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Full Show Podcast: 22 January 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: earlier is show with One Root Love where you Live
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning to you, welcome to the program.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Coming up
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Speaker 2: over the next sixty minutes, we've got an election date,
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Speaker 2: so she's all go, what sort of campaign will it be?
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Speaker 2: Liam Hare, the political commentator, will join us at about
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Speaker 2: five minutes time. We've got another green shoot. This time
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Speaker 2: there are more jobs for builders. We'll tell you more
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Speaker 2: on that, and of course Trump and Davos. We've got
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Speaker 2: Mitch mcand joining us for some details of what actually happened,
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Speaker 2: and an economics professor from Iowa just before the six
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Speaker 2: o'clock news on the impact, because remember this is still
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Speaker 2: about the economy. We've got this in correspondence from right
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Speaker 2: around New Zealand and news as it breaks, and you
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Speaker 2: can have your say on the text and the text
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Speaker 2: number is ninety two ninety two, and it's seven minutes
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Speaker 2: after five the agenda, and it's Thursday, the twenty second
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Speaker 2: of January, and Trump is coming for Greenland, or as
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Speaker 2: he likes to call it, a giant piece of ice.
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Speaker 3: It's the United States alone that can protect this giant
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Speaker 3: mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it
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Speaker 3: and improve it, and make it so that it's good
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Speaker 3: for Europe and save for Europe and good for us.
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Speaker 3: And that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once
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Speaker 3: again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States.
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Speaker 2: Now, that was part of his math and speech in Dabos.
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Speaker 2: This speech, by the way, seventy two minutes long, and
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Speaker 2: in the speech he fired shots in Europe but says
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Speaker 2: he will not use excessive force to acquire agreement.
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Speaker 3: What we have gotten out of NATO is nothing except
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Speaker 3: to protect Europe from the Soviet Union in our Russia.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we've helped them for so many years. We've
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Speaker 3: never gotten anything. And all we're asking for is to
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Speaker 3: get Greenland, including right title and ownership, because you need
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Speaker 3: the ownership to defend it.
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Speaker 2: Now, he says he's never got anything. But the only
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Speaker 2: time Article five has been enacted in the NATO agreement
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Speaker 2: was when nine to eleven happened, and so that's at
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Speaker 2: America's behest. Otherwise, there's been no activation of Article five. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: another news and Prince Harry's finished giving evidence against the
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Speaker 2: publisher of The Daily Mail. He claims journalists knew his
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Speaker 2: moves when no one should have. He described it as
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Speaker 2: full blown stalking for the Prince.
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Speaker 4: And his press privacy mission. This really is the moment
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Speaker 4: that matters for him. Already, his team have accused associated
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Speaker 4: newspapers of playing dirty tricks by ending their opening arguments
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Speaker 4: early yesterday, bringing the Prince to court a day earlier
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Speaker 4: than had been expected.
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Speaker 2: And Harry says his long uneasy history with the press
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Speaker 2: from dianater Meghan is why he's taking them on. It
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Speaker 2: is nine out to five.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 2: With all the attention on Greenland and Davos and internet
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Speaker 2: geopolitics lately, we've forgotten what's happening back here, and I'd
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Speaker 2: like to talk about wasteful government spending right now. And
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Speaker 2: when you hear about and when you ask about wasteful
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Speaker 2: government spending, you get some stock answers. People say, yeh,
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Speaker 2: this's the Ministry of Women's Affairs that's wasteful. But just
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Speaker 2: before Christmas Nicolas told us that scrapping the ministry would
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Speaker 2: save them fifteen million dollars a year.
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Speaker 5: That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's not going to change the economy overnight, is it.
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Speaker 2: But there we go. Then people will say, oh, wasteful
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Speaker 2: government spending. What about ki we build? What about Auckland's
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Speaker 2: light rail, what about that cycling bridge over the Waita Matar.
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Speaker 2: But there again, we never actually spent any real money
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Speaker 2: on it other than a bit of seed money and
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Speaker 2: research money, maybe a couple of one hundred million. Because
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Speaker 2: those pipe dreams never happened, so were they wasteful government spending.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you about real wasteful government spending story
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Speaker 2: that broke today that kai Unger Order is selling turtong
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Speaker 2: a land that it bought for seventy one million dollars
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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty one, and it's very likely they're
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Speaker 2: going to get their money back. The chief executive of Winton,
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Speaker 2: a guy called Chris Men, told The New Zealand Herald
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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty two that Kayinger Order had significantly
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Speaker 2: outbid eleven other experienced developers, including Winton, for the land.
