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Credlin | 15 July · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peedo Krendlin Live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to the show. Well, what an extraordinary
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Speaker 2: weekend we've had. He's what's coming up tonight on Kredline
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Speaker 2: and Defire. Donald Trump has vowed to continue campaigning after
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Speaker 2: that attempt on his life, With the focus now turning
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Speaker 2: to the Republican National Convention, I'll cross live to the
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Speaker 2: US for an update on what to expect from the
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Speaker 2: convention as it officially kicks off tomorrow and what influenced
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Speaker 2: yesterday's events will have on the White House race for
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Speaker 2: both sides. Well, it's not just Labor and it's getting
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Speaker 2: concerned about the Muslim votue movement, but also now the
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Speaker 2: Greens pleading for the movement not to take votes off them.
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Speaker 2: In trying to use the pro Palestinian vote to divide labor,
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Speaker 2: it would appear the Greens had been hoist on their
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Speaker 2: own petard more than that. Shortly plus, serious questions have
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Speaker 2: been raised about the ADFS vetting process after an alleged
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Speaker 2: Russian spy was promoted as a case study for military recruitment.
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Speaker 2: No doubt this will put a damper on the government's
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Speaker 2: plans to have foreign Nationals serve in our army and
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Speaker 2: the Victorian branch of the militant CFMU is tonight in
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Speaker 2: administration after explosive allegations of standover tactics, backroom deals and
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Speaker 2: underworld figures being parachuted into lucrative roles has emerged, all
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Speaker 2: costing taxpayers and millions labor, state and federal. We're they're
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Speaker 2: running for cover as demands grow for the Union to
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Speaker 2: be deregistered.
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Speaker 3: Actions speak louder than words, and the Labour Party has
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Speaker 3: been very close to the CFMU. They've been taking donations
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Speaker 3: from the CFMEU for many years and the behavior we've
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Speaker 3: seen on these construction sites is completely unacceptable.
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Speaker 4: Our members have been complaining about this for a long
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Speaker 4: period of time, but they have been afraid to come
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Speaker 4: out for fear of retribution.
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Speaker 2: But first, Yesterday's attack and former President Donald Trump is shocking,
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Speaker 2: but hardly surprising giving the level of invective against him.
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Speaker 2: Had he been killed, America tonight would be in a
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Speaker 2: very dark place. As it is, there's one innocent person
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Speaker 2: dead and too badly wounded. There are big questions too
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Speaker 2: about how the shooter could have gained such proximity to
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Speaker 2: the former President and why the Secret Service didn't act
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Speaker 2: more quickly given warnings from the crowd.
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Speaker 5: I was up at the fence line, saw the guy
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Speaker 5: moved from roof to roof, talked, told an officer that.
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Speaker 2: He was on the roof. There was a life and
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Speaker 2: security somewhere.
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Speaker 6: I think that's having into all of us, and we
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Speaker 6: just don't know how that occurred. Prior to the President
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Speaker 6: coming out and speaking, we did have some concerns with
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Speaker 6: the crowd.
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Speaker 2: Much will flow from this near catastrophe. Donald Trump's instinctive defiance,
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Speaker 2: his raised fist response to the attack shows the fighting
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Speaker 2: the man that his supporters love. Now that's an image
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Speaker 2: for the ages. It's been said to have the presence
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Speaker 2: of mind seconds after an attempt on his life, to
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Speaker 2: process what's happened, and then to defiantly frame the image
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Speaker 2: as he did, shows to me as a political campaigner,
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Speaker 2: he has outstanding presence of mind. When Trump clearly didn't
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Speaker 2: want the last image of him on that dreadful day
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Speaker 2: to be a man hustled away by the Secret Service,
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Speaker 2: so he demanded they wait, and in that moment, he
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Speaker 2: reframed the image as a man of strength, the sort
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Speaker 2: of leader you would want in a crisis. All of
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Speaker 2: this deliberately done. It's the best use of a crisis
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Wait, wait.
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Speaker 2: Overnight. The Democrats, well, they've been forced to pull a
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Speaker 2: fifty million dollar ad campaign personally targeting the man they
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Speaker 2: so palpably loathe. Up until now, their campaign has been
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Speaker 2: all about Trump playing the man, not the ball. But
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Speaker 2: now their campaign is upended. The Republicans too, They will
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Speaker 2: have to change the way they campaign, given the now
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Speaker 2: obvious danger of outside venues that so energize Trump and
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Speaker 2: his campaign. Instead, they'll need to move indoors to more
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Speaker 2: secure stadiums and all that extra security. But that will
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Speaker 2: come with constraints, the availability of big enough venues in
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Speaker 2: states where they want a campaign, reduced flexibility in the
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Speaker 2: Trump schedule as a result, and the loss of that
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Speaker 2: element of surprise. Up until now, the media and the
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Speaker 2: Democrats often don't know where the former president might turn
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Speaker 2: up undil and days so before the event, and it's
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Speaker 2: worked in his favor. Well not anymore now as for
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Speaker 2: November's vote, as the famed Republican polster Frank Launce, not
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Speaker 2: a Trump fan, I should say, has come out to
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Speaker 2: give us information. He says that the current sympathy for
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Speaker 2: the Trump vote won't turn Democrat voters into Republicans, but
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Speaker 2: it will help to mobilize every Republican to turn out.
