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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on Donald Trump's warning against potential assassination attempts · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Mitch Mkhan as a US correspondent. He's at the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations in New York City for US this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has sounded the alarm over
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  Speaker 1: the illumining threat of a nuclear disaster there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: A really concerning speech you could say, from Zelenski here
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  Speaker 3: at the Yuien this morning.
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  Speaker 2: He wore the General Assembly.
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  Speaker 3: That Russia is planning attacks on Ukrainian power plants.
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  Speaker 2: Zelenski said he recently viewed intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: Reports from his own offices that Vladimir Putin, the President
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  Speaker 3: of Russia, is receiving detailed information about Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
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  Speaker 3: Zelenski said, any missile or drone strike, any critical incident
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  Speaker 3: in the energy system could lead to a nuclear disaster.
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  Speaker 2: A day like that must never come.
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  Speaker 3: And Zelenski also used his address this morning to remind
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  Speaker 3: the world not to lose focus on his country's plight,
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  Speaker 3: particularly given what's going on in living On and in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening with these intelligence briefings for Donald Trump about
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so, US intelligence officials have spoken to Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: and his team about suspected Iranian plots to kill him now.
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  Speaker 3: The briefing was from the Office of the Director of
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  Speaker 3: National Intelligence. Donald Trump's campaign says they are real and
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  Speaker 3: specific threats. They are different from the attempts on his
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  Speaker 3: life earlier this year. In recent weeks in Pennsylvania and
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  Speaker 3: in Florida, Donald Trump posted about this, as he always
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  Speaker 3: does Ryan on social media.
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  Speaker 2: He said, big threats on my life by Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Moves were already made by Iran that didn't work out,
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  Speaker 3: but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone,
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  Speaker 3: and he finished by saying, an attack on a former
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  Speaker 3: president is a death wish for the attacker.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, Matt, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McCann, our US correspondent from the UN in New
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  Speaker 1: York this morning.
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