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Speaker 2: They paid heaps. In fact, he said the taxpayers have
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Speaker 2: paid an absurd amount of money and he would eat
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Speaker 2: his hat if anyone moved into a house on the
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Speaker 2: land within four years. Well, here we are four years later,
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Speaker 2: Chris will not be eating his hat. They're selling the
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Speaker 2: land because it's excess to needs now. For a while
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Speaker 2: there it was a common problem. Just asked the band
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Speaker 2: six sixty who ended up paying much more than they
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Speaker 2: needed to buy six to sixty Castle Road in to Needin,
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Speaker 2: which is the fact where they got their name from.
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Speaker 2: They were in an auction and their main competition was
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Speaker 2: Kayinger Order using taxpayers money, using your money, and every
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Speaker 2: time sixty sixty made a bid, oh the taxpayers beat it.
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Speaker 2: It got to an insane price and eventually six sixty
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Speaker 2: one and they complained about it. Your aura was wasteful
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Speaker 2: government spending writ large. The fact that they're selling this
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Speaker 2: land right now shows you that this government has realized
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Speaker 2: that they were out of control back then. And so
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Speaker 2: if you want an example, if you've ever asked about
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Speaker 2: wasteful government spending and mentioned Kying Order more so than
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Speaker 2: the rats of minds like the Ministry of Women's.
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Speaker 1: Affairs, News Talk sivy.
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Speaker 2: We have an election, ladies, and gentlemen, And it's in November.
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Speaker 2: I think it's about the latest we've had. It's as
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Speaker 2: late as you can really go. And so we have
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Speaker 2: an election campaign. Now, what is going to happen in
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Speaker 2: this election campaign? What's this election campaign going to be?
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Speaker 6: Like?
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Speaker 2: I can tell you right from the start, it's going
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Speaker 2: to be long. We're going to be talking about this
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Speaker 2: for the next ten months. But anyway, it's on and
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Speaker 2: it's all go. So what else might happen over the
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Speaker 2: next year. We're going to talk to Lim Hare in
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Speaker 2: just a few moments time political commentator. It's news Talk here.
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Speaker 2: It is twelve minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live News Talks, that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be it's five point fifteen. So the election's coming November seventh,
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Speaker 2: of course, when some will refuse to go into negotiations
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Speaker 2: until the final official count lands. He's always done that.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, by that stage, once we finally get into
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Speaker 2: some negotiation with something, we're going to be close to Christmas,
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Speaker 2: if not the New year, before we know who's going
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Speaker 2: to leave the country for the next three years. So
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Speaker 2: Liam here is a political commentator, and joins me nout Liam,
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Speaker 2: long time no speak? How are you? Good morning?
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Speaker 7: I'm very well, good warning to you.
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Speaker 2: So first up this this date. I said yesterday, the
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Speaker 2: government just wants to wait for as many green shoots
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Speaker 2: as possible. Would you say that's the case.
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Speaker 7: That's exactly right. It's been the strategy the whole time.
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Speaker 7: You know, it's been a rough couple of years, and
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Speaker 7: I can tell you as someone who's got a business
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Speaker 7: of myself that has been very difficult. Things are turning
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Speaker 7: it around. There has been a turning of a want
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Speaker 7: and unemployments predicted to that sort of checking down. So
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Speaker 7: they are hoping that they can if they have as
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Speaker 7: much time as possible, that people will start to feel
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Speaker 7: more and more confident. So it is it's about of
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Speaker 7: weight as it can be according to you know, recent precedent.
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Speaker 7: We're much more use to October elections in New Zealand,
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Speaker 7: recent vintage. But they want to buy as much time
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Speaker 7: as possible for the economy to improve as much as possible.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, But at the same time we keep on
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Speaker 2: hearing that we will we will get election fatigue and
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Speaker 2: then that turns voters off and then people can be
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Speaker 2: bothered because they've had enough of it by the time
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Speaker 2: we get to November the seventh.
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Speaker 7: There's always a risk, and the risk is that if
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Speaker 7: things don't improve, or if the government becomes more unpopular,
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Speaker 7: there's more time for that popularity or a road. So
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Speaker 7: I mean, there's no there's no such thing as a
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Speaker 7: short bet in Baltics, and they are taking a big
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Speaker 7: bet on the economy improving and that being the main thing,
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Speaker 7: the main.
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Speaker 5: Driver of voters.
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Speaker 2: And we got somebody from Labor at the bump and
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Speaker 2: going oh. Over this next election, you're going to hear
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Speaker 2: a lot of disagreements between the coalition parties and I'm thinking, well,
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Speaker 2: of course you are, because this is the period of
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Speaker 2: time where they differentiate them differentiate themselves from each other.
