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Full Show Podcast: 05 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues these aviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
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Speaker 2: It'd be.
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Speaker 3: It's combody to you. Welcome into the program. I'm Andrew
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Speaker 3: Dickens broto In the next hour, it's getting to squeaky
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Speaker 3: bum time in the ferry debate. So what we're breaking
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Speaker 3: our deal with Hyundai really cost us. We'll have that
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Speaker 3: story for you in five. Wayne Brown, the Aukha mayor
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Speaker 3: wants congestion charges. How do rogue carriers feel about that?
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Speaker 3: We'll have that story in ten. How do you feel
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Speaker 3: about that? You could text me ninety two ninety two
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Speaker 3: the guy who played Dirty fay Ed and the Crown
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Speaker 3: is being spoken to by police after comments about Palestine.
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Speaker 3: Gavin Gray from the UK on that and the big
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Speaker 3: world story, Trump pulls all defense aid from Hukraine. We're
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Speaker 3: going to be talking to Marco Rubio's former campaign manager
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Speaker 3: just before six. We'll have correspondence from around the world
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Speaker 3: and around New Zealand and news as it break. And
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Speaker 3: of course you can text anytime you're like ninety two
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Speaker 3: ninety two is the number of small charge applies, or
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Speaker 3: you can email me Dickens at news talk setb dot
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Speaker 3: co dot nz. It's seven up to five the agenda
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Speaker 3: and it's Wednesday, the fifth of March, and the trade
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Speaker 3: war continues. China and Canada have hit back as Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump's twenty five percent tariffs on imports from Canada and
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Speaker 3: a ten percent levy against China begins today, and China
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Speaker 3: has vowed to fight the US to the bitter end,
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Speaker 3: announcing up to fifteen percent tariffs on a range of
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Speaker 3: American products, and Canada has outlined twenty five percent tariffs
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Speaker 3: against billions of dollars of US goods. Mexico also will
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Speaker 3: join the fray. They will now have twenty five percent
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Speaker 3: tariffs from today. Mexico President Claudia Sinbaum Pado says she
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Speaker 3: will announce Mexico's retaliatory tariffs on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: It's going to be very costly for people to take
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Speaker 4: advantage of this country. They can't come in and steal
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Speaker 4: our money and steal our jobs, and take our factories
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Speaker 4: and take our businesses and expect not to be punished.
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Speaker 4: And they're being punished by tariffs. It's a very powerful
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Speaker 4: weapon that politicians haven't used because they were either dishonest, stupid,
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Speaker 4: or paid off in some other forum.
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Speaker 3: And now we're using a yes you are. And the
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Speaker 3: Dale Jones fell seven hundred and sixty points over night
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Speaker 3: while you were sleeping. It also fell six hundred and
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Speaker 3: fifty points on Monday. This will have a big impact.
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Speaker 3: And those aren't the only countries, by the way, annoyed
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Speaker 3: with the United States, of course, Ukraine's Prime minister says
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Speaker 3: his country is firmly determined to continue cooperating with Washington.
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Speaker 3: This is after President Trump paused or military aid. Denis Shimhal,
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Speaker 3: who we don't hear from very often, the prime minister says,
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Speaker 3: Kiev is ready to sign a deal. They will give
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Speaker 3: the United States access to the Ukraine's deposits of rare
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Speaker 3: earth minerals. We're in contact every day with the US
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Speaker 3: administration and Congress, and this conversation will continue and I'm
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Speaker 3: sure we will achieve peace in Ukraine. Meanwhile, EU Chief
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Speaker 3: Urshula vonder Layan says Europe is in an era of
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Speaker 3: rearmament and is ready to step up on defence.
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Speaker 5: And Europe is ready to massively boost its defense spending,
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Speaker 5: both to respond to the short term urgency to act
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Speaker 5: and to support Ukraine, but also to address the long
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Speaker 5: term need to take on more responsibility for our own
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Speaker 5: European security.
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Speaker 3: And finally from home some news from home. Parliament yesterday
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Speaker 3: in the House debated Andrew Bailey's resignation and the government
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Speaker 3: under fire by labor for covering up the incident. And
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Speaker 3: he's a response by National Bay of Plenty MP Tom Rutherford.
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Speaker 2: A fighter the how many chances was she given? How
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Speaker 2: long did that investigation take? Michael Wood? How many opportunities
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Speaker 2: was he given from the Cabinet Office to get rid
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Speaker 2: of his shares? Seventeen times?
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Speaker 6: Kitty Allen in a.
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Speaker 2: Diabolical situation, there go rab Shama, who remembers Dr Goraz
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Speaker 2: the Shama drama. So I would say the Member's officer,
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Speaker 2: do not throw stones if you are in glasshouses.
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Speaker 3: Oh, happy days and great memories. It's now ten minutes
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Speaker 3: after five.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on an early edition with one roof to
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Speaker 1: make your property surge, simple youth dog Zibby So.
