks failing. I'll speak to Elon
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Speaker 2: Levy about that, and the Great John Heindereker will have
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Speaker 2: the latest from the US, including President Trump's warning to
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Speaker 2: China not to arm the Iranian regime. And later in
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Speaker 2: This is abhorrent. But first, as we approach Anzac Day,
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Speaker 2: where we pay tribute to those who have served our country,
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Speaker 2: to all those who have died in military operations or
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Speaker 2: risked their life keeping us safe, and that does include
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Speaker 2: Victorian Cross recipient Ben Robert Smith. The most decorated Australian
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Speaker 2: soldier alive today well he could be spending Anzac Day
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Speaker 2: in jail. Ben Robert Smith has been charged with five
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Speaker 2: counts of the war crime of murder. He's accused of
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Speaker 2: taking part in five killings between two thousand and nine
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Speaker 2: and twenty twelve during his deployment in Afghanistan. He has
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Speaker 2: at all times denied the allegations. In recent days we've
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Speaker 2: seen a host of politicians call for the former Essay
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Speaker 2: soldier's release from prison. Former Labor Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon
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Speaker 2: wrote a piece for The Australian over the weekend where
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Speaker 2: he argued, whatever the strengths or otherwise of the prosecution's case,
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Speaker 2: he should not be locked up and someone needs to
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Speaker 2: facilitate his release. It's a tragedy, one largely created by
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Speaker 2: journalistic activism and reactive overreach on the part of those
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Speaker 2: who've been intensely and relentlessly pressured to respond to the activism.
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Speaker 2: Joel fitzgiven also wrote, the government funded office of this
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Speaker 2: Special Investigator may have new evidence we shall see. They'll
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Speaker 2: need it because it's unlikely they'll achieve a verdict beyond
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Speaker 2: reasonable doubt. Relying only on the witnesses and evidence presented
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Speaker 2: in the defamation proceedings. Regardless, in this case, most Australians
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Speaker 2: would say the tests should be beyond any doubt. Let's
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Speaker 2: bring in pr Council Managing Director Christian McSweeney and Institute
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Speaker 2: of Public Affairs Research fellow Colleen Harken. Colleen, do you
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Speaker 2: agree with the former Defense minister that this prosecution is
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Speaker 2: ill advised?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's a very confronting time for Australia because this
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Speaker 4: is our most decorated soldiers. He got the Award for
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Speaker 4: Gallantry in two thousand and six and then a VC
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Speaker 4: in twenty eleven, and he's represented everything the best of
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Speaker 4: our defense force, our personelity, service, sacrifice, courage, all of
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Speaker 4: those things that we put on a pedestal. But the
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Speaker 4: real question here is due process, innocence until proven guilty.
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Speaker 4: We have to have confidence in our institutions to be
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Speaker 4: able to see that through. But to me, there's a
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Speaker 4: whole lot of ancillary questions that come with this. How
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Speaker 4: is it that the Channel nine cameras were able to
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Speaker 4: be there at the time of at the point of arrest,
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Speaker 4: Why and how.
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Speaker 5: Has it taken ten years to get to this stage.
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Speaker 4: How is it that the command chain above Ben Robert
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Speaker 4: Smith were given awards for command distinguished Service medals, and
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Speaker 4: yet when it comes to this in the Beritten report,
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Speaker 4: they're excused, they're removed from this process for not having oversight.
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Speaker 4: And then of course there's the Afghan soldier who shot
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Speaker 4: three Australian soldiers while they were sitting in playing cards.
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Speaker 4: And we don't seem to have that of we haven't
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Speaker 4: gone chasing, you know, defending our own defense personnel. And
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Speaker 4: and I think that the average Australian is sitting here
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Speaker 4: looking at this and going our defense personnel deserve a
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Speaker 4: lot better than what they're getting at the moment. And
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Speaker 4: there's a real uncomfortable feeling that this is a sort
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Speaker 4: of there's been a lot of activism around this.
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, John Fitzgiven talks about that journalistic activism. You
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Speaker 2: also made the point that how welcome it would be
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Speaker 2: if just a fraction of the hundreds of millions of
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Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars spent pursuing our war heroes was invested in
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Speaker 2: securing justice for Australians killed in action or in service.
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Speaker 2: It's a popular sentiment, Christy, I've got to say, I
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Speaker 2: can't even get my head around how we could spend
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Speaker 2: three hundred million in this endeavor. How is that possible?
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Speaker 6: I can't either, and I can't understand how we can
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Speaker 6: spend three hundred million, and a lot of it is
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Speaker 6: largely in the pursuit of one man.
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Speaker 5: And I don't think there many Australians.
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Speaker 6: Who respect the Defense Force and the fact that people
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Speaker 6: go to war and serve our country and do that training.
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Speaker 6: I am from Perth. I'm well aware of what the
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Speaker 6: essays training is. There are says Personnalit in my own family,
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Speaker 6: we ask those people to experience things beyond the realm
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Speaker 6: of human mental, physical capacity that we can't even have
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Speaker 6: any comparison to what we do in our daily lives.
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Speaker 6: To go to war and to do that to fight
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Speaker 6: for our country, and I think it's really distressing to
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Speaker 6: see someone who's done that be frog marched off the
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Speaker 6: plane in front of his children and seems to be
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Speaker 6: the singular figure around everything that is wrong or may
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Speaker 6: have been wrong in the Defense Force response in Afghanistan
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Speaker 6: and echoing Colleen's comments there there are possibly other questions
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Speaker 6: to answer around higher up commands. He's not a particularly
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Speaker 6: high ranking soldier at that time. In Australia's response in Afghanatan,
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Speaker 6: the military does rely on hierarchy and it is a
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Speaker 6: chain of command, that's how it's built. So I would
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Speaker 6: want to ask those questions as well.
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Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't particularly high ranking, but he was high
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Speaker 2: profile VC recipient. They don't hand those out, and you
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Speaker 2: do wonder about what this does to the Anzac legacy,
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Speaker 2: the damage done to have this man sitting behind bars
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Speaker 2: when we celebrate Anzac Day, that this is going to
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Speaker 2: be something I think no one imagined would be happening.
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Speaker 2: Our most decorated soldier alive behind bars. Now, let's talk
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Speaker 2: about some recent polling that has come out. Last week.
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Speaker 2: A Redbridge Accent poll revealed the federal voting intentions and
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Speaker 2: the demographic data here is fascinating. You look at Gen x's,
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Speaker 2: for example, each showed that amongst Generation X one, Nation
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Speaker 2: is now the leading party on thirty three percent, of
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Speaker 2: Labour on thirty one, Coalition trailing far behind on nineteen
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Speaker 2: the Greens were just on eight percent. And what's just
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Speaker 2: as interesting is when you look at the two party
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Speaker 2: preferred data when it's ALP and the Coalition ALP come
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Speaker 2: out in front fifty one forty nine percent. But when
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Speaker 2: it's Labor and one Nation amongst Generation Next, one Nation
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Speaker 2: is just ahead there on fifty one to forty nine. Christy. Again,
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Speaker 2: this is not good news for the coalition, and I
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Speaker 2: would argue it's not particularly great news for Labor either.