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Speaker 7: Well, what's been really interesting is that you haven't seen
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Speaker 7: the minor party collapse that you normally see from a
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Speaker 7: coalition government or any type of government. Are the MMP
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Speaker 7: and that is because the Wilson Peters and David Seawall
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Speaker 7: have been differentiating themselves constantly throughout the last two and
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Speaker 7: a half years. It's been very difficult for Christopher Luxan
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Speaker 7: and It's one of the reasons why National hasn't sort
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Speaker 7: of had the big bounce that governments normally have at
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Speaker 7: the end of their first term. It's because they have
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Speaker 7: Muldson and David sea Will have figured out that the
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Speaker 7: way to continue to maintain their party support while government
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Speaker 7: is to be as difficult as possible, to be continued
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Speaker 7: to be bad boys. And I think that this is
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Speaker 7: the first election where the minor parties of the coalition
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Speaker 7: are going in was been pretty strong, so if that's true,
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Speaker 7: but it's been happening already.
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Speaker 2: And Labor, I mean, what's going to happen with Labor?
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Speaker 2: I mean they don't want to work with t Pati Mali.
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Speaker 2: They actually want to destroy to Palti Mari and when
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Speaker 2: all the seats they do want to work with the Greens,
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Speaker 2: But in that case will they ever be able to
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Speaker 2: get enough seats?
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Speaker 7: This is the big thing for National. If TPM are
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Speaker 7: quite politically toxic to the most of the voting population
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Speaker 7: but quite popular with the hardcore of the left, and
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Speaker 7: that is a classic what we though would call a
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Speaker 7: wedge in politics. And if National can tie Labour's fate
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Speaker 7: that are TPM, that is a potential big driver of
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Speaker 7: votes for National and the same way that the then
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Speaker 7: unpopularity of the Greens that's changed, so it's been two
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Speaker 7: thousand and two the Greens require unpopular in the United
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Speaker 7: Future was able to ride that about sort of a
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Speaker 7: big big bumps in the polls as National can in
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Speaker 7: the same way from Time Labor to TPM. That's the
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Speaker 7: type of thing that might drive centrist voters to National
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Speaker 7: on the basis that is there any way to keep
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Speaker 7: TPM out of government. So there's a big f about
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Speaker 7: this election.
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Speaker 2: Oh lots of and that's what makes elections fascinating them.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time today. That's the
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Speaker 2: here political commentator. So these green shoots that Christopher Luxton
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Speaker 2: is looking for over the next ten months to strengthen
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Speaker 2: his election campaign, we've got another one coming out today.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday we had the services sector that was good. Today
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about builders. Builder jobs are up
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Speaker 2: and that's next. It's five nineteen. It's US Talk Tomb.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: Five twenty one. It appears the confidence is returning to
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Speaker 2: the construction sector. Seek As released its monthly job report
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Speaker 2: and builders are the big winner. Job ads for construction
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Speaker 2: jump three point four percent from November to December. Trades
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Speaker 2: and engineering saw increases of one point five to two
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Speaker 2: point six percent compared to last year. There are wait
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Speaker 2: for this, forty three percent more job ads for builders.
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Speaker 2: And Malcolm Fleming is the CEO of Certified Builders New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: a joints here this morning and morning to Malcolm.
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Speaker 8: Good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: So these jobs are they sort of like one offs
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Speaker 2: or are they longer term employment contracts showing a longer
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Speaker 2: term security.
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Speaker 8: Look those numbers from Secretary encouraging and the whole they've
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Speaker 8: being reflected on what we're seeing as well. So part
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Speaker 8: of the membership benefit of these on Certified Builders is
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Speaker 8: that our members have access to employment agreements and across
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Speaker 8: January they're running a twenty percent up on what the
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Speaker 8: twenty twenty five averages were, and given that January is
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Speaker 8: a typically slow month, those numbers already encouraging.
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Speaker 2: Where are all the projects that these jobs are coming from.
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Speaker 8: Right across the country. We've been talking about over the
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Speaker 8: last couple of years that the likes of the South
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Speaker 8: Island patches of North Wuld have been sort of been
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Speaker 8: the top points of construction. We're starting to see this
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Speaker 8: generally fly across more balanced across the country.
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Speaker 2: We heard some complaints last year, of course, that the
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Speaker 2: government stopped a lot of projects on their capex, on
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Speaker 2: their actual their assey. It's either you know, fixing out
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Speaker 2: hospitals or building state houses and stuff like that, and
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Speaker 2: that put a lot of the construction of the industry
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Speaker 2: and the builders out of a job. Is that starting
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Speaker 2: to pick up or not.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that was really unfortunate, the slow down or the
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Speaker 8: stoppage of projects that were already in train, and that
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Speaker 8: affected the industry really badly, about fifteen thousand jobs lost
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Speaker 8: over across that eighteen months. We're starting to see that
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Speaker 8: pick up now from central government projects coming onto market,
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Speaker 8: and we saw snippets of that late last year with
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Speaker 8: schoolworks coming through, defense housing, the Upper Norkland Live Imports,
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Speaker 8: naval base, and that's starting to sort of go on
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Speaker 8: through with hospitals and things. So we're starting to see
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Speaker 8: those signs. But in general, in terms of homeowners as well,
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Speaker 8: we're starting to feel more confident about taking on projects
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Speaker 8: and that confidence hasn't been there for quite sometime.