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Speaker 3: A week on from his waffle fest on the Mike
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Speaker 3: Hosking Breakfast, the Prime Minister has returned from Vietnam with
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Speaker 3: a bit of conservative fire in his belly and yesterday
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Speaker 3: on Mike's show, his comment on free school lunches was
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Speaker 3: pretty punchy. He said, basically, if you don't like it,
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Speaker 3: make a mar mite sandwich and an apple and put
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Speaker 3: it in a box. It's what previous generations did. And
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Speaker 3: he's right. I growing up had one honey sandwich and
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Speaker 3: one jam sandwich and an apple cut in half every
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Speaker 3: day for thirteen years, one half of the apple for
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Speaker 3: morning tea, the other half for afternoon playtime. I appear
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Speaker 3: to survive, and I got an education on the subject
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Speaker 3: of free school lunches, so it must be on its
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Speaker 3: last legs. So the funding for this thing partly came
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Speaker 3: from the COVID Emergency Fund, and by partly I say
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Speaker 3: half a billion dollars worth. So the money obviously has
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Speaker 3: a limited timeframe because I don't know if you've noticed
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Speaker 3: there's no more COVID. Well, if there is, we don't
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Speaker 3: worry about it. And even if it was slightly successful,
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Speaker 3: the future is pre curious because we don't have the
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Speaker 3: money and there is a problem with the entire framework
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Speaker 3: of our social spending that you can see in the
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Speaker 3: free lunches. So Labour believed in generality that means if
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Speaker 3: one person got it, everybody got it. And it's in
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Speaker 3: most of our policy framework to be fair. So if
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Speaker 3: one kid was starving in school, then all kids at
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Speaker 3: that school should get a meal. Or if you're sixty
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Speaker 3: five and unable to make ends meet with no employment,
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Speaker 3: you get a pension, but then everyone gets that pension,
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Speaker 3: whether you need it or not. That's generality. The opposite
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Speaker 3: ideology is social investment, and that is the corterstone of
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Speaker 3: former National leader Bill English's positions. With social investment, you
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Speaker 3: identify the people with need and only help them. It's
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Speaker 3: called an investment because it should lift the poor up
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Speaker 3: and make the more productive in our economy. Bill ran
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Speaker 3: on that platform in the election that he eventually lost
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Speaker 3: to Jacinda Adurance, so he never did it. The New
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Speaker 3: National has talked about it from time to time, but
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Speaker 3: they've never done it. And I was just thinking it
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Speaker 3: might help them if maybe they gave Vilingas a call
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Speaker 3: and maybe got his notes from last time and got
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Speaker 3: him to help them actually make something happen. Andrew Dickens,
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Speaker 3: here's a name you don't know but you should. His
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Speaker 3: name is James Harrison Jim. He's an Australian known as
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Speaker 3: the man with the Golden Arm because he has saved
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Speaker 3: so many babies with his blood donation. Well, he's died
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Speaker 3: aged eighty eight, so in his lifetime, Jim rolled up
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Speaker 3: and sieved more than eleven hundred times to give plasma,
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Speaker 3: which was then used in two point four million doses
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Speaker 3: of a medication to save at risk newborn babies. Jim's
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Speaker 3: blood was special because it contained a rare and precious
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Speaker 3: antibody essential to make anti D injections. Now, ANTID injections
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Speaker 3: control a disease that occurs when blood types of a
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Speaker 3: mother and the baby are incompatible that can result a miscarriage,
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Speaker 3: still worth in other conflications, So Jim's blood made the
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Speaker 3: anti D and it saved babies lives. Jim first donated
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Speaker 3: blood in nineteen fifty four. He apparently never missed a
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Speaker 3: fortnightly appointment. He was still giving blood in his eighties.
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Speaker 3: He was inspired because he underwent lung surgery as a
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Speaker 3: fourteen year old and got many blood transfusions. So he said, right,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to do the whole thing. Another reason I'm
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Speaker 3: telling you this story is because Jim Harrison's a great man,
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Speaker 3: the man with the Golden arm and that he's died
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Speaker 3: and that is very sad. But he donated blood and
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Speaker 3: maybe you should be donating blood as well, because you
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Speaker 3: never know yours might be as special as James Harrison's
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Speaker 3: Andrew Dickens. Whenstym Peters is talking to Mike Hosting later
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Speaker 3: today around about seven thirty five, all are about the fairies.
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Speaker 3: So we've found out just how much is going to
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Speaker 3: cost to break the contract. So could it cost more?
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Speaker 3: We're going to talk in a few moments time to
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Speaker 3: the Rail of Maritime Transport Union General secretary the fairies
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Speaker 3: squeaky bum time. It is five fourteen the.
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Speaker 1: First word on the News of the Day Early edition
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Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and One Room, Make Your Property Search
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Speaker 1: and simple News Talk Zippy.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. The time is
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Speaker 3: now five p seventeen. Wayne Browners said he wants congestion
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Speaker 3: charges on Auckland's motorways. They might be coming to other
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Speaker 3: cities as well. How do you feel about this? You
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Speaker 3: can text me two ninety two. We're going to be
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Speaker 3: talking about this in a few moments time. Meanwhile, to
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Speaker 3: the Fairies and new documents reveal three hundred million dollars
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Speaker 3: was set aside by the government to cover its broken
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Speaker 3: ferry bill contract with Yundai. Even if Yundai land the
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Speaker 3: new deal to build two smaller ferries, the bill will
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Speaker 3: still have to be paid out. Todd Wolster is rail
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Speaker 3: the Maritime Transport Union General Secretary and has worken up
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Speaker 3: early for us Coombonding to you, Todd's three hundred million,
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Speaker 3: is that all?
