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Donald Trump, We have control of Iranian airspace · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Straight to breaking news, the very latest on that Middle
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  Speaker 1: East crisis between Iran and Israel. Donald Trump has just
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  Speaker 1: posted on social media. There it is on your screen.
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  Speaker 1: We now have complete and total control of the skies
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  Speaker 1: over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive
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  Speaker 1: equipment and plenty of it. But it doesn't compare to
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  Speaker 1: American made, conceived and manufactured stuff. Nobody does it better
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  Speaker 1: than good old USA. He concludes in that post, Let's
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  Speaker 1: speak to our diplomatic Corsponant James Landale, he's there at
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  Speaker 1: the G seven gathering, and also our North America correspond
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  Speaker 1: Nomi Igbao, she's there live for us at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: So Nomia, let me start with you and that post.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the first word of that post that
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  Speaker 1: is getting a lot of attention. He says, we now
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  Speaker 1: have complete and total control of the skies. It underlines
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  Speaker 1: how intertwined the US and Israel are on this.
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  Speaker 2: It does, but it doesn't give any more clarity on
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  Speaker 2: what President Trump plans to do next. What he's doing
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  Speaker 2: there is flexing US might. But does this now mean
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  Speaker 2: that the US is going to get all out involved
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  Speaker 2: with Israel and strike or is it a scare tactic
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  Speaker 2: to try and get Iran around the negotiating table. Now
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  Speaker 2: we don't even know if that is still something that
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  Speaker 2: they are planning for. We know that they were meant
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  Speaker 2: to be the six rounder talks between Iran and the
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  Speaker 2: US when it comes to nuclear on Sunday. That's now
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  Speaker 2: been stopped, But there are some suggestions that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: would still want Steve wick Coff's Middle East envoy and
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  Speaker 2: the Vice President Jadvans to be involved in those talks.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of the Vice President JD Vans, he's put
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  Speaker 2: out a very long post on x in which he
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  Speaker 2: has outlined the concerns that the Trump administration has, but
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  Speaker 2: he's also referred to just if I can just pick
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  Speaker 2: out the bit that he said. He says, of course,
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  Speaker 2: people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after
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  Speaker 2: the last twenty five years of idiotic foreign policy. And
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously speaking or appealing to the base, the base
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  Speaker 2: that's voted for Trump and millions of others on his
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  Speaker 2: No Wars platform. But does what does this mean going forward?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we're any clearer on what the US
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  Speaker 2: plans to do next when it comes to what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Let's cross to the G seven and to James, and
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  Speaker 1: of course Donald Trump left that gathering early. In terms
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  Speaker 1: of all of those other issues that the gathering wanted
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  Speaker 1: to discuss, whether it was tariffs and trade, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was the Middle East directly with Donald Trump or President
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  Speaker 1: Zelenski on Ukraine. Give me a sense of the mood
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  Speaker 1: where you.
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  Speaker 3: Are, well, this is like a birthday party where the
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  Speaker 3: birthday party boy has on home. Donald Trump turned seventy
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  Speaker 3: nine at the weekend, and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: leaders here, all dressed up, nowhere to go. If you
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  Speaker 3: think about it, on the second day of something like this,
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  Speaker 3: you get all the guests, the non G seven leaders
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  Speaker 3: who've come, the leaders of India, Brazil, South Korea and
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  Speaker 3: elsewhere have all come here to have conversations not just
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  Speaker 3: with each other and other world leaders, but with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned President Zelenski here of course is the
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  Speaker 3: central one of that because these events matter, these summits,
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  Speaker 3: because they are a chance for world leaders to sit
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  Speaker 3: down face to face with Donald Trump, to actually shape
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  Speaker 3: some of his thinking, to actually have a conversation that
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  Speaker 3: can get things into his head that doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: go through other advisors and mediators, and they were all
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  Speaker 3: hoping not just to shape some of his thinking on Iran,
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  Speaker 3: but also his thinking on Ukraine and specifically to try
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  Speaker 3: and put more pressure on Russia.
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  Speaker 2: And although the.
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  Speaker 3: Canadians and the Europeans and others are announcing some more
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  Speaker 3: sanctions today and there will be conversations with President Zelenski,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump left last night making absolutely clear that he
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  Speaker 3: is very skeptical of him putting more sanctions on Russia
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  Speaker 3: because he said it damages the United States economy. So
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a sense of deflation here. I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a sense also, as Nomi was saying, continued puzzlement
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  Speaker 3: and amusement about precisely what the President intends to do
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  Speaker 3: over Israel in the run, because the messaging is confused
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  Speaker 3: and it is mixed.