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Speaker 2: And the other big story from this week is that
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Speaker 2: Fletcher's sold off their construction arm to a French company
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Speaker 2: called Vancy. Will will that affect building jobs or will
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Speaker 2: Vancy just take up what Fletches was already doing well?
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Speaker 8: Is a really sad story. Were disappointed to see the
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Speaker 8: loss of the features as a commercial contractor. They haven't
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Speaker 8: been in the vertical space for a while, that's in
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Speaker 8: terms of buildings, and I've been sorely missed. And they
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Speaker 8: had a bad run back in the twenty tens with
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Speaker 8: three main projects in particular, it didn't go well for them,
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Speaker 8: Justice Present and christ Church further too and Auckland Commercial Bay,
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Speaker 8: International Convention Center which is just open. So the expertise
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Speaker 8: has been sadly missed in that space and I've been
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Speaker 8: in the storm the horizontal doing the infrastructure. That particular
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Speaker 8: work will be picked will continue on, just under a
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Speaker 8: new name. But really sweet to see a real construction
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Speaker 8: icon like Fleacher out of the commercial.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely space, Absolutely Malcolm, and I thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time. Malcolm Fleming. Here is a certified build
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Speaker 2: as being era defining. He said, the great powers can
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Speaker 2: go along alone. They have the size and the money
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Speaker 2: and the military to do whatever they want. But that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that the middle powers don't exist. He made
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Speaker 2: Korea and others to build strategic autonomy and collaborate to
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Speaker 2: stabilize the global system. Don't worry about the big guys.
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Speaker 2: The middle guys need to talk together. He argued that
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Speaker 2: middle powers could no longer rely on great powers to
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Speaker 2: maintain order. In fact, they appear hell bent on sewing disorder.
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Speaker 2: Carne framed the moment is a pivot point. Either middle
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Speaker 2: powers coordinate to build a more resilient, cooperative system, or
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Speaker 2: the world sides deeper into fragmentation. And then he said
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Speaker 2: some words that completely freaked out the conspiracy class. He said,
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Speaker 2: the old error is gone, and it's time to build
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Speaker 2: a new world order. But his new world order is
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Speaker 2: not built on power and subjugation and pedophiles and whatever.
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Speaker 2: His new world order is based on cooperation amongst the
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Speaker 2: middle nations. He named the rupture. He explained its causes
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Speaker 2: and argued that the future will be shaped not by
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Speaker 2: superpowers alone, but by coalitions of capable, mid sized nations.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was brilliant. You know, Trump's speech for
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Speaker 2: seventy two minutes was not brilliant. Cannie is the smart
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Speaker 2: guy who might just win at the end of the movie.
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Speaker 2: Now we are not a middle power. We're not even
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Speaker 2: a small power anymore. The world order has changed, and
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Speaker 2: the way New Zealand used to virtual signal no longer
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Speaker 2: carries any weight. It's time to find our friends and
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Speaker 2: maximize our relationships with them, because the elephants are dancing
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Speaker 2: and us mice need to find a safe place so
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Speaker 2: we don't get crushed. Five twenty nine. The auroras are
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Speaker 2: happening at the moment because there's a very big space storm.
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Speaker 2: What a pity nobody can see it because there's a
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Speaker 2: very big weather storm right now. Curarently this is the
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Speaker 2: biggest solar radiation storm since two thousand and three. So
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Speaker 2: if you've got some clear skies at night, look up
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Speaker 2: for the space storm hasn't been falling with our power.
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Speaker 2: But that's good much. We can now in the United
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Speaker 2: States very shortly to talk about what happened at Darbos
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Speaker 2: and Lisa Cook, who Trump wants out of the Fed Reserve,
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Speaker 2: which is a big, big case. We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: Understand Yes, summer is an.
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Speaker 2: Over good morning. She's just seeing summers and over Yet
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Speaker 2: she's right because summer hasn't even started. Let's be honest
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Speaker 2: about it. I've got a text here. We're camping on
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Speaker 2: the Coromanda of the eighties, washed out and came home
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Speaker 2: three years in a row. It's a bastard of a place.
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Speaker 2: Haven't been back in forty years. As you go back,
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Speaker 2: but don't go back in January. I said this yesterday.
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Speaker 2: If you noticed it. Every January we have a tropical storm.
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Speaker 2: Then February and March comes along, long clear period. So
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Speaker 2: if you've got anybody coming from overseas, tell them don't
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Speaker 2: come in January. Don't come Christmas, come in February. Now,
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Speaker 2: the text thru says that Cardi is good, but he's
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Speaker 2: not saying anything that's not fairly obvious. True, but it's
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Speaker 2: the way he says it. He's a very good writer.