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Speaker 6: I think it's undercut. There's a lot more than three
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Speaker 6: hundred million. I think they're playing the under sums there.
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Speaker 3: What are they missing out?
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Speaker 6: Well, there's three hundred million under the ethers and nothing
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Speaker 6: not recognizing the costs that have already been put into
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Speaker 6: to procure these these theories, the two large theories. So's
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Speaker 6: there's many more millions that have been spent, Okay, made
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Speaker 6: billion dollars or even more.
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Speaker 3: Okay, easy to throw around those words. But yes, I
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Speaker 3: understand these ships where to cost five hundred and fifty
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Speaker 3: one million dollars and now we've got three hundred million
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Speaker 3: to break that. But the pole project would cost three
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Speaker 3: point five billion, possibly even four by Now that's because
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Speaker 3: of the wharfside cost. Can you tell me why no
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Speaker 3: one talks about the wolf side cost, which is the
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Speaker 3: biggest part of this whole thing, and we'll still have
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Speaker 3: to happen.
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Speaker 6: Oh I think we still do. Just talk about it. Yeah, yeah, no,
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Speaker 6: it's maybe it's been played down. But the ambition by
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Speaker 6: the KI, I suppose was a bit high and it
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Speaker 6: was a one hundred year assidet. You know, the existing
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Speaker 6: infrastructure is probably fifty years old or less and needing
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Speaker 6: to be replaced, so they probably went a bit too
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Speaker 6: far on that side of things. And there was a
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Speaker 6: lots of debate about where there was going to be
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Speaker 6: in Wellington, whether it was going to be close to
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Speaker 6: the railway station or income the existing.
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Speaker 7: Far fire.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, talking about it, but yeah, it's all these are.
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Speaker 6: There's tenths on both sides, so they need to be reposed.
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Speaker 3: Wolves are on an earthquake for a fault, and they're
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Speaker 3: sixty years old and they're going to need something. So
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about that later. In your opinion, did the
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Speaker 3: government rush to cancel the ferries.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I don't think there was much thought put on
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Speaker 6: it at all, even the way that they canceled the ferries,
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Speaker 6: and I think it was by text message to High
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Speaker 6: and Dive before it was announced. A couple of hours later,
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Speaker 6: so the public was totally disrespectful. I think what is
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Speaker 6: good is that at least part of the Coalition has
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Speaker 6: gone to career and spoken to with the shipbuilders. The
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Speaker 6: Prime Minister didn't and certainly the Minister of Finance didn't,
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Speaker 6: but at once to have all right.
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Speaker 3: Three months after the deal was canceled, the Ministerial Advisory
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Speaker 3: Group appointed by Nikola Willis told her that she should
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Speaker 3: urgently renegotiate the contract. She didn't. Was that a mistake?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Even the Nisterary Advisory Group was sort of geared
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Speaker 6: to be to what Nikola calls rail compatible, which is
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Speaker 6: like weird, everything is rail compatible. You can take fright
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Speaker 6: and put it on a push bite if you like.
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Speaker 6: But as far as rail enabled, which is what New
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Speaker 6: zeal needs, that's that's that's the main thing.
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Speaker 3: I was going to ask you, are you a roll
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Speaker 3: on roll off guy, a rail enabled guy, or a
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Speaker 3: rail compatible guy.
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Speaker 6: Rail compatible is ridiculous, is what New Zella needs. It's
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Speaker 6: completely inefficient to taking freight off wagons and putting it
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Speaker 6: onto the little trucks and doing the same at the
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Speaker 6: other end. It's it's it's yeah, all right, it's not
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Speaker 6: even safe.
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Speaker 3: Really, Todd, I thank you for your time today. Todd
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Speaker 3: Volster from the Maritime Transport Union. It's News Talks. It
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Speaker 3: be oh yeah, we're talking about the congestion charges next.
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Speaker 3: I'm getting a lot of texts just going no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: absolutely no congestion charges. Well, keep those texts flying in
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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about this in a few moments time
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Speaker 3: with a guy from the National Road Carriers.
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Speaker 3: It be good morning. It is five twenty three. So
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Speaker 3: congestion apparently costs Orchander's two point six billion dollars every
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Speaker 3: year and certainly, and that's by twenty twenty six, that
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Speaker 3: US next year. Obviously, this is according to a report
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Speaker 3: that Wayne Brown the Man has commissioned, and he's calling
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Speaker 3: for a time of use charge to manage demand on
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Speaker 3: Auckland's roads. We know those as congestion charges. The city
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Speaker 3: has the worst congestion of any city in New Zealand
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Speaker 3: or Australia. Apparently people are spending twenty nine million hours
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Speaker 3: a year sitting in traffic. It's National Road Carriers Association
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Speaker 3: see justin Tiger Business with me Hala justin Morning Andrew.