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Speaker 6: It's devastating for the coalition that there are now polls
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Speaker 6: mounting one Nation as a two party preferred against the government.
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Speaker 5: That in itself is devastating.
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Speaker 6: What has led to that position is incredibly even more
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Speaker 6: structurally devastating. It's been very clear that the Liberal Party
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Speaker 6: over years has concentrated on people who we call boomers,
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Speaker 6: perhaps over sixties. I have sat through many election campaign
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Speaker 6: where we don't pitch to young people because they don't
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Speaker 6: vote for us. We don't necessarily pitch to women because
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Speaker 6: they don't vote for us, and so political strategy has
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Speaker 6: been since the Howard days, double down your bet. But
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Speaker 6: unfortunately the demographics of the country have changed. People under
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Speaker 6: thirty five now the largest block of voters, and of
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Speaker 6: course gen X people. And that's me saying we did
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Speaker 6: everything you told.
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Speaker 5: Us to do.
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Speaker 6: We went to university, we got a mortgage, some of
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Speaker 6: us had children.
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Speaker 5: We did everything.
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Speaker 6: Right, we paid our hex, we worked hard, and we
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Speaker 6: still can't afford a house twenty five kilometers from where
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Speaker 6: we grew up. And that's a real challenge for the
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Speaker 6: coalition parties to get those voters back.
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Speaker 2: It makes some excellent points there, but I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: I agree Colleen with the sentiment that the Coalition has
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Speaker 2: just doubled down on their core supporters, because I think
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Speaker 2: they have kind of diluted their message by trying to
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Speaker 2: appeal to what they see is the center, what they
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Speaker 2: see as leftist voters or teel voters, what women want,
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Speaker 2: but they just misjudge it continuously. They completely misjudge what
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Speaker 2: those voters.
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Speaker 4: And in all respect Christy, I'm going to disagree with
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Speaker 4: you there. I think that what's happened with the Coalition
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Speaker 4: is it has actually lost its base because it has
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Speaker 4: forgotten about who it is and what it stands for.
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Speaker 4: If it was able to articulate strongly and clearly the
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Speaker 4: idea of personal responsibility and the freedom that gives you,
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Speaker 4: you know, sort of taking a risk and getting rewarded
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Speaker 4: for it, all of those sorts of things. The younger
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Speaker 4: generation is very aligned with, having a crack at something.
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Speaker 4: You know, they're sort of being taught this entrepreneurial spirit.
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Speaker 4: Everything is sort of you know, the TikTok scenario about
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Speaker 4: you can make a big difference just by doing a
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Speaker 4: TikTok zoom type thing.
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Speaker 5: So their mentality is very able.
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Speaker 4: To accommodate what our true liberal party values. But I
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Speaker 4: don't think the Liberal Party has been able to articulate it.
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Speaker 4: Probably they've sucked themselves sucked in again to the idea
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Speaker 4: that they don't represent females very well, but it's had
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Speaker 4: more females represented than almost anybody else. It sort of
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Speaker 4: has lost its way about how to sell its story.
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Speaker 4: And I think that's what's happened with the young generation
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Speaker 4: is that one nation have been able to articulate very
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Speaker 4: clearly and succinctly, in a tony abbit kind of way
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Speaker 4: about what they stand for, and that's really appealing to
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Speaker 4: young people.
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Speaker 2: Well, there was a poll out in the last month
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Speaker 2: where amongst female voters, when you look at that demographic,
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Speaker 2: one nation was coming out in front. And again that
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Speaker 2: shocked everybody because I think female voters naturally gravitate left.
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Speaker 2: But I think all voters want a party that has
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Speaker 2: some conviction that you know what you're supporting and what
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Speaker 2: they believe.
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Speaker 5: In the authenticity of it.
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Speaker 2: Authenticity is keys in any politics. Now, Channel seven's a
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Speaker 2: spotlight program. We don't too often promote other stations here,
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Speaker 2: but they have completed a major investigation into the truth
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Speaker 2: behind Australia's green energy transition. Have a look at what
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Speaker 2: they found.
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Speaker 7: Deadly and destructive cost a thou move to renewables.
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Speaker 1: The Chinese are the criminals here, but make no mistake,
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Speaker 1: we're also contributing to this man made help.
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Speaker 6: I don't think we can blame the Chinese for taking
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Speaker 6: advantage of our stupidity.
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Speaker 2: If it's so good, why does the power of bills
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Speaker 2: keep going up?
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Speaker 1: Why can't you sit down and answer open, honest questions?
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Speaker 2: Oh well, Colleen, is great to see other media reporting
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Speaker 2: on an issue we have been talking about on this
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Speaker 2: program on this station for years with that very same questions.
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Speaker 2: If it's so cheap, if it's so good, why are
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Speaker 2: bills going up here? Why are we looking at even
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Speaker 2: greater bills down the track, and reliability not being as
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Speaker 2: good And having a look at the sources of these
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Speaker 2: so called renewable technologies and they're quite shameful, and it's
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Speaker 2: something that isn't talked about enough. It's not spoken of
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Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think we've been solved a part the
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Speaker 4: idea that everybody has this touchy fairly thing about clean
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Speaker 4: energy and a clean environment is all important. Great, But
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Speaker 4: anybody who's looked closely at what happens to the environment
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Speaker 4: in these in these places with what they're doing with
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Speaker 4: the wind turbines, and that's not environmentally friendly at all.
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Speaker 4: There's also this scenario about how the solar panels and
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Speaker 4: the wind turbines are made, you know, using our coal
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Speaker 4: in foreign countries that we buy back at you know,
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Speaker 4: an increased market rate. There's there are a layer upon
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Speaker 4: layer upon a layer of misinformation, disinformation about this whole
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Speaker 4: renewable renewable scenario. It's not it doesn't provide US national security,
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Speaker 4: national affordability, reliability. There's nothing about it. And for years
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Speaker 4: we have sort of sat back and let let it
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Speaker 4: all happen.
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Speaker 5: And I'm really.
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Speaker 4: Pleased to see that this story is actually getting some
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Speaker 4: more oxygen.
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Speaker 5: It's well overdue.
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Speaker 2: We're told Christy, we're going to be a renewable energy superpower,
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Speaker 2: but I can't see that happening without the government pretty
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Speaker 2: much funding the whole thing.
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Speaker 5: Well, the government funds it at the current time.