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Speaker 2: But also who else is saying it? No one else
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Speaker 2: is saying it. Everybody thinks that when you've got something
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Speaker 2: like the current American administration, you have to fight fire
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Speaker 2: with fire. We'll do a tariffs against their tariffs. But
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Speaker 2: Carnie's talking about a work around. He's talking about saying, Okay,
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Speaker 2: just let the big elephants just do their thing and
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Speaker 2: we've just got to do a workaround and work together.
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Speaker 2: So at least he is one person saying this sort
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Speaker 2: of stuff. And finally John O. Riddler, the live Ocean
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Speaker 2: swimm and the guy who's going all the way from
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Speaker 2: Northen to Wellington, a one thousand miles swim to raise
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Speaker 2: awareness about how dirty our seas have become and how
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Speaker 2: threatened the life in there is. Of course he's paused
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Speaker 2: his swim, he's paused himself and he's just off to
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Speaker 2: Ta Kaka. He's already swim in an awfully long way,
19:20
Speaker 2: really quite quickly. But his camp yesterday reported that he
19:23
Speaker 2: may start up the swim again today because the conditions
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Speaker 2: are easing. And we'll keep you in touch with John
19:28
Speaker 2: Riddler as he heads to Wellington. It is twenty two
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Speaker 2: to six z be I'm trying to go around the
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Speaker 2: country to Duaneedin. First. Callum Proctor, Good morning to you morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: We've got a central Otago track closing for most of
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Speaker 2: the year.
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Speaker 8: Here.
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Speaker 10: This is part of the Frankton Track, popular walking and
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Speaker 10: cycling tracks being shut while a new wastewater pipe's being installed.
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Speaker 10: It's part of the Queenstown Cycle trail network, so this
19:55
Speaker 10: will be a blow for a lot of people. The
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Speaker 10: Queenstown Lakes SISTERCT Council's laying this pipe in Queenstown and
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Speaker 10: Franklin's strength and its wastewater resilience also to cut over
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Speaker 10: flow risk and support population growth. The council says the
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Speaker 10: track will remain closed until November. It'll briefly reopen for
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Speaker 10: the Queenstown Marathon weekend, then shut again in early December.
20:14
Speaker 10: They do say the projects expected to finish earlier than
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Speaker 10: initially planned, six months earlier in fact, and it's essential
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Speaker 10: for the region's long term nets. How's your weather, Heavy
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Speaker 10: showers for Queenstound twenty one to need and rain easing
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Speaker 10: today at eighteen.
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Speaker 2: It'd be nice if you have some clear sky so
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Speaker 2: you can see this aurora. But thank you so much.
20:30
Speaker 2: Callum Claire Sherwood from Christuge, good morning to you. Good morning,
20:34
Speaker 2: So christ Jug has some Australians visiting.
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Speaker 11: Well, So we hope christ Church gen Z's new campaign
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Speaker 11: it's named Made for It is putting the spotlight on
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Speaker 11: our upgraded infrastructure and the busy event calendar where we're
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Speaker 11: quickly filling up aiming to lure travelers, specifically from Australia's
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Speaker 11: East coast. This is anchored by the opening of our
20:54
Speaker 11: new stadium. Of course, we're counting down to April. We've
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Speaker 11: got marketing general manager for christ Church gen Z, Steve
20:59
Speaker 11: Mackie Hanson, saying attracting more Ossie's has been a long
21:04
Speaker 11: been a top priority here. He says, that's where the
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Speaker 11: market is and they're more likely to travel here. Macki
21:09
Speaker 11: Hanson says it's also a priority for Central government and
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Speaker 11: they've received five hundred thousand dollars from the Events Boost
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Speaker 11: Fund to target Eastern Australians. Christ Church g and Z
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Speaker 11: wants to see hotels, restaurants, shops and attractions filled with
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Speaker 11: Ossie visitors ultimately spending money here.
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Speaker 2: Because your weather so beautiful. How is it today?
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Speaker 11: Oh sad to say, rain heavy falls easing by evening
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Speaker 11: but will remain overcast, strong northeasterlies to go with it.
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Speaker 11: The high is eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Max told Joints me from Wellington. Good morning, Max, Good
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Speaker 2: morning your emergency department at crisis Point.
21:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, Wellington Hospital. It feels like everyone has a horror
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Speaker 5: story about having to go to this ed it's always
21:48
Speaker 5: ranked among the worst in the country for wait times.
21:51
Speaker 5: Apparently now it's almost a given. The demand is outstripping
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Speaker 5: staff on duty the number of available beds. They call
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Speaker 5: this their code. Only about half of patients are being
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Speaker 5: treated and moved on within six hours, only about half.
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Speaker 5: About ten people a day leave Wellington Hospital's ED without
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Speaker 5: being treated at all. It is a crisis. It was
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Speaker 5: a labor that retrieved these latest figures to make a point.