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Speaker 3: How would road carriers feel about the congestion charges? Would
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Speaker 3: they welcome them if they get all the unnecessary cars
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Speaker 3: out of the system.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, look, that's right. National Road Carriers supports. Time of
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Speaker 8: use is a valid tool and the tilkit for tackling congestion.
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Speaker 8: It's a major issue in Auckland, and I think the
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Speaker 8: win we'd be looking for out of time of use
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Speaker 8: in the city like Auckland is to peer back to
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Speaker 8: something like school holiday level traffic. I think that's around
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Speaker 8: about six percent reduction. And then what that enables for
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Speaker 8: track drivers is they can get their fits through faster
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Speaker 8: and they could probably do more turns in a day
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Speaker 8: and more runs in a day as well. So certainly
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Speaker 8: they support it as long as the pricing is price drip.
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Speaker 3: Is there too much attention paid on, say a new
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Speaker 3: harbour crossing when we come to wanting to fix our
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Speaker 3: problems when the problems are actually in other parts of
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Speaker 3: the motorways and also in the roads that the council controls.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Look, it's all a system that has to be managed
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Speaker 8: in cohesion. So for Auckland, harbor crossing. What's really critical
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Speaker 8: is that we have a second crossing put in place
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Speaker 8: so there's resilience. When you've got an older structure and
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Speaker 8: one that's having to be closed because it's too windy
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Speaker 8: or winds lanes shut down, we need extra resilience there.
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Speaker 8: There's no question in the level of traffic on the
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Speaker 8: motorway needs that getting it in the right place would
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Speaker 8: help congestion. But yeah, look Andrew, you're right, there's other
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Speaker 8: parts the motorway that need actually widening. And we have
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Speaker 8: three lanes narrow down to Poo which we've all enjoyed
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Speaker 8: on away getting out of Auckland. They need to be
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Speaker 8: addressed as well, and that will have a major factor
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Speaker 8: in terms of improving congestion.
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Speaker 3: All right, justin we'll wait to see what happens and
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Speaker 3: whether this really does occur. Certainly, I was driving around
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Speaker 3: in a rush hour yesterday and the problem wasn't on
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Speaker 3: the motorways, my god. It was in Wirail Road, it
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Speaker 3: was in Lake Roads, it was everywhere. It's suburban and
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Speaker 3: a little bit on the motorways as well. Good luck.
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Speaker 3: It is our five twenty eight. This is News Talk
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Speaker 3: shit B. So did you hear the disappointment oozing out
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Speaker 3: of that maritime union guy I just spoke to when
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Speaker 3: we find out, of course, the break fee for the
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Speaker 3: inter island ferries will be around three hundred million Hurricans.
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Speaker 3: It's more like a billion, But that recon felt like
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Speaker 3: a reckon, if you know what I mean. The fairies,
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Speaker 3: by the way, only cost five hundred and fifty one
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Speaker 3: million dollars, so three hundred MILI. That's sixty percent of
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Speaker 3: the cost of the ferries just to break the contract.
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Speaker 3: So if we do accept that a billion dollars has
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Speaker 3: been spent on nothing at all, it's making labours light
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Speaker 3: rail fiasco look trivial. The union guy caught all the
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Speaker 3: situation Nikola Willis's mistake, and I have to say I agree.
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Speaker 3: She is hoping to be remembered as the savior of
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Speaker 3: the economy, but she will never escape this billion dollar
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Speaker 3: boat botch up. A botch up she jumped into because
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Speaker 3: I think she just wanted to strike a blow against
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Speaker 3: labor and they're spending. And also Kiwi Rail, who seem
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Speaker 3: to think the government is an open bank. Winston Peters
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Speaker 3: is rushing to patch things up. We always seem to
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Speaker 3: forget what the real cost of the project is. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: five hundred and fifty mili on some boats, but it's
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Speaker 3: the wharves and more particularly the Wellington woves. They need
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Speaker 3: to be renovated. They need to be earthquake strengthened, they
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Speaker 3: need to be future proofed. We need to decide if
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Speaker 3: they need rail infrastructure at all so we can roll
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Speaker 3: a train on a ship or do we have a
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Speaker 3: terminal where we swap off over the cargo. We need
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Speaker 3: to decide the capacity of the terminals. And these are
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Speaker 3: all questions that never make the public decay. It was
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Speaker 3: a three to four billion dollar project. The boats are
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Speaker 3: only five hundred and fifty mili of that. So where's
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Speaker 3: the debate on all the rest? And as we wait
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Speaker 3: for Winston's grand answer to this three billion dollar question,
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Speaker 3: I hope he will cover those issues as much as
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Speaker 3: the floating stock. And speaking of which, Winston Peters is
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Speaker 3: giving us an update at seven thirty five this morning
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Speaker 3: on the Mike Hosking Breakfast. He won't make it an
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Speaker 3: announcement because he's got to the end of March and
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Speaker 3: you know he's come into this late. But we will
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Speaker 3: hopefully find out where we might stand in just a
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Speaker 3: few bothers time and still to come, We're going to
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Speaker 3: find out where America feels about Ukraine. And this is
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Speaker 3: early edition. I'm Andrew Dickens. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and One Roof. To make your property search
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Speaker 1: simple when you talk, said be.