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Speaker 6: I mean, the government has just given millions of dollars
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Speaker 6: to Rio Tinto to put in a green hydrogen in Queensland. Now,
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Speaker 6: Rio Tinto makes a profit of they've got a market
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Speaker 6: cap of two hundred and forty billion. Taxpayers shouldn't pay
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Speaker 6: tens of millions of dollars for Rio Tinto, So the
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Speaker 6: federal government can give them a tick and say, look
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Speaker 6: at this wonderful green hydrogen example. But of course the
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Speaker 6: Australian taxpayer has funded it. Now, if it was commercially viable,
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Speaker 6: Rio Tinto would have taken some of their two hundred
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Speaker 6: and forty billion dollar market cap and fundedselves.
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Speaker 5: You know, we have to ask these questions.
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Speaker 6: The Australian taxpayer is funding large, very profitable companies to
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Speaker 6: accelerate the commercialization of this technology because they're not doing
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Speaker 6: it themselves.
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Speaker 5: Out of market demand.
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Speaker 2: The market manipulation in this sector is out of control.
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Speaker 5: And no one understands it. It's difficult.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's not that much transparency around it either. That's
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Speaker 2: why we don't understand it easily. Covered absolutely Christiy mcsweeny,
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Speaker 2: Colleen Harkn, thank you for your time tonight.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Vice President jd Vance has left Pakistan without a deal
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Speaker 2: between the US and Iran. Has been reported that peace
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Speaker 2: negotiations with the rogue regime fell apart after Tehran severely
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Speaker 2: misjudged what kind of leverage it held. A US official
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Speaker 2: told Fox News. Jd Vance found that Tehran thought they
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Speaker 2: held a strong hand going into negotiations, and no deal
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Speaker 2: can be achieved when one party is operating under the
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Speaker 2: delusion that they have all the leverage. Joining me now
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Speaker 2: for more on this as former Israeli government spokesperson Elon
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Speaker 2: Levy elon what are the chances of a lasting ceasefire
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Speaker 2: deal and what impact are President Trump's latest threats having
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Speaker 2: on ap still being struck?
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Speaker 8: Hello, Rita. Unfortunately, the Iranian regime has never been willing
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Speaker 8: to block its path to a nuclear weapon, and that's
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Speaker 8: exactly why this war happened in the first place. It
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Speaker 8: has never been willing to end uranium in enrichment, dismantle
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Speaker 8: its facilities, and surrender its highly enriched uranium under a mountain.
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Speaker 8: And this war started because the Iranian regime was trying
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Speaker 8: to rebuild its nuclear program and build enough ballistic missiles
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Speaker 8: to protect it so no one could stop it North
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Speaker 8: Korea style. It doesn't look like the Uranians realize just
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Speaker 8: how badly they've been thrashed. President Trump emphasizing they have
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Speaker 8: no cards. Their only cards will control over the Strait
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Speaker 8: of Hormuz, which the United States has now wrested from
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Speaker 8: them with its own counter blockade. So I think this
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Speaker 8: is the United States trying to force the Iranians into
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Speaker 8: accepting a deal that will end its triple threat to America,
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Speaker 8: Israel and its allies in the region, the missile threat,
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Speaker 8: the nuclear program, and the support for terrorist proxy armies.
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Speaker 8: But Rita, you know as well as anyone that an
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Speaker 8: Iranian regime that isn't threatening the region with missile, nuclear
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Speaker 8: weapons and proxy armies just isn't the same Iranian regime.
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Speaker 2: It's not. And yes, they have been decimated, but they
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Speaker 2: still are operating under this delusion that they have power
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Speaker 2: here and they are not submitting to the demands of
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Speaker 2: giving up their nuclear ambitions. What can be done about
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Speaker 2: that other than actually taking out the infrastructure, taking out
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Speaker 2: the electricity plants, their water supply. And it's something that
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Speaker 2: the US would not be wanting to do at this stage.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is something America's war planners are going to
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Speaker 8: have to consider to what extent the regime is rational.
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Speaker 8: And you know, if the regime does not respond to
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Speaker 8: rational incentives, if it can't be brought to a deal
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Speaker 8: by having its oil blockaded or military facilities destroyed, if
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Speaker 8: it doesn't accept conventional military defeat, well, I think that
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Speaker 8: shows why it was so important to stop the Range
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Speaker 8: regime getting a nuclear weapon in the first place. The
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Speaker 8: United States has a few tricks up its sleeve. There
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Speaker 8: is the counter blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. President
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Speaker 8: Trump has been speaking for a long time threatening Cag Island.
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Speaker 8: There was, of course, his threat against Iranian energy infrastructure,
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Speaker 8: which brought the Iranians to the table and agreeing to
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Speaker 8: negotiate when they didn't want to in the first place.
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Speaker 8: But the Iranians think they can buy time. And they
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Speaker 8: think they can buy time not only because of the oil,
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Speaker 8: but because they've been waging a very effective disinformation war
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Speaker 8: in the West that is dividing Western societies from within.
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Speaker 8: They see that they can use this war to turn
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Speaker 8: Western publics against their leaders and to cause a split
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Speaker 8: in the Western Alliance between the United States and its allies,
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Speaker 8: and so the Uranian regime thinks it has that asymmetric advantage,
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Speaker 8: and it's important that the whole Western world come together
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Speaker 8: to put maximum pressure on the Iranian regime instead of
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Speaker 8: trying to appease it and get an end of this
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Speaker 8: war that will allow it to continue possessing ballistic missiles,
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Speaker 8: retain a path to nuclear weapons, and continue supporting those
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Speaker 8: proxy forces that have brought so much chaos and violence
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Speaker 8: throughout the region.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can make the argument that Iran has succeeded
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Speaker 2: in sowing division in the West and hysteria too. You
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Speaker 2: look at some of the coverage of this conflict and
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Speaker 2: it is pretty much repeating Iranian state propaganda. How is
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Speaker 2: that impacting how this conflict is progressing?
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Speaker 8: I think the Uranians have been experts at manipulating American
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Speaker 8: public opinion. You only have to look at the tweets
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Speaker 8: coming out from their leaders with all the weird allusions
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Speaker 8: to Jeffrey Epstein and anti Semitic conspiracy theories to see
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Speaker 8: how they are pressing on all the most sensitive buttons
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Speaker 8: within American society. Knowing exactly how to sew division and
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Speaker 8: use this as a war of dis information and within
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Speaker 8: American societies. Unfortunately, we're seeing many people in the United
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Speaker 8: States who almost seem to be egging the administration to
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Speaker 8: lose because they hate Donald Trump that much. But this
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Speaker 8: isn't just a war of the Trump administration. This is
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Speaker 8: the United States understanding that the world's number one state
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Speaker 8: sponsor of terror cannot have nuclear weapons, cannot have a
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Speaker 8: path to nuclear weapons. And that's why this has to
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Speaker 8: end with zero uranium enrichment. All the enrichment facilities dismantled,
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Speaker 8: and that highly enriched uranium under a mountain in Iran surrendered,
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Speaker 8: so that they cannot build a nuclear weapon and cannot
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Speaker 8: attach a dirty bomb to one of those ballistic missiles.