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Speaker 5: Health Minister Simeon Brown agrees. He says Wellington's ED had
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Speaker 5: unacceptable wait times and is among the worst performing in
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Speaker 5: the country, if not the worst. There has been additional
22:26
Speaker 5: funding set aside by the government for Wellington. It doesn't
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Speaker 5: seem to be making much of an impact yet, but
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Speaker 5: Simeon Brown says wait and see. The hospital says wait
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Speaker 5: and see. I think it's fair to say a lot
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Speaker 5: of people in this city won't go to ED unless
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Speaker 5: they're dying or have a limb dangling from where it's
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Speaker 5: supposed to be.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's you weather?
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Speaker 5: Periods of rain and gusty Win twenty one the high.
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Speaker 2: And I thank you so much Mixtell for your marvelous
22:48
Speaker 2: language and painting. Such a picture. And now now we're
22:51
Speaker 2: joined by neither written man who from Auckland. Good morning
22:53
Speaker 2: to you dangling got me, yeah exactly. Now you've become
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Speaker 2: the weather and flooding experts. What's happening the weather?
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Speaker 12: Okay, look, we know that the states of emergency across
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Speaker 12: the Gisban district. They're still in place. Bay of Plenty, Coramandel,
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Speaker 12: fung at A, thousands of people without power currently now
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Speaker 12: in the Gisban district, State Highway thirty five that's completely closed.
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Speaker 12: Bay of Plenty, State Highway two closed in several sections
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Speaker 12: now this is between Todunga and Pidor and in Thiams Coramandel.
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Speaker 12: We've got that extensive flooding again closing, you know, like
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Speaker 12: large sections of State Highway twenty five now south of Todunga.
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Speaker 12: Several people are stuck in cars in floodwaters on white
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Speaker 12: Or Road and in Whitecuttle. State Highway one is closed
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Speaker 12: now that's between Tito and Tukotor. That's due to multiple
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Speaker 12: fallen trees. So yes, still not good, but that worst
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Speaker 12: of the weather is over today. It's still going to
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Speaker 12: be raining showers hopefully peter.
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Speaker 2: Round over the mid sol from the poside of an adventure.
23:51
Speaker 2: There's got to be a morning after if we can
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Speaker 2: make it through the storm.
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Speaker 12: Sing it baby?
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Speaker 2: Do I need to ask you about the weather?
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Speaker 12: Rain tropical? Do you know it's currently twenty twenty one
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Speaker 12: degrees so it's like you're sitting in Fiji. But look
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Speaker 12: that rain will lease to showers today in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Very good stuff, New stalzb It is now seventeen to six.
24:11
Speaker 2: Just want to mention a couple of people. First, Jack
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Speaker 2: Oliver Hood. Now Jack is a thirty seven year old
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Speaker 2: UK com barrister who drowned at Hahey Beach in the
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Speaker 2: corimandal earlier this week. And Jack was very respected. He
24:23
Speaker 2: worked on major criminal appeals like the Mark Lundey case
24:26
Speaker 2: and the Gael Maloney case, and also represented LEGO in
24:29
Speaker 2: a trademark dispute with Zero. He is a shining star
24:32
Speaker 2: of the legal profession, not only because he was a
24:34
Speaker 2: very good lawyer, but because he was one of our
24:36
Speaker 2: up and coming academics. And here's the thing about Jack,
24:38
Speaker 2: this is why I'm mentioning him. I knew him, I
24:40
Speaker 2: met him, but I met him when he was a
24:42
Speaker 2: kid because he was the son of Doug Hood, and
24:46
Speaker 2: Doug Hood was a big figure in the Flying Nun scene.
24:48
Speaker 2: He started learning tours. He brought out artists like New
24:51
Speaker 2: Water and Billy Bragg. Now Doug pass last September. And
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Speaker 2: now his son Jack Oliver Hood, very smart, very lovely kid,
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Speaker 2: thirty seven year y old now has gone as well.
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Speaker 2: So it's a double tragedy for that family in one year.
25:04
Speaker 2: And I wish you all the best. And the other
25:05
Speaker 2: person to mention is Rob Hurst. And Rob was the
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Speaker 2: drummer for Midnight Oil. He formed the bare back of
25:11
Speaker 2: the seventies. When you think of Midnight Oil, you think
25:13
Speaker 2: of Peter Garrett. But Rob was the real driving force,
25:15
Speaker 2: big fighter for the environment and most of all an
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Speaker 2: extraordinary drummer. And did you know that Pete Townsend from
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Speaker 2: the Who once said that after Keith Moon, Rob was
25:24
Speaker 2: the greatest drummer in rock and just after Midnight Oil
25:27
Speaker 2: called it a day. Three years ago he found out
25:29
Speaker 2: he had pancreatic cancer, which he finally succumbed to Rob Hurst,
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Speaker 2: great drummer, good bloke, Rest in peace.