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Speaker 4: Julie, Joan, Joan, Please don't take him just because you care.
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Speaker 3: Dolly, good one to you. I'm Drew Dickens and for
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, missus, Dolly Parton and Joe Lean. Broke my
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Speaker 3: heart yesterday to hear that Dolly Parton's husband has died.
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Speaker 3: His name's Carl Dean. He died on Tuesday. He was
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Speaker 3: eighty two. Dean was a retired asphalt paver, and he
18:22
Speaker 3: famously met Dolly outside the Wishy Washy laundromat in the day.
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Speaker 3: She moved to Nashville and she was just eighteen. The
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Speaker 3: couple enjoyed nearly sixty years of marriage together. She wrote
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Speaker 3: her Great Love songs all about Carl Dean's Now. I
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Speaker 3: was lucky enough to interview Dolly. Once we were scheduled
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Speaker 3: for a ten minute chat, we spoke for over thirty.
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Speaker 3: She was so giving and so chatty and so open,
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Speaker 3: and much of it, though, was about her life with
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Speaker 3: her husband, Karl. She called her husband shy and quiet,
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Speaker 3: and their love was so sweet and good. And you'd
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Speaker 3: have to say the opposite's truly a trap, because she went,
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Speaker 3: she's not shy, not really. It was a beautiful, beautiful
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Speaker 3: relationship and now it's over. And in these days of
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Speaker 3: marital discord against amongst celebrities, Dolly and Carl's love I
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Speaker 3: think was a beacon for us all to admire. It's
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Speaker 3: twenty two.
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Speaker 1: To six Andrew dickas.
19:20
Speaker 3: Let's go around New Zealand. Callen Prokton joins us from Otago.
19:22
Speaker 3: How they callum morning, Andrew. The police need help finding
19:26
Speaker 3: a couple of people missing.
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Speaker 9: Look they do.
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Speaker 10: The first is a sixty five year old woman, Penelope.
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Speaker 10: She was last seen here in central Dunedin on Friday
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Speaker 10: and didn't board her flight back to Topol on the
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Speaker 10: Saturday and hasn't been seen or heard from since. She
19:42
Speaker 10: was wearing a blue floral top capri pants when she
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Speaker 10: was last seen, and police also are asking for the
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Speaker 10: public's help to find Joshua Jeets last still so seen
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Speaker 10: in Dunedin, but back in December he was thought to
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Speaker 10: be heading back to christ Church. Anyone with information urged
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Speaker 10: to contact police. How's Doneda's with clearing to find? This morning,
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Speaker 10: a high fifteenth class Jowe.
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Speaker 3: Joined us some Cratich. Hello, Claire, Hello, so there's a
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Speaker 3: group of Contabrians who want to buy some land for
20:08
Speaker 3: the public.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is pretty cool, Andrew. This is a piece
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Speaker 11: of land on Banks Peninsula. The Lebon's Bay Conservation Trust
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Speaker 11: has been working for some time now to raise four
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Speaker 11: hundred and fifty thousand dollars in order to buy thirty
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Speaker 11: nine hectares to turn into a reserve. They only have
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Speaker 11: a final twenty thousand dollars left to raise. They're being
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Speaker 11: helped along too by a donor who will match every
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Speaker 11: dollar until that goal is reached. The Lebon's Bay Conservation
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Speaker 11: Trust at chairperson Matthew McDonald says the fundraising effort is
20:39
Speaker 11: testament to the people who can see the vision for
20:41
Speaker 11: this project. He says it's not necessarily about now, but
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Speaker 11: in one hundred years time when people will see the
20:48
Speaker 11: benefit of what was started today.
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Speaker 3: Good stuff, Thank you for your contribution. And what's your weather?
20:54
Speaker 11: Cloudy Period's a few showers today then clearing this afternoon
20:58
Speaker 11: for fine spells southerlyes high only.
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Speaker 3: Fifteen Maxtel joins us from Weillington, HIMX.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
21:04
Speaker 3: How's the what where are we to do with the Wellington
21:07
Speaker 3: Water dub buckle?
21:09
Speaker 9: Yeah? Look, we went to Fulton Hogan yesterday, the company
21:14
Speaker 9: that does most of that external pipework maintenance. They wouldn't comment,
21:18
Speaker 9: no statement. They just said they'd leave it to Wellington
21:20
Speaker 9: Water to respond, which was a little surprising considering you've
21:23
Speaker 9: got Mayor Torrifano and others very publicly saying that Wellington
21:27
Speaker 9: ratepayers have been ripped off by these bloated deals and
21:31
Speaker 9: contracts that Wellington Water had signed as well. It's clear
21:34
Speaker 9: Wellington Water is shouldering most of the blame, a completely
21:36
Speaker 9: disorganized agency with the lack of oversight. But what about
21:40
Speaker 9: those on the other side of those deals. You've got
21:41
Speaker 9: the Commerce Commission now investigating potential unlawful conduct by those contractors.
21:48
Speaker 9: I can tell you off the record, I've been told.
21:50
Speaker 9: A lot of people are still waiting to receive the
21:51
Speaker 9: full report. All we've seen to this point is a
21:54
Speaker 9: summary of the accusations. You've got mayors in the region
21:58
Speaker 9: unreservedly apologizing the rate payers. Would corporates need to as.