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Speaker 2: As far as his concerns, says Lunce, the Republicans now
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Speaker 2: they don't have an issue with turnout. Their base is motivated,
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Speaker 2: whereas the same camp you said about the Biden Democrats
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Speaker 2: for the incumbent president, the events at the weekend now
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Speaker 2: shift the focus off him momentarily after that dreadful debate
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Speaker 2: performance and escalating calls for him to resign. But the
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Speaker 2: reprieve for Biden it won't last. It's brought in time, sure,
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Speaker 2: and he'll be hoping he can just wind down the
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Speaker 2: clock until replacing him becomes almost impossible. But for many
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Speaker 2: in the Democrat camp, the wind in Trump's sails after
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Speaker 2: yesterday will make the need to change out their candidate
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Speaker 2: even more urgent. Today, in a short address from the
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Speaker 2: Oval Office, President Biden urged calm.
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Speaker 7: My fellow Americans. I want to speak to you tonight about
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Speaker 7: the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics.
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Speaker 7: The political regular this country has gotten very heated. It's
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Speaker 7: time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility
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Speaker 7: to do that.
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Speaker 2: Still, Biden and the Democrats won't escape blame for this
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Speaker 2: near dreadful miss given the abuse they can't help heeping
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Speaker 2: on their hated foe. Take this from the president himself.
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Speaker 2: It's time, says Joe Biden, to put Trump in the bullseye.
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Speaker 2: Now I repeat that, it is time to put Trump
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Speaker 2: in the bullseye. Reportedly said this by Biden in a
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Speaker 2: campaign call to big donors just a fortnight ago. And
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Speaker 2: here's just some of Biden's incendry tweets. Donald Trump is
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Speaker 2: the greatest threat to our democracy. Donald Trump is a
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Speaker 2: genuine threat to this nation. Trump poses many threats to
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Speaker 2: our country, the right to choose, civil rights, voting rights,
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Speaker 2: in America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat
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Speaker 2: he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that,
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Speaker 2: we lose everything. And then there's the weird efforts of
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Speaker 2: the anti Trump media to pretend that what happened wasn't
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Speaker 2: an assassination attempt. It took them some time to even
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Speaker 2: use the words assassination attempt. Even then, some like The
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Speaker 2: New York Times today, would only refer to it as
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Speaker 2: a shooting. Then there are even some crazy lefties online
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Speaker 2: who claimed this was some sort of Trump plot, a
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Speaker 2: staged event, something's set up for voter sympathy. Pretty hard
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Speaker 2: for that to stack up when you look at this
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Speaker 2: photo and an inch the other way and Trump would
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Speaker 2: be dead. It's all very well to urge calm now,
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Speaker 2: as the president has, but for a month he's been
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Speaker 2: whipping up fury. Now. Trump's rectoric hasn't exactly been gentle either,
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Speaker 2: But in the end, it's the country's leader who has
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Speaker 2: to take responsibility for the state it's in. And if
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Speaker 2: America today is more polarized, more fragmented, more combustible than
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Speaker 2: in decades, that's Biden's failure, especially given that he posed
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Speaker 2: as a healer but has governed as the country's most
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Speaker 2: left wing president ever. I don't recall that politicians should
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Speaker 2: pull their punches on issues. If something's wrong, I think
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Speaker 2: it should be called out, It should be called out
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Speaker 2: with great vigor. But the personal abuse that's crept into
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Speaker 2: an American politics, especially, that should go. If people disagree
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Speaker 2: they might be wrong, that doesn't make them evil. That's
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Speaker 2: a lesson the left here needs to learn as well. Well.
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Speaker 2: The Channel nine papers and sixty minutes have done our
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Speaker 2: country a great service with their ongoing exposure of the
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Speaker 2: alleged corruption and criminality inside Australia's most powerful union, the CFMU.
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Speaker 2: It's also been one of the biggest funders of the
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Speaker 2: Labor Party. Reports in the Financial Review, the City Morning Herald,
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Speaker 2: the Age and on television have exposed allegations of kickbacks, threats,
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Speaker 2: extortion and extensive links between the union and major crime figures,
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Speaker 2: not to mention the way the poor old taxpayers have
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Speaker 2: been ripped off blind to the tune of millions and
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Speaker 2: millions of dollars. Here's footage of the victorian CFMU secretary
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Speaker 2: former secretary as a Friday night, John Secker, who abruptly resigned,
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Speaker 2: delivering a suitcase to another union official, branding him a dog,
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Speaker 2: which is the ultimate union term of abuse.