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Speaker 7: All right.
25:37
Speaker 2: On the way McCann from the United States of America,
25:40
Speaker 2: And in fact we'll go to Iowa to talk about
25:42
Speaker 2: the economy of the world. Right now, it's News Talk ZB.
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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
25:49
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business thirteen.
25:51
Speaker 2: To stick to the abouted States, we go. Mitch mcchanical
25:54
Speaker 2: bought it to here. Good morning, Andrew, how are you
25:56
Speaker 2: very well? The much anticipated Trump speeched That's what did
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Speaker 2: he say?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, he gave a very long speech at the World
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Speaker 13: Economic Forum this swarum this morning. He covered a wide
26:06
Speaker 13: range of topics, as he often does, but there were
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Speaker 13: a few key headlines from that speech. Andrew, if we
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Speaker 13: look at Greenland first, he said Denmark should be giving
26:15
Speaker 13: Greenland to the United States and that no other country
26:18
Speaker 13: can secure it. But he also said that he would
26:22
Speaker 13: not be using force. Now, this is something that many
26:25
Speaker 13: NATO countries have been concerned about in recent days, whether
26:27
Speaker 13: the US would simply fly in with the military equipment.
26:31
Speaker 13: He said that won't be happening. But if they don't
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Speaker 13: acquire or they don't get given Greenland, the USA will
26:37
Speaker 13: certainly remember it. He also had some policy he announced
26:41
Speaker 13: around capping credit card interest rates here in the US,
26:44
Speaker 13: and he also said he made some news where he
26:46
Speaker 13: said there'll be prosecutions for the twenty twenty election, which
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Speaker 13: he is still six years later saying was stolen. So
26:53
Speaker 13: some prosecutions coming there. It's fair to say he's likely
26:56
Speaker 13: to have a frosty reception in Switzerland. He also chose
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Speaker 13: to take aim other leaders like Mark Carney and Emmanuel
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Speaker 13: Macron of France.
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Speaker 2: All right, Meanwhile, there's fires burning back in the mainland
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Speaker 2: of the United States as well, with a very big
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Speaker 2: court case about the power of the president over the
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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve. This is featuring Lisa Cook. What's happening there.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's right. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on
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Speaker 13: Donald Trump's attempts to fire one of the Federal Reserve
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Speaker 13: governors today, Lisa Cook. Now, Donald Trump has had a
27:24
Speaker 13: problem with the Fed for many months now because they
27:27
Speaker 13: haven't been lowering interest ratets as fast and as often
27:31
Speaker 13: as he would like. So he's trying to fire one
27:33
Speaker 13: of the governors. But the pretext to this is he
27:35
Speaker 13: saying that she's committed mortgage fraud on a number of
27:38
Speaker 13: her properties. He's not firing her because of anything she's
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Speaker 13: done on the Board of Governors, according to Donald Trump. Instead,
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Speaker 13: he's using this as mortgage fraud. So that's going to
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Speaker 13: the Supreme Court today, and it's an incredibly important case
27:53
Speaker 13: for presidential power in this country. We're not going to
27:55
Speaker 13: get a result today, but they are hearing arguments in
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Speaker 13: Washington at the moment. Me, my, you're a bit chilly,
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Speaker 13: are we what? I woke up this morning? It was
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Speaker 13: minus eleven degrees here in New York. America's National Weather
28:08
Speaker 13: Service has imposed winter storm watchers for much of the
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Speaker 13: country around twenty states in the coming days. ACU Weathers
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Speaker 13: is potentially hundreds of thousands of people may go without
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Speaker 13: power and heat for days. Andrew. Earlier this week there
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Speaker 13: was a piloup because of white out conditions in Michigan,
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Speaker 13: involving more than one hundred vehicles.
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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, I've seen some remarkable videos on social media
28:30
Speaker 2: of cars cascading downhills on Black Eyes as a tragedy.
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Speaker 2: Mitchell mccamb from the United States of America, thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for your time today.
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Speaker 13: Thanks, Andrew the best.
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Speaker 2: It is ten to six, zibby. So obviously it's a
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Speaker 2: big story of the world at the moment, with the
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Speaker 2: President of the United States coming after Greenland saying he
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Speaker 2: will not use excessive force.
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Speaker 3: Now I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the
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Speaker 3: acquisition of Greenland by the United States. We probably won't
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Speaker 3: get anything unless.
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Speaker 2: They just I to use excessive.
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Speaker 3: Strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable.
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Speaker 8: But I won't do that.
29:08
Speaker 9: I don't have to use force.
29:08
Speaker 3: I don't want to use force.
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Speaker 8: I won't use force.
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Speaker 9: All the United.
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Speaker 3: States is asking for is a place called Greenland.