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Speaker 3: Well more to come absolutely, and I'm sure those corporates
22:04
Speaker 3: are auto ratepayers and so they're ripping themselves off. So
22:07
Speaker 3: there's a bit of cammer. How's your weather.
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Speaker 9: Mostly cloudy with a few showers and more strong Southerlys
22:13
Speaker 9: are high of only fifteen in central.
22:15
Speaker 3: And I think you Neva Rettimano from Auckland, Hello morning.
22:18
Speaker 3: There's a couple of Pack and Save supermarkets in trouble.
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Speaker 13: Pack and Save yes under the spotlight. So the Commerce
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Speaker 13: Commission is taking two Pack and Saved supermarkets to court
22:26
Speaker 13: claiming they had misleading special So Business Desk is reporting
22:30
Speaker 13: that charges have been laid against this is Pack and
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Speaker 13: Saved Silverdale and Auckland peck and Save Mill Street that's
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Speaker 13: in Hamilton, so that those charges can be laid in
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Speaker 13: the Auckland District Court. It alleges inaccurate pricing also misleading
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Speaker 13: special so you know, obviously they may have breached the
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Speaker 13: fair trading.
22:45
Speaker 3: Eat how's Hawkin's weather fine?
22:48
Speaker 13: Actually southerlyst twenty threes are high.
22:50
Speaker 3: And the big orchand issue at the motor is congestion charges.
22:53
Speaker 3: We did an interview about fifteen minutes ago. If you
22:55
Speaker 3: missed it, you should get up earlier. There's the road
22:57
Speaker 3: carriers who actually want it to come in because they
22:59
Speaker 3: want off the road. I've been asking you, how do
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Speaker 3: you feel about it? The text are are coming in
23:04
Speaker 3: and saying no. But that's self interest, don't you think.
23:06
Speaker 3: Jeff writes that Auckland's problem is that there is no
23:09
Speaker 3: alternative option than to drive cars. Most growing cities in
23:12
Speaker 3: the world have a circular route around the city. They
23:14
Speaker 3: have comprehensive rail options. We have neither. We are now
23:17
Speaker 3: intensifying housing and clogging up local roads also, so the
23:20
Speaker 3: whole thing has not been done. Well well done, Jeff,
23:22
Speaker 3: thank you for your text. And Johannes says government just
23:26
Speaker 3: keep on talking about about it, just build it like
23:29
Speaker 3: Australia did. Let's talk about actually that with Australia. Sydney
23:34
Speaker 3: built a ten lane harbor Bridge and their entire They
23:37
Speaker 3: started their underground rail network in the nineteen thirties. In
23:41
Speaker 3: the nineteen thirties, that's when the population of Sydney was
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Speaker 3: one million. Yet every time Auckland has talked about doing something,
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Speaker 3: they've said, oh, we're too small. Well Sydney didn't think it,
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Speaker 3: and look what happened in the future they coped. We
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Speaker 3: have the worst congestion in all of Australasia in Auckland,
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Speaker 3: and the other cities like Toronger and Wellington are catching
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Speaker 3: up now. JD Vance called the United Kingdom Army useless. Essentially.
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Speaker 1: En z International Correspondence with ZI Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 3: It's thirteen to six. Kevin Gray out of the UK.
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Speaker 3: Good oning to you, Kevin hither so jd Vance, the
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Speaker 3: US Vice President has basically called the UK a random
25:43
Speaker 3: country with a useless army.
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Speaker 7: Now that is something he is denying. But let me
25:48
Speaker 7: give you what the quote was. He said that the
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Speaker 7: Donald Trump administration is doing a lot more and is
25:56
Speaker 7: certainly the US stake in Ukraine's economy that the true
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Speaker 7: administration is trying to get in is certainly quote a
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Speaker 7: better security guarantee than twenty thousand troops from some random
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Speaker 7: country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty
26:12
Speaker 7: years end of quote. So well, of course, the UK
26:16
Speaker 7: and France have both said they are willing to put
26:18
Speaker 7: troops on the ground as Ukraine perhaps gets nearer a
26:23
Speaker 7: peace deal. But now JD Vance, the Vice President of America,
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Speaker 7: said no, no, no, I didn't even mention the UK or France,
26:29
Speaker 7: adding they both had fought bravely alongside the US over
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Speaker 7: the last twenty years and beyond. So the question is
26:36
Speaker 7: who was he referring to if he wasn't referring to
26:39
Speaker 7: the UK and to France. As you can imagine, it
26:42
Speaker 7: isn't the Second World War that he might be alluding
26:44
Speaker 7: to thirty or forty years ago. He has just forgotten
26:47
Speaker 7: that the UK, of course lost quite a few troops
26:50
Speaker 7: supporting America to try and give freedom to Iraq. So
26:55
Speaker 7: one question is how he said this. One begins to
26:58
Speaker 7: think this shooting from the hip that he and Donald
27:01
Speaker 7: Trump are so keenon is perhaps going to get them
27:03
Speaker 7: into trauble occasionally.