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Speaker 2: Now, before you go, I just want to ask you
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Speaker 2: about Israel's battle with the Iran backed Hezbullah in Lebanon.
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Speaker 2: Israeli Prime Ministers of Benjamin Nishinyahu on Sunday said that
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Speaker 2: Israeli forces had eliminated the threat of an invasion by
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Speaker 2: Hezbollah militants. He said this during a visit to troops
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Speaker 2: in southern Lebanon. Ilon was that ever a genuine threat
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Speaker 2: were hers Bula planning a full scale invasion into Israeli territory.
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Speaker 8: Hezbola is not a terrorist organization, is a terrorist army,
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Speaker 8: And before October seventh, Hezbola's plan was to invade northern
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Speaker 8: Israel and capture villages in a pincer movement with hamas
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Speaker 8: that would have made the October seventh massacre look like
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Speaker 8: child's play. Hesbola dug tunnels into Israel through the mountains.
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Speaker 8: It stationed a terrorist army along Israel's border the same
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Speaker 8: size as Australia's standing army. That is the threat that
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Speaker 8: Israel was facing. You know, when I visited Australia two
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Speaker 8: years ago, I was told Australians traditionally think of the
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Speaker 8: warning time they have for a security threat in terms
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Speaker 8: of thirty years warning, because that's how long it would
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Speaker 8: take Indonesia to assemble the landing craft to invade Australia.
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Speaker 8: Israel found itself with an Iranian backed proxy army sitting
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Speaker 8: on the border, watching people on their front porches through binoculars.
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Speaker 8: So now Israel has created a narrow buffer zone inside
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Speaker 8: Lebanon that keeps Hezbolla away from the Israeli border and
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Speaker 8: gives Israeli families who've been sleeping in their bomb shelters.
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Speaker 8: The basic security that an Iranian bagged proxy army is
21:15
Speaker 8: not going to invade them like Hamas invaded the communities
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Speaker 8: near Gaza on October seventh, when they took so many
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Speaker 8: hostages and committed those barbaric acts of murder and sexual
21:26
Speaker 8: violence that can't happen on Israel's northern border anymore.
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Speaker 2: Elon Levy, thank you so much for your time tonight.
21:34
Speaker 8: Thank you, rita pleasure still to.
21:35
Speaker 2: Comet Lefty's losing air, plus the laters from the US,
21:39
Speaker 2: including President Trump's warning to China not to arm the
21:43
Speaker 2: Iranian regime. John Heindereika is up next. You're watching the
21:58
Speaker 2: Raider Pannehies Show, and it's time for Lefties losing ad.
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Speaker 2: Let's start in Canada, the thoroughly loopy land that is
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Speaker 2: overrepresented in the number of lefties losing it, including this woman.
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Speaker 2: She is Canadian, m p le a Gazan and here
22:14
Speaker 2: she drops several new pronouns. I'm not sure the ever
22:18
Speaker 2: expanding alphabet community was ready for this.
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Speaker 3: When the budget was released, I was shocked to find
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Speaker 3: out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting seven billion dollars
22:28
Speaker 3: between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations, they provided
22:34
Speaker 3: zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWGTWOSLGBTQQAA.
22:41
Speaker 3: Plus this is abhorrent, this is callous.
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Speaker 2: That of course stands for missing and murdered Indigenous women
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Speaker 2: girls to spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex
22:54
Speaker 2: and asexual people plus always the plus. That's fantastically but
23:00
Speaker 2: does it go far enough? Can we please try to
23:03
Speaker 2: be a little bit more inclusive and include the swltctwtiw
23:09
Speaker 2: gmiyocwmadc please And of course, unless you're some filthy bigot,
23:17
Speaker 2: you know that stands for slow walkers and loud talkers
23:20
Speaker 2: community together with Italians to get mad if you order
23:23
Speaker 2: coffee with milk after dinner community plus please, let's just
23:29
Speaker 2: try to be inclusive. Now to CNN, which has been
23:33
Speaker 2: hysterical for weeks now trying to whip up anti American
23:36
Speaker 2: sentiment and carrying on like Iran is winning the war.
23:41
Speaker 2: Here they get a little bit of a reality check
23:43
Speaker 2: from NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutter.
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Speaker 9: Is the world safer today than it was before the
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Speaker 9: war was started?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely because and this is thanks to a present of
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Speaker 1: trans leadership. Degrading these capabilities is really really very important
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Speaker 1: for your may safety here in the US, in Europe,
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: Jake Tappa did not like that answer, did he? Now?
24:07
Speaker 2: To one of the Democrats great white hopes, Eric Swalwell,
24:11
Speaker 2: remember it is a shallow talent pull on the left.
24:13
Speaker 2: Swalwell has come crashing down, suspending his campaign to be
24:17
Speaker 2: the next governor of California after a number of serious allegations,
24:22
Speaker 2: including four women describing sexual misconduct by the congressman, and
24:27
Speaker 2: that includes one former staffer who says he raped her.
24:31
Speaker 2: And now videos have come to light of the married
24:34
Speaker 2: congressman grabbing and forcibly kissing an alleged sex worker. It's
24:39
Speaker 2: all rather tawdry and a long long way from the
24:44
Speaker 2: carefully crafted image she has presented with the help of
24:48
Speaker 2: the leftist media.
24:50
Speaker 10: And I was a prosecutor in Oakland for seven years
24:52
Speaker 10: and it was very frustrating that many times it felt
24:55
Speaker 10: like the victims had none of the rights and the
24:59
Speaker 10: bad guys had all the rights.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Eric Swalwell, the man who allowed a Chinese spy
25:05
Speaker 2: into his inner sanctum, including his bed, was elevated by
25:09
Speaker 2: the media and allowed to lie and lie and lie
25:13
Speaker 2: without challenge. Here he is with the uniquely awful Jimmy
25:16
Speaker 2: Kimmel on the eve of the twenty twenty four election,
25:19
Speaker 2: claiming that a Trump win would be terrible for women
25:23
Speaker 2: and children and their bodies.
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Speaker 11: The consequences for everyone else, like women in their bodies,
25:28
Speaker 11: kids in their safety at school, you know, seniors and
25:31
Speaker 11: their healthcare. Like to him, it's just it's me, me, me, Democrats.
25:35
Speaker 11: Sometimes we stand too much on virtue and like modesty,
25:39
Speaker 11: and we think everything is a Harvard Law school mood
25:41
Speaker 11: court competition. But we just need to talk about this
25:44
Speaker 11: like it's a gut check to the regular folks and
25:47
Speaker 11: not make this so complicated.
25:49
Speaker 12: Just be real, say a lot of nasty things about
25:52
Speaker 12: you on Fox News and near your parents. That doesn't
25:55
Speaker 12: that upset them and make them go, I'm the ic
25:58
Speaker 12: that what they're saying is not true. I shouldn't believe
26:01
Speaker 12: anything else they say.