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Speaker 2: And University of Iowa economics professor and Villamill joins me
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Speaker 2: now from the United statescon good morning to you, and
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Speaker 2: good morning. This is an economic forum, and this is
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Speaker 2: what it's not about geopolitics and land grabs as such.
29:28
Speaker 2: But we are looking at a tariff war between Europe
29:31
Speaker 2: and America. Now, how real is that threatened? How do
29:34
Speaker 2: you expect the EU to react?
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Speaker 6: Uh, the tariff war is extremely concerning. You could do
29:41
Speaker 6: a lot of economic damage to.
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Speaker 9: The world.
29:45
Speaker 6: And that's what happens when you have a a you know,
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Speaker 6: global taraf So so I'm quite concerned about it.
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Speaker 2: All right, How would it affect the Americans? I mean,
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Speaker 2: if the you went through with this, could the UA's
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Speaker 2: economy take the hit that they're talking about in Europe?
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Speaker 6: Yes, both sides will though I mean, that's the problem
30:13
Speaker 6: with tariffs. Everybody loses, so it's not something that we
30:18
Speaker 6: should be doing. It is encouraging today to hear that
30:21
Speaker 6: President Trump said he won't take Greenland by force, but
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Speaker 6: there are a lot of other tools on both sides,
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Speaker 6: meaning tariffs. You know, how did this most recent iteration start.
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Speaker 6: Trump promise to put tariffs on eight European countries currently
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Speaker 6: at ten percent until February first, and then ratcheting up
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Speaker 6: to twenty five percent. So that will be huge for
30:54
Speaker 6: those countries. They had to react, and they now have
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Speaker 6: a tool that they can use in order. It's called
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Speaker 6: the europe Anti Coercion Instrument where they can reply.
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Speaker 2: So okay, So the United States markets rebounded after the
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Speaker 2: prison said he wouldn't use force to acquire Greenland, And
31:20
Speaker 2: it shows you just how powerful his words are.
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Speaker 9: Doesn't it to not extend how powerful his words are,
31:26
Speaker 9: but to an even larger extent, how powerful international capital
31:32
Speaker 9: markets are.
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Speaker 6: President Trump has said that he is basically all powerful
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Speaker 6: and he is only limited by you know, kind of.
31:42
Speaker 9: His own.
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Speaker 12: His own views.
31:46
Speaker 9: That's not true.
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Speaker 6: The US has a big debt and deficit, and it
31:52
Speaker 6: needs to finance that debt. And deficit, and what we
31:57
Speaker 6: saw yesterday. The reason that markets decl is because interest
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Speaker 6: rates went up. And President Trump is not sensitive to
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Speaker 6: a lot of things. He is sensitive to market and
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Speaker 6: when the markets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely he is sensitive to markets. Out I've been
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Speaker 2: in a little University of Iowa economics professor I thank
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Speaker 2: you for your time today. It is six minutes to.
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Speaker 2: It's time for me to go and head out into
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Speaker 2: the light to drizzle, which that the rain was persistent
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Speaker 2: all day yesterday was really was quite incredible. Happens every January,
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Speaker 2: doesn't we get a tropical storm? And Mike Hoskins with
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Speaker 2: us Morning Morning.
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Speaker 14: Quick question, is our Trump's words really all powerful? Or
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Speaker 14: are we just thick? Because honestly, did you, honestly, heart
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Speaker 14: of hearts, believe he was ever going to invade Greenland? No,
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Speaker 14: of course not.
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Speaker 7: So.
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Speaker 14: Therefore, given he's been around for well, forget the other
33:03
Speaker 14: four years, an entire year for a second time round,
33:06
Speaker 14: and given he uses the same trick literally every time,
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Speaker 14: why are we still falling for the same He's just
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Speaker 14: the metal with us.
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Speaker 2: He just hears stuff. You know, Carne wrote a speech
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Speaker 2: which I'm really Late's speech was seventy two minutes long.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure there was nothing written down by it.
33:23
Speaker 2: He just throws out some words, watches the reaction, and
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Speaker 2: then decides what to do next.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, he was never invaded in Greenland. It'll all work
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Speaker 14: out well, it'll eventually in some way shape or form,
33:33
Speaker 14: because at the basis of everything he says is a
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Speaker 14: seed of common sense, and that is that Greenland needs
33:38
Speaker 14: a bit of a look at in terms of security.
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Speaker 14: Everyone agrees with that, no one disagrees with that. Then
33:42
Speaker 14: all the hyperbole comes in. Everyone out NATO.
33:45
Speaker 2: NATO has spent some money.
33:46
Speaker 14: That's the weirdest thing, isn't it. Anyway, we'll have more
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Speaker 14: on that. Tony Brown's with us this morning. By the way,
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Speaker 14: you all black coach.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you know something that nobody else knows. But that's
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