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Speaker 3: Well, he was on Fox News when he said all this,
27:06
Speaker 3: and he probably felt very relexed, and he was just Riffin.
27:09
Speaker 3: And of course Riff's come back to haunt you when
27:11
Speaker 3: you are the vice president of the United States of America. Meanwhile,
27:15
Speaker 3: we've got the guy who played Dirty fired in the Crown.
27:17
Speaker 3: He's in trouble with the police.
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Speaker 7: Yes, interesting this. The actor Khalid Abdallah has also been
27:24
Speaker 7: in United ninety three, The Kite Runner of the Day
27:26
Speaker 7: of the Jackal. He is one of Hollywood's most outspoken
27:30
Speaker 7: actors when it comes to the war between Gaza and Israel.
27:34
Speaker 7: He has publicly called for a permanent cease far and
27:37
Speaker 7: in January attended a very very large event in the
27:40
Speaker 7: center of London which was supporting Gaza and the Palestinians. Now, he, however,
27:48
Speaker 7: has received a letter from the police basically saying we
27:51
Speaker 7: need to interview you as part of our ongoing investigation
27:54
Speaker 7: into alleged breaches of Public Order Act conditions. On the Saturday,
27:58
Speaker 7: the eighteenth of January. What does that mean? Well, it
28:01
Speaker 7: was a static rally and it was involving several thousand people.
28:04
Speaker 7: It took place near government offices because the government and
28:08
Speaker 7: the authorities decided to block the plans to hold the
28:11
Speaker 7: march near the BBC headquarters in the sort of central
28:15
Speaker 7: north of London. Police said these conditions were clearly communicated
28:19
Speaker 7: to those taking part in the protest that they should
28:21
Speaker 7: remain in Whitehall and then they go on. Despite this,
28:24
Speaker 7: a large number made its way into Trafalgar Square and
28:27
Speaker 7: in some cases attempted to go further. So those must
28:30
Speaker 7: be we believe the allegations. But of course we're hearing
28:33
Speaker 7: now from the actor that he believes the right to
28:36
Speaker 7: protest in the UK is under attack.
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Speaker 3: Kevin, I thank you. The time is our t Intersex,
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Speaker 3: Well he did it. Donald Trump has paused all military
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Speaker 3: aid into Ukraine. This comes just days after his roun
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Speaker 3: with Zelenski in the Oval Office. White House officials have
28:53
Speaker 3: noted the poors could be lifted if Zelenski shows a
28:55
Speaker 3: new commitment to peace talks with Russia. I'm joined again
28:58
Speaker 3: by Mettterrell, who joined us a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: Marco Rubio's former campaign manager, Hello, Man's.
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Speaker 12: Very great to be with youre hey.
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Speaker 3: Look, so a day i go Zelenski said he'd signed
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Speaker 3: the minerals deal. Last night the Prime Minister of Ukraine
29:13
Speaker 3: said that signed the military deal. They're saying this because
29:15
Speaker 3: they're comfortable with the security guarantees that Europe is offering.
29:19
Speaker 3: So why is America punishing him again?
29:22
Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 12: Quick correct cruestion of my title is the chief of
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Speaker 12: staff from Mark Roots presential campaign in twenty sixteen. Is
29:27
Speaker 12: just quick correction there. But great to be with you again,
29:30
Speaker 12: and I'll just say that, you know, look, I mean
29:32
Speaker 12: what we're seeing right now today shape is on the
29:35
Speaker 12: heels of the Friday meeting between President and Lensky, President Trump.
29:39
Speaker 12: You know, President Trump feeling there's always taken the action
29:42
Speaker 12: that he sees fit to pause this military aid, if
29:46
Speaker 12: you will, This is US aid to Ukraine. And I
29:49
Speaker 12: think at this stage right now, the real question everyone
29:51
Speaker 12: has is what happened next. I think right now we're
29:54
Speaker 12: going to just pause and wait and see. But certainly
29:57
Speaker 12: I think right now President Trump has been very transparent,
29:59
Speaker 12: very clear about what he expects, and that is that
30:02
Speaker 12: he wants to bring peace to this war. He campaigned,
30:06
Speaker 12: I'm bringing peace to this war and he campaigned on
30:08
Speaker 12: doing it in a negotiated way, and I think right
30:10
Speaker 12: now where this administration is at is that they felt
30:12
Speaker 12: that this agreement would have been a good deal economically,
30:15
Speaker 12: not just for both Ukraine and the United States, but
30:19
Speaker 12: also in its own right with service and security guarantee.
30:21
Speaker 12: So we'll see what happens here. We're seeing a lot
30:23
Speaker 12: of moving parts, of course takes shape here, but pausing
30:26
Speaker 12: that aid is something that's obviously breaking news and frankly
30:30
Speaker 12: nothing that people should be too shot by giving how
30:32
Speaker 12: that meaning went on Friday.
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Speaker 3: Okay, what's the reaction mean like in the United States
30:36
Speaker 3: of America because our Americans struggling with some of the
30:39
Speaker 3: concisions that the prisident Trump is making to Russia.