26:03
Speaker 2: The hood spot is off the charts. Yet the media
26:07
Speaker 2: allowed this creep to line in line lie without challenge,
26:10
Speaker 2: including pushing the debunked Russian collusion hoax. And to be clear,
26:16
Speaker 2: Swolwell's lies weren't limited to claims of collusion. He claimed
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Speaker 2: President Trump was a Russian asset.
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Speaker 13: You remember, Judiciary, Do you believe the president right now
26:26
Speaker 13: has been an agent of the Russians.
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Speaker 11: Yes, I think there's more evidence than it is.
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Speaker 10: Yes, And I think all the arrows point in that direction.
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Speaker 11: And I haven't seen a single piece of evidence that he's.
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Speaker 14: Not an agent like in the nineteen forties where we
26:36
Speaker 14: had people who are reds dey as an all terms
26:39
Speaker 14: like that.
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Speaker 7: Now that it's working for a fire and Pathan, he's
26:40
Speaker 7: working on behalf of the Russians.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Okay, the question has shifted from whether the president
26:45
Speaker 11: is working with the Russians to what evidence exists that
26:49
Speaker 11: the president is not working with the Russians.
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Speaker 15: At what point you'd draw the line and not accuse
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Speaker 15: of the President of the United States without any evidence
26:56
Speaker 15: of being an agent of Russia.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, he's betrayed our country.
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Speaker 11: And I don't say that lightly.
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Speaker 10: I worked as a prosecutor for seven years tonight.
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Speaker 15: Betraying the country. By the way, we want evidence before
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Speaker 15: you say that. But you said an agent of Russia.
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Speaker 11: He works on their behalf.
27:10
Speaker 15: I like hearing the evidence that he's an agent of Russia.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's pretty clear. It's almost hiding in
27:15
Speaker 10: plaint sight.
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Speaker 2: Hiding in plain sight. Yes, that appears to be how
27:18
Speaker 2: Swolwell operation. And now that these allegations have come to light,
27:22
Speaker 2: all sorts of folks are coming out of the woodwork
27:25
Speaker 2: saying that Swalwell's antiques were the worst kept secret in DC.
27:30
Speaker 2: Now Eric claims all these allegations are false, even the
27:34
Speaker 2: ones from former staffers. But let's judge Eric Swalwell by
27:37
Speaker 2: his own standards. Remember when he said.
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Speaker 11: This, what are the chances that three or four women
27:44
Speaker 11: independently who never met each other would have similar experiences
27:48
Speaker 11: with one person? So either ari this person committed these
27:52
Speaker 11: horrific acts or he is the single unluckiest person in
27:55
Speaker 11: the world for these people to conspire and make up
27:58
Speaker 11: lies against him. But it's a very hard case to make.
28:00
Speaker 11: The more allegations are coming.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in the Center for the American Experiment, president
28:06
Speaker 2: and co founder of the popular power Line blog, John Heindereicher.
28:11
Speaker 2: We will get to the conflict in the Middle East shortly,
28:13
Speaker 2: but first your thoughts on the Eric Swolwell saga. And
28:18
Speaker 2: we now have more than fifty former staffers calling on
28:21
Speaker 2: him to resign, and more allegations are coming to light,
28:26
Speaker 2: and also there's been a renewed focus on that entire
28:29
Speaker 2: infamous fang fang saga.
28:33
Speaker 14: Well, Rita, can Swarwell survive? I'd say he's already going down.
28:38
Speaker 14: Earlier today he announced that he was suspending his campaign
28:42
Speaker 14: for governor of California. Effectively, that means that he is
28:45
Speaker 14: withdrawing from the race, and now he's under a lot
28:48
Speaker 14: of pressure to resign from Congress. My guess, Rita, is
28:52
Speaker 14: that he will have to resign from Congress. And I
28:57
Speaker 14: think the most interesting thing about this whole story is
28:59
Speaker 14: something that you briefly referred to, and that is the
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Speaker 14: fact that we're now learning that many people knew all
29:05
Speaker 14: about Swalwell's conduct. It was notorious in Washington, d C.
29:11
Speaker 14: But it went unreported in the press because Swalwell is
29:15
Speaker 14: a Democrat and he has been one of the most
29:18
Speaker 14: vicious critics of President Trump. It's coming out now, everybody thinks, anyway,
29:24
Speaker 14: because he's one of something like eight Democratic candidates for
29:28
Speaker 14: governor of California, and the way their primary system works,
29:31
Speaker 14: that could be a real problem for the Democrats. And
29:33
Speaker 14: so I think there's an incentive now among the Democrats
29:37
Speaker 14: to winnow down that field and force a couple of
29:40
Speaker 14: people out.
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Speaker 7: Of the race.
29:43
Speaker 2: Well, before we move on from this issue, I've got
29:45
Speaker 2: to say this story has given us perhaps the best
29:48
Speaker 2: headline of the year so far, courtesy of the Neo
29:51
Speaker 2: Post that had this Eric Swalwell filmed rape denial video
29:56
Speaker 2: and lavish mansion of eccentric billionaire who is in a
30:00
Speaker 2: relationship with alleged honey trap burglar. There's a lot happening
30:04
Speaker 2: in that headline. John, you think he might even step
30:07
Speaker 2: down as a congressman. I mean, this is a fall
30:10
Speaker 2: from grace. This is a man who has well, he
30:12
Speaker 2: had hopes of being president one day.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, a lot of people have been calling for Swallwelter
30:19
Speaker 14: resigned from Congress. Frankly, I think he will. This has
30:22
Speaker 14: turned into a huge scandal for the Democrats. I think
30:24
Speaker 14: they will cut their losses by forcing him out.
30:29
Speaker 2: Now to the war against the Iranian regime, and JD.
30:32
Speaker 2: Vance delivered the bad news that no deal WI was
30:35
Speaker 2: struck with Iran's leadership.
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Speaker 9: We've been at it now for twenty one hours and
30:42
Speaker 9: we've had a number of substant discussions with the Iranians.
30:45
Speaker 9: That's the good news. The bad news is that we
30:48
Speaker 9: have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad
30:50
Speaker 9: news for a Ran much more than it's bad news
30:52
Speaker 9: for the United States of America. So we go back
30:54
Speaker 9: to the United States having not come to an agreement.
30:57
Speaker 9: We've made very clear what our redlines are, what things
31:00
Speaker 9: were willing to accommodate them on, and what things were
31:03
Speaker 9: not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that
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Speaker 9: as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen
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Speaker 9: not to accept our terms.
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Speaker 2: John other than attacking Iran's infrastructure, the water supply, electricity plans,
31:19
Speaker 2: what can the US do to make what is essentially
31:22
Speaker 2: a terrorist regime come to a reasonable agreement?
