Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Mark Gilbert: Former US Ambassador to New Zealand on the upcoming debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

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Mark Gilbert: Former US Ambassador to New Zealand on the upcoming debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a hard job policing these two.
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  Speaker 1: A big day in the US, the first presidential debate
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  Speaker 1: since Joe Biden quit the race. So I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: Trump's second presidential debate of this election season, his first
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  Speaker 1: against Kamala Harris. What is going to happen and does
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  Speaker 1: it really matter? Mark Gilbert joins us. He's a former
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  Speaker 1: US ambassador and Democrat Party member. He's joining us from
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  Speaker 1: Park City, Utah, this morning. Mark, Good morning, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan, Kiotta tell.
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  Speaker 1: Me what's your read? Here? Is what happens today? Going
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  Speaker 1: to move the dial make a difference?
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  Speaker 2: I believe that it could. First of all, this is,
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  Speaker 2: as you just mentioned, the vice president's first presidential debate,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of the polling shows that many people
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  Speaker 2: across the unit as they really don't know her. So
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  Speaker 2: this will be a great opportunity for her to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: And the expectation is that debate will exceed more than
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  Speaker 2: fifty million people, maybe as many as sixty million people
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  Speaker 2: will watch.
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  Speaker 1: Harris says Trump is not burdened by telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Does that matter? I mean, he's been elected previously, we
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  Speaker 1: know he's got form in that area. Do people care?
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  Speaker 1: Does it matter if he's not trying to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Should she try and fact chicken like Hillary Clinton did?
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  Speaker 2: I think she will, And I think this is different
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  Speaker 2: than twenty sixteen. You know, back in twenty sixteen, he
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  Speaker 2: was seen into an outsider. His independence was seen through
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  Speaker 2: the kind of comments that he made and actually a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a bullying with Secretary Clinton. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that that is how people look at it today,
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  Speaker 2: because he has said some things, especially that people just
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  Speaker 2: look at him and go, oh my god, I can't
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  Speaker 2: possibly be true. So I do think will make a difference,
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  Speaker 2: But of course it will matter how the Vice president
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  Speaker 2: addresses that, whether she fax checks in in real time
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  Speaker 2: or basically says, you know, here you go, that's just
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  Speaker 2: another lie. Let me tell everyone. What the real truth
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  Speaker 2: is is.
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  Speaker 1: How vulnerable is she on the border and inflation that
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  Speaker 1: incumbency issue that she's got from being attached to Biden.
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  Speaker 2: So the border probably would have been her largest negative
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  Speaker 2: issue until the President told the Republican Party to take
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  Speaker 2: the bill that their party actually negotiated and throw it
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  Speaker 2: out because he wanted it as a campaign issue. So
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  Speaker 2: I believe that that's something that is actually backfired for him,
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  Speaker 2: and the numbers at the border have dramatically closed. As
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  Speaker 2: far as how people see which party's fault, it is,
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  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, a lot of people see
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  Speaker 2: it as both parties fault, and that's some thing that
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  Speaker 2: I personally agree with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to see how it could be anything,
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  Speaker 1: but given the numbers over so many different presidencies, right, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining us this morning. Really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your time and enjoy the debate. Mark Gilbert, former
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  Speaker 1: US Ambassador and Democrat Party member, joining us from Park City, Utah.
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