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  Speaker 1: Noman, let me come back to you, because we were
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  Speaker 1: talking an hour or so ago about that exchange on
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  Speaker 1: Air Force one with a CBS correspondent to who put
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  Speaker 1: to the President that his own national intelligence director had
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  Speaker 1: said that Iran wasn't heading towards creating a nuclear device,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, I don't care what she said. I
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  Speaker 1: think they were very close. So there was a very
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  Speaker 1: very interesting exchange there, and it begs the question who
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  Speaker 1: is Donald Trump depending on in terms of his intelligenced
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  Speaker 1: advice here.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was an extraordinary comment by President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: especially given that Tulsy Gabbard is part of his bass,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. In his second term, Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 2: very much surrounded by those who subscribe to his MAGA
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  Speaker 2: Make America Great Again belief, which does involve no wars
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  Speaker 2: by the way, unlike his first term where he had
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  Speaker 2: more establishment politicians as he would see it, but he's
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  Speaker 2: dismissed what she clearly said earlier in the year that yes,
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  Speaker 2: there have been constant suggestions, certainly by the Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Benjaminetta and Yahoo, that Iran is imminently about to
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  Speaker 2: have a nuclear weapon, but none of that has ever
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  Speaker 2: come to fruition, None of that has ever been true,
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  Speaker 2: leading to a lot of criticism by certainly those who
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  Speaker 2: don't want any wars in the Middle East or certainly
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  Speaker 2: want the US to be involved. That is this similar
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  Speaker 2: to when there were claims of weapons of mass destruction
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  Speaker 2: in Iraq with Saddam Mussin, for example, And so where
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  Speaker 2: he's getting that from? It could be from the Israeli
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Benjaminettainnahu himself, but we're not quite sure. But
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  Speaker 2: it does underline that Donald Trump does believe that that
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  Speaker 2: Iran is a problem, and he did say that he
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  Speaker 2: wanted something bigger than a ceasefire last night. What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean. We know that he has said that he
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  Speaker 2: Iran can't have nuclear weapon, But the only way that
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  Speaker 2: that could happen is if America does get involved, physically
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  Speaker 2: involved in what's happening in the Middle East. And again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we were saying an hour ago, if
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump does make that move, and there's no indication
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  Speaker 2: that he will, that could be hugely legacy defining for him,
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  Speaker 2: given that the people who voted him into office millions
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  Speaker 2: and millions of votes across this country had done so
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  Speaker 2: largely because of his no wars mantra.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not mere very interestingly, as you're speaking, the Reuters
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  Speaker 1: news agency is reporting that the US military is moving
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  Speaker 1: fighter jets to the Middle East and extending deployments of
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  Speaker 1: warplanes to bolster defenses amid this Israeli around conflict. That
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  Speaker 1: has come from US officials speaking to Reuter's. So again
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  Speaker 1: we wait to see any of the next moves from
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  Speaker 1: the White House. Let's go back to the GeV seven
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  Speaker 1: and James and aside from what is going on in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East, let me come back to trade and tarifs.
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  Speaker 1: We were listening there to Sakiir Starmer talking about the
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  Speaker 1: one deal that has finally got over the line. Did
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  Speaker 1: anyone else sitting around the table there with Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 1: But yesterday so many different countries where there are tariffs imposed,
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  Speaker 1: did anybody feel they had made progress?
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  Speaker 3: Look at these events, are not going to have individual
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  Speaker 3: negotiations over the Minu shie and the precise nature of
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  Speaker 3: those conversations, because it's not the format that these conversations
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  Speaker 3: have had in I know, the Japanese leader, the new
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  Speaker 3: Prime Minister, has been very keen to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: he can make progress on a US Japan deal on tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: So there have conversations taking place about that. The way
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  Speaker 3: the debate is shaped here is not about precise numbers,
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  Speaker 3: but it's essentially about getting arguments across to the American side.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll have world leaders saying, look, mister Trump, if
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  Speaker 3: you wish us to join you in dealing with the
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  Speaker 3: challenges from countries like China. Well, that's easier if our
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  Speaker 3: economies are flourishing, and not if you're damaging them. In
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  Speaker 3: the same way, the Europeans get the argument across, saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: we accept that we have to spend more on our
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  Speaker 3: own defense, that we've been free riding on the Americans
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  Speaker 3: for many, many years on this, but we cannot do that.
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  Speaker 3: We cannot spend more on defense if our economies are
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  Speaker 3: being hit by American tariffs. In other words, that's the
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  Speaker 3: nature the tone of the debate that's had about trade
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  Speaker 3: and tariffs here, rather than the minute of specific individual
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  Speaker 3: tariff rates and what may or may not happen. But
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  Speaker 3: as I say, that is a conversation that has been
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  Speaker 3: cut short because Donald Trump is no longer here, so
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  Speaker 3: other leaders here who have not yet had the chance
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  Speaker 3: to have that conversation with him. I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: to find another time for that to take place.
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  Speaker 1: James Landale there at the G seven, thank you, and
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Nami Igba Lyfross at the White House