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Speaker 14: Well, Rita, I really don't think that a reasonable agreement
31:29
Speaker 14: should be the goal here. But when the campaign started,
31:32
Speaker 14: President Trump and others in the administration said that our
31:35
Speaker 14: goal was to degrade Iran's military capability to the point
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Speaker 14: where they can't be a threat to US or to
31:42
Speaker 14: others for some years to come. We've done that, no doubt.
31:46
Speaker 14: We could bomb some power plants and so forth. But
31:48
Speaker 14: I think the real loose end is the strait of
31:51
Speaker 14: horror moves, and in my opinion, once we have seen
31:55
Speaker 14: the straight reopened, we should end the campaign and go home.
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Speaker 2: The Vice President's given little insight into what some of
32:05
Speaker 2: these sticking points were, what the Iranian regime was rejecting
32:10
Speaker 2: in the piece still, but.
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Speaker 9: The simple fact is that we need to see an
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Speaker 9: affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon
32:18
Speaker 9: and they will not seek the tools that would enable
32:20
Speaker 9: them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the
32:23
Speaker 9: core goal of the President of the United States, and
32:25
Speaker 9: that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations. Again,
32:29
Speaker 9: their nuclear programs, such as it is, the enrichment facilities
32:33
Speaker 9: that they had before, they've been destroyed. But the simple
32:37
Speaker 9: question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will
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Speaker 9: for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not
32:44
Speaker 9: just now, not just two years from now, but for
32:46
Speaker 9: the long term. We haven't seen that yet.
32:48
Speaker 8: We hope that we will.
32:50
Speaker 2: Is that wishful thinking John expecting Iran to genuinely agree
32:55
Speaker 2: to that and stick to it? And how long is
32:58
Speaker 2: the Trump administration willing to stay in this conflict if
33:02
Speaker 2: Iran doesn't bend on that core demand.
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Speaker 7: Well, Rita.
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Speaker 14: The reality is that there is no one who can
33:08
Speaker 14: now speak effectively for the Iranian government. Its leaders as
33:13
Speaker 14: of a couple of months ago, are dead, and a
33:16
Speaker 14: promise not to develop nuclear weapons of the future would
33:19
Speaker 14: be worthless.
33:19
Speaker 7: We've heard that before.
33:21
Speaker 14: I don't think we're missing out on anything here, and
33:24
Speaker 14: I think that the administration can continue this campaign, can
33:28
Speaker 14: continue bombing as long as it wants to.
33:30
Speaker 7: But I think it's getting to.
33:32
Speaker 14: The point where the important targets have pretty well been destroyed.
33:37
Speaker 2: Now there's a power struggle to determine who controls the
33:41
Speaker 2: Strait of her Moost tell me about the threats and
33:44
Speaker 2: counter threats and what it all means for the oil
33:48
Speaker 2: shortages we're seeing around the world.
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Speaker 14: Well, Sentcom Central Command explained today Rita that we're not
33:56
Speaker 14: blockading the Strait of Horror moves. What we're doing is
33:59
Speaker 14: we are blockading as of tomorrow evening Iran's ports, and
34:04
Speaker 14: what that means is that anybody can use the Strait,
34:06
Speaker 14: but Iran can't ship any oil.
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Speaker 7: I think that's a great idea.
34:12
Speaker 14: It hurts two countries, Iran obviously because they can't get
34:15
Speaker 14: money by selling oil, but it also hurts China, which
34:18
Speaker 14: buys eighty percent of Iran's export at oil, So maybe
34:23
Speaker 14: China will now start putting pressure on the regime. The
34:27
Speaker 14: problem in the Strait obviously is that Iran may or
34:29
Speaker 14: may not have dropped some mines there, and that's why
34:32
Speaker 14: ships don't dare go through. We've got ships on the
34:35
Speaker 14: way to try to deal with those minds through underwater
34:38
Speaker 14: drones and so forth. Other countries might help as well.
34:42
Speaker 14: I think before long the strait is going to be open.
34:44
Speaker 14: I think the trade in oil is going to resume,
34:47
Speaker 14: and I don't think there's going to be a long
34:49
Speaker 14: term impact here on oil prices.
34:53
Speaker 1: Now.
34:54
Speaker 2: A lot of people were surprised that JD. Vans was
34:57
Speaker 2: sent to Pakistan to secure a de ILL. Many expected
35:01
Speaker 2: Secretary of State Mark Arrubio to be tasked with that role.
35:06
Speaker 2: Tell me why you think jdie Vance was the one
35:10
Speaker 2: who was sent. He is said to be possibly the
35:12
Speaker 2: least enthusiastic in this administration about the war, and yet
35:18
Speaker 2: he was given this important task.
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Speaker 14: I really don't know, reader. Maybe Rubio is busy working
35:24
Speaker 14: on something else. He wears a lot of hats. As
35:27
Speaker 14: you know, Trump probably knew that this negotiation wasn't going anywhere,
35:32
Speaker 14: so why not send Vance? Maybe Vance wanted to go
35:35
Speaker 14: to dispel rumors that he's at odds with Trump over
35:38
Speaker 14: this Iranian campaign.
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Speaker 7: It's really hard to say.
35:43
Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about what's left of the Iranian leadership.
35:47
Speaker 2: There are media reports today that the new Eyetola is
35:52
Speaker 2: not dead, has been suspected, but the Supreme Leader is
35:56
Speaker 2: recovering from severe facial and leg injury suffered in the
36:00
Speaker 2: air strike that killed his father. This is according to
36:03
Speaker 2: people close to he's inner circle. They claim the fifty
36:06
Speaker 2: six year old remains mentally sharp. John. But who do
36:11
Speaker 2: you think right now holds the power in Iran? Is
36:14
Speaker 2: it the IRGC leadership or the Supreme Leader.
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Speaker 7: Rita? They say he's mentally sharp.
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Speaker 14: We've heard that phrase before, haven't we.
36:25
Speaker 7: It didn't turn out to be true of Joe Biden.
36:28
Speaker 14: Know, there's no doubt that the IRGC is running the
36:30
Speaker 14: show in Iran and it's.
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Speaker 7: Going to stay that way.
36:33
Speaker 14: It suits their purposes to have a supposed Supreme Leader
36:37
Speaker 14: who in fact is disabled. And I think the days
36:40
Speaker 14: when an Ayatola was the top power in Iran are over.
36:44
Speaker 14: Going forward, I think Iran is going to be a
36:46
Speaker 14: straightforward military dictatorship.
36:50
Speaker 2: Now, President Trump has th threatened fifty percent tariffs on
36:54
Speaker 2: any nation that gives Iran military aid amid media reports
36:59
Speaker 2: are China might take a more active role in the
37:02
Speaker 2: wall listen to this.
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Speaker 13: But I hear news reports about China giving the shoulder missiles,
37:07
Speaker 13: what's called the shoulder missile anti aircraft missile. I doubt
37:11
Speaker 13: they would do that because they have a relationship, and
37:14
Speaker 13: I think they wouldn't do that. But maybe they did
37:16
Speaker 13: a little bit at the beginning, but I don't think
37:18
Speaker 13: they would.