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Speaker 12: Well, I think a lot of Americans first and foremost
30:46
Speaker 12: viewing this. You know, if you look at the recent
30:47
Speaker 12: polling on this, the vast majority of Americans over seventy
30:50
Speaker 12: percent of Americans want this war to end. And look,
30:53
Speaker 12: the reality is, I think Americans recognize that there's anthy
30:56
Speaker 12: concessions on both sides, but you can't get there in
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Speaker 12: terms of discussing those concessions unless you bring the necessary
31:03
Speaker 12: parties to the negotiating table and then clues Presidents Lensky
31:06
Speaker 12: being on the negotiating table, but also President Putin. And
31:09
Speaker 12: what your senior administrations say most recently is that they
31:12
Speaker 12: feel as though this war is a war of attrition
31:15
Speaker 12: and the only way to end it is to get
31:17
Speaker 12: both parties, Presidence Lenski and President Putin to the negotiating table.
31:20
Speaker 12: I think the administration has been clear that you know
31:23
Speaker 12: you're going to have to likely see concessions on both
31:25
Speaker 12: sides here, but you don't know what those will look
31:27
Speaker 12: like until you negotiate, until you have discussions. And that's
31:29
Speaker 12: where I think the administration is at want to get those
31:31
Speaker 12: discussions going. Bullt by President Putin as well as by
31:34
Speaker 12: Presidents of Ski.
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Speaker 3: Well, Matt, and I'm sorry the chief of stuff the
31:38
Speaker 3: fore my chief of stuff Marco Rubio's campaign is that correct?
31:42
Speaker 12: Yeah, so appreciate that if I make sure the title
31:44
Speaker 12: is accurate. But all good.
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Speaker 3: It's okay, oh good, and thank you for joining us today.
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Speaker 3: That's Matt Terrell and it is now saveing minutes to six.
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Speaker 3: Used to be.
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Speaker 3: Be Yeah, it's five to six. Thank you for your text, Steve,
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Speaker 3: and I probably agree with you. Vance was probably talking
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Speaker 3: about peacekeeping forces and not some random country. It probably
32:13
Speaker 3: wasn't the UK make Hoskins in studio. And you've got
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Speaker 3: Winston Peter's.
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Speaker 14: Yeah do yeah, I do. So we'll find out. I
32:19
Speaker 14: sort of want to, funnily enough, want to talk about
32:21
Speaker 14: the Chinese more than I do about the fairies. To
32:23
Speaker 14: be perfectly frank, I am only interested in the fairies
32:26
Speaker 14: to the extent because we talked to the Prime Minister
32:28
Speaker 14: about it yesterday and he didn't know the answer. If
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Speaker 14: they go with Hyundai, do you get rid of most
32:34
Speaker 14: of the three hundred million? And you'd have to think
32:36
Speaker 14: you would, wouldn't you. And so that then turns out
32:39
Speaker 14: to be quite a good deal. So not only aren't
32:41
Speaker 14: you spending three plus billion, you're not even paying a
32:44
Speaker 14: cancelation fee, and you're getting what you wanted in the
32:46
Speaker 14: first place.
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Speaker 3: Sure enough. My whole thing about this is it's the
32:50
Speaker 3: ships are just the minor part of the whole deal.
32:52
Speaker 3: It's the wolf side that's going to cost so much more.
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Speaker 14: Not necessarily, because if you get the right ships, you
32:56
Speaker 14: don't need to do much wolf side. I think that's
32:58
Speaker 14: part of the problem. I mean, part of the three
32:59
Speaker 14: pl plus billion was most of it turned out to
33:02
Speaker 14: be all the stuff you had to do on the land.
33:04
Speaker 14: The ships themselves were only half a billion dollars, so
33:07
Speaker 14: that was the problem. So if you can get a
33:08
Speaker 14: ship that you don't need anything done wolf side, then
33:11
Speaker 14: not only do you not play a break fee, you
33:13
Speaker 14: save yourself hundreds of millions of not billions of dollars.
33:15
Speaker 14: And Winston can go look what I did.
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Speaker 3: He's not going to tell you any of this, is
33:18
Speaker 3: he I'm not sure, but I'm going to be well
33:21
Speaker 3: it is marchand that he's got to come days.
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Speaker 14: He's got a couple of weeks. And the other interesting
33:28
Speaker 14: thing about the report that got put out yesterday was
33:30
Speaker 14: one they should have negotiated harder last year when they
33:32
Speaker 14: got told this is Nicola Willis's problem. Of course, the
33:35
Speaker 14: other side of it is there are several companies that
33:37
Speaker 14: have been redacted, so I mean it's competitive. So anyway,
33:40
Speaker 14: we'll talk to him about that. But I really want
33:41
Speaker 14: to talk about the cooks and Chinese and stuff, So
33:43
Speaker 14: we'll do.
33:43
Speaker 3: All of that more. Dolly's husband done. Yeah, very sad,
33:46
Speaker 3: wasn't it? Very sad?
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Speaker 14: The wishy, the wishy washy. If you didn't know about
33:49
Speaker 14: the wishy washy the laundromat, you couldn't make that.
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Speaker 3: You couldn't.
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Speaker 14: I mean, that's so Nashville, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: It's a great story, good stuff, and I thank you.
33:57
Speaker 3: My name is Andrew Dickins, made thanks to produce a
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