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Speaker 4: Anyone know.
37:19
Speaker 13: But if we catch them doing that, they get a
37:21
Speaker 13: fifty percent tariff, which is a staggering That's a staggering amount.
37:26
Speaker 2: That is an interesting warning. And China does play a
37:30
Speaker 2: crucial role in this conflict, don't they. John They RAN's
37:35
Speaker 2: most powerful ally and they can exert a pressure on
37:39
Speaker 2: that regime.
37:41
Speaker 14: Yeah, I read as I mentioned. They buy eighty percent
37:43
Speaker 14: of the oil that a RAN experts. They're a hugely
37:46
Speaker 14: important customer for a Ramse economy. The threat of the
37:50
Speaker 14: fifty percent tariff might work. Who knows the legality of
37:53
Speaker 14: Trump's ability to impose tariffs like this is very much
37:56
Speaker 14: in doubt, but I think he's trying to get the
37:58
Speaker 14: Chinese to back off.
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Speaker 7: May very well work.
38:03
Speaker 2: Now a long way from the conflict in the Middle East.
38:06
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was at UFC three two seven in Miami.
38:10
Speaker 2: He entered the stadium with UFC owner Dana White and
38:14
Speaker 2: members of the Trump family, the forty.
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Speaker 14: Fifth and now forty seventh presidents of the United States
38:21
Speaker 14: of America, Donald Jack.
38:41
Speaker 2: And in scenes that will enrage the lefties, no doubt,
38:45
Speaker 2: we had fighter after fighter after their wins, paying tribute
38:49
Speaker 2: to the president, including Brazilian Paulo Costa. John that was
39:06
Speaker 2: a contender for the world's longest handshake. It went on
39:09
Speaker 2: for some time, and Costa reportedly told the president, thank
39:12
Speaker 2: you for doing what you're doing. I needed to tell
39:14
Speaker 2: you this. The UFC is where President Trump is among
39:19
Speaker 2: his people, isn't it, John, Whatever may be happening anywhere
39:22
Speaker 2: else in the world, that's his happy place.
39:26
Speaker 14: It really is Riata Data. Why you mentioned the owner
39:29
Speaker 14: of UFC is a close friend of Trump's. He gets
39:32
Speaker 14: rapturous welcomes from these UFC crowds, although to be fair,
39:36
Speaker 14: he does well in sports arenas generally, and by the way,
39:39
Speaker 14: to show us that Marco Rubio was also at that UFC.
39:42
Speaker 7: Yes, he was.
39:43
Speaker 14: I think they were sending a signal about how little
39:47
Speaker 14: concerned they were with the negotiations that were then going
39:51
Speaker 14: on in Pakistan.
39:53
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio was in fantastic form. He was throwing up
39:57
Speaker 2: hand signals and really having the time of his life. Now,
40:01
Speaker 2: let's talk about what I consider the most underreported story
40:05
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six. That is the manner in which
40:09
Speaker 2: the issue of illegal immigration in the US has been
40:11
Speaker 2: completely conquered. Listen to this latest DHS data.
40:17
Speaker 16: New DHS data show last month zero zero illegal immigrants
40:24
Speaker 16: released into the United States after being caught at the border. Now,
40:28
Speaker 16: that is down dramatically. Well, of course, it would be
40:31
Speaker 16: from seventy eight thousand released into our nation in March
40:34
Speaker 16: of twenty twenty four under President Biden. It also marks
40:38
Speaker 16: eleven street months of zero catch and releases, all with
40:42
Speaker 16: DHS unfunded through March.
40:47
Speaker 2: John That was the biggest issue leading up to the
40:51
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four election. We were told by many that
40:54
Speaker 2: this is an unsolvable crisis, nothing can really be done about.
40:59
Speaker 2: It was solved in record time, and then everyone seems
41:03
Speaker 2: to have forgotten about it. The fact that you can
41:05
Speaker 2: go from over seventy eight thousand to zero in the
41:09
Speaker 2: space of two years. How has this not been talked
41:12
Speaker 2: about more Reda.
41:14
Speaker 14: It's very frustrating for President Trump's supporters. This is an
41:18
Speaker 14: unbelievable success, and the press of the Democrats said it
41:22
Speaker 14: couldn't be done, and Trump made it happen so fast
41:25
Speaker 14: that he's really not getting much credit for it. He
41:27
Speaker 14: made it look too easy. Then it really is pretty
41:29
Speaker 14: frustrating to his supporters here in the United States.
41:33
Speaker 7: It's a tremendous achievement.
41:36
Speaker 2: John Heinderrecher, thank you so much for your time.
41:39
Speaker 7: Great to be with you, Rita.
41:41
Speaker 2: Still to come the latest royal and entertainment news, including
41:45
Speaker 2: outrageous antiques at Coachella twenty twenty six. Kinsey Schofield is
41:50
Speaker 2: up next Welcome Back Well. The first weekend of Coachella
42:04
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is wrapped up, headlined by the likes
42:07
Speaker 2: of Justin Bieber and Sabrina Carpenter. But it's the enormous
42:11
Speaker 2: costs for tickets that has got everyone talking. General admission
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Speaker 2: tickets start at five hundred and forty nine that's US,
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Speaker 2: with VIP tickets selling at just under twelve hundred dollars. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: if you've got to spare forty thousand US, you've got
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Speaker 2: to afford a premium single day suite. Joining me now
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Speaker 2: is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast, Kinsey, those
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Speaker 2: admission costs are enormous. Then you've got the cost of accommodation, transport,
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Speaker 2: food costs and lemonade can set you back seventeen dollars.
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Speaker 2: Is it worth it?
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Speaker 17: No Hologram Tupac this year, so I'm gonna have to
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Speaker 17: say not worth it. We used to be a proper country.
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Speaker 17: If you're a straight up pavo, I can offer you
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Speaker 17: a thirty dollars slice of pizza. But if that's not
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Speaker 17: your vibe, one hundred dollar cavia burger just matebe. But
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Speaker 17: unfortunately for these vendors, everyone's on ozembek, so there are
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Speaker 17: no food lines. No one's eating at Coachella.
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Speaker 2: Well this is zaves that be the only thing people
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Speaker 2: are saving money on is the food. But the alcohol
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Speaker 2: costs are quite astonishing in themselves. I've got to say,
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Speaker 2: you could not pay me to attend, and I had a
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Speaker 2: lot of people who are there this year, and no,
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Speaker 2: why would you want to be in the desert amongst
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Speaker 2: just all those people on the ground. Awful, awful, But
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Speaker 2: staying with Coachella at pop star and astronaut Katie Perry.
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Speaker 2: She was there with her new boyfriend Justin Trudeau, and
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Speaker 2: she seemed to be poking fun at Justin Bieber's performance
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Speaker 2: Throughout his set, beabs scroll through YouTube for versions of
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Speaker 2: his earlier music to sing along to.
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Speaker 1: Wi Fi.
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Speaker 2: You know what I've got you too well with apologies, Kinsey.
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Speaker 2: It's not too often you see a singer do a
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Speaker 2: duet with themselves, and Katie Perry seemed less than impressed.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps in a post to Instagram, she made this comment,
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Speaker 2: and that is Amiam Kinsey, what did you make of
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Speaker 2: Beebe's performance? It certainly has sparks of debate.
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Speaker 17: I've always loved Justin Bieber, but I'm not leaving my
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Speaker 17: house to watch Justin Bieber on YouTube. I've been watching
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Speaker 17: Justin Bieber on YouTube for almost twenty years. But Justin
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Speaker 17: Trudeau dressed like a drunk frat boy eating a thirty
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Speaker 17: dollars cup of noodles does interest me. When in your
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Speaker 17: life have you seen somebody that used to be the
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Speaker 17: prime minister? You know, slumming at a Coachella. It's blowing
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Speaker 17: my mind.
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Speaker 2: I've always called them a himbo. He is a male
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Speaker 2: bigbo and is now fulfilling that role. He is basically
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Speaker 2: turned into what he should have always been, not a
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Speaker 2: leader of a country, but just a bit of a
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Speaker 2: handbag for a former astronaut slash pop star. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to the Royal family now. Harry and Meghan was snapped
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Speaker 2: at a Netflix event in California over the weekend. The
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Speaker 2: couple are under renewed pressure, Kinsey, with Harry being sued
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Speaker 2: by his former charity center Bali for slander. This is
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Speaker 2: one year after resigned as its patron amid a battle
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Speaker 2: with the charities chairwoman, Kinzie, What more can you tell
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Speaker 2: me about this lawsuit?
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Speaker 17: Well, first of all, I'd say no one works harder
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Speaker 17: to clap back than Megan Markle and that's what those
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Speaker 17: unflattering Netflix images were her saying, We're not bothered by
45:55
Speaker 17: this new lawsuit that everyone's talking about. Santa Bala has
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Speaker 17: failed a defamation lawsuit against Harry. Court records reveal that
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Speaker 17: both Harry and then this is also his longtime associate
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Speaker 17: Mark Dyer. They're facing claims of libel and slander. If
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Speaker 17: the case goes to court, reader it could be the
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Speaker 17: first time Harry's version of events are officially challenged ever,
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Speaker 17: or he's held accountable for airing his grievances publicly. So
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Speaker 17: I think it's something for us to all, you know,
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Speaker 17: really stay focused on.
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Speaker 2: And it's a bit of a change of pace for him.
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Speaker 2: He's normally the one is normally the plaintiff in these lawsuits,
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Speaker 2: so for him to be on the other side, it's
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Speaker 2: going to be quite an experience if he gets that
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Speaker 2: far now. It's also been reported that Harry and Meghan
46:41
Speaker 2: are set to receive a cold reception when they arrive
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Speaker 2: in Australia this week, this time as private citizens. Their
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Speaker 2: first trip was in twenty eighteen and they were absolutely
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Speaker 2: welcomed warmly then by the public. But since they've exited
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Speaker 2: the Royal fan and all the ongoing circus we've been
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Speaker 2: subjected to Kinsey, I think they're going to find I
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Speaker 2: think mainly disinterest. I don't think they're going to get
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Speaker 2: any hostility, but just people have had enough of them.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it's fair to say the honeymoon period
47:15
Speaker 17: is over. Australians gave them a very warm welcome the
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Speaker 17: first time around, but a lot has happened since. When
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Speaker 17: you step away from royal duty and then repeatedly criticize it,
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Speaker 17: you can't assume the public is going to greet you
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Speaker 17: with the same enthusiasm.
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Speaker 7: So I agree with you.
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Speaker 17: I don't know if they will be booed on the streets,
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Speaker 17: but I certainly don't think that there are going to
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Speaker 17: be flocks of people, you know, needing that image of
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Speaker 17: Megan Markle in her wrinkled suit or whatever she decides
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Speaker 17: to wear, whatever beige color she decides to bring to Australia.
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Speaker 2: I know she addresses I like she just going on
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Speaker 2: safari when she's here, which I think I actually enjoy
47:55
Speaker 2: that change of pace. Now, pop star Brittney Spears is
47:59
Speaker 2: reportedly back in rehab to deal with substance abuse issues.
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Speaker 2: One source told tim Z she realizes she hit rock bottomkinse.
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Speaker 2: This comes as another bizarre video has come to light.
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Speaker 2: We've got used to these videos which she normally posts herself.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, the butt slapping video. I had to unfollow that
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Speaker 17: because it was just so uncomfortable when it comes to rehab,
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Speaker 17: one source said. Part of the reason she's going now
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Speaker 17: is because of repending dui case. She knows strategically this
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Speaker 17: will look good in front of the judge that she's
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Speaker 17: taking it seriously. But are you taking it seriously if
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Speaker 17: your participation is a legal strategy? I'm not so sure.
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Speaker 13: Now.
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Speaker 2: Reports have revealed that actress Blake Lively is currently pleading
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Speaker 2: with new courts to throw out news articles that paint
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Speaker 2: her in a negative light. Is reported that Lively believes
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Speaker 2: the article would influence the jury to draw adverse conclusions
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Speaker 2: about her character. Kinsey, do you think this is a
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Speaker 2: sound tactic by black Lively. She's made so many poor
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Speaker 2: choices in launching this action and in the way she's
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Speaker 2: managed the media.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 17: According to reports, it's the mean girl language of some
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Speaker 17: of the articles that she loathed. She's afraid that would
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Speaker 17: taint the jury because they would cling to that girl.
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Speaker 17: If the shoe fits, she might just want to look
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Speaker 17: in the mirror. Because if we are taking away anything
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Speaker 17: from the chaos that is Lively versus Baldoni, it's that
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Speaker 17: Blake Lively might not be a very nice person whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: Well, her standing as a Hollywood star has really fallen.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the only person I can think of in
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Speaker 2: recent years who's had such a fall would be will Smith.
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Speaker 2: Was such a darling and now you can't talk about
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Speaker 2: her without thinking about this case and her mean girl status.
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Speaker 17: It's negatively affected. I think it's negatively affected her in Hollywood.
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Speaker 17: I have heard that she has a new job coming up.
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Speaker 17: I believe it's a rom com and yeah, congratulations, you
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Speaker 17: booked the gig. That does not mean you're going to
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Speaker 17: get butts in seats. I think that the studio will
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Speaker 17: be extremely disappointed by the box office for the upcoming
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Speaker 17: Bak Lively projects because the reality is people are just
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Speaker 17: not interested in supporting her anymore.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey Schofield, thank you so much for your time, and
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Speaker 2: that's all the time we have tonight. Newsnight is up
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Speaker 2: next