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Speaker 8: I see down the driveway some sort of parcel package
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Speaker 8: or object. As a lot closer, I saw that it
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Speaker 8: was a suitcase type object with some words written on
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Speaker 8: the top. What were those words? The words were Leo
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Speaker 8: the dog. Leo the dog.
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Speaker 2: So what are we seeing here?
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Speaker 8: This is the family driver and the camera footage.
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Speaker 9: It's a fleeting moment. You can see for yourself in
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Speaker 9: this extraordinary clip.
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Speaker 2: And there is him right there, and there goes the bag.
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Speaker 8: There goes the bag in the middle of the driveway
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Speaker 8: and he scurries off.
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Speaker 9: If you think the figure is recognizable, you'd be right.
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Speaker 8: What does that footage show? At approximately eight ten pm
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Speaker 8: on Tuesday, the twenty first of May, John Seca came
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Speaker 8: into the driveway with a suitcase and placed it in
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Speaker 8: the driveway.
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Speaker 2: And here's footage of a senior CFMUU official abusing the
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Speaker 2: managers of an indigenous owned construction firm for seeking government
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Speaker 2: contracts without union approval.
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Speaker 6: You take your soul and I'll your.
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Speaker 2: Get an airw agreement.
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Speaker 9: That's all ry I to come on the fire mobs.
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Speaker 2: And here's more footage of union officials boasting that the
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Speaker 2: CFMU controls the Victorian government one hundred billion dollar big
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Speaker 2: build program, not ministers, not taxpayers, but the most faggish
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Speaker 2: union in the country.
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Speaker 9: So I'll tell you, so there's losses. All my friends,
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Speaker 9: we all will up together. I will take this to them.
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Speaker 9: They're gonna ask me two questions. One why am I
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Speaker 9: helping you? Okay? And two they want to be okay
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Speaker 9: because what they have to do, they have to look
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Speaker 9: at them, but they look at the big bill. They
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Speaker 9: look at it and say, oh right, this is yours.
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Speaker 9: But to put you there, they have to move someone.
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Speaker 9: So there's a fee to get the EBA. I think
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Speaker 9: that upfront fleees cash. But all you're going to do
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Speaker 9: you take the boys, make sure they're okay, and that's
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Speaker 9: it that the business and everybody ets.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Victorian Premier Justinto Alan refused to take questions about
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Speaker 2: her government's links with the CFMAU. Today, she fronted the
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Speaker 2: cameras and deny that she was warned about these issues
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Speaker 2: two years ago.
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Speaker 9: A letter from a subcontractor to you saying that they're being.
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Speaker 8: Subjects the violent threats and information that they were hively
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Speaker 8: black manned, and you wrote that. It took you a
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Speaker 8: year to respond, and.
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Speaker 2: You wrote back at hand order to the federal government.
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Speaker 2: Can't do that.
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Speaker 10: Perhaps it's outside of this room we can get from
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Speaker 10: you those documents that you're referring to. As you can appreciate,
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Speaker 10: it's challenging to respond to documents that you hold.
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Speaker 2: Oh come on, that is gutless. Those documents would be
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Speaker 2: on her office files. And this is the same just
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Speaker 2: into Allan, let's not forget she might be a new premier,
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Speaker 2: but she has sat around the cabinet table during the
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Speaker 2: whole time that this alleged corruption linked to labor has
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Speaker 2: gone on. I mean, this is where Daniel and Andrew's
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Speaker 2: got all of his power from and this is where
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Speaker 2: she now gets hers. As I said, good on Channel
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Speaker 2: nine for exposing this. But this isn't just the shame
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Speaker 2: of union officials allegedly enriching themselves via kickbacks, intimidating honest
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Speaker 2: businesses and consorting with organized crime. This alleged corruption and
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Speaker 2: criminality means that everyone is ripped off, with costs in
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Speaker 2: Australia's near one hundred billion dollars a year construction sector
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Speaker 2: about thirty percent higher than comparable costs overseas. The big
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Speaker 2: question now will be the response of state and federal
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Speaker 2: labor governments. Given the Union's intimate links with labor at
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Speaker 2: every level, it's hard to avoid the suspicion that the
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Speaker 2: federal Minister Tony Burke is a patsy for this crooked union.
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Speaker 2: Almost his first acting government was to abolish the Australian
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Speaker 2: Building and Construction Commission, the watchdogs that had taken dozens
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Speaker 2: of these CFMEU officials to court and had millions of
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Speaker 2: dollars of fines imposed As opposition leader Anthony Albanesi had
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Speaker 2: expelled sector from labor for gross abuse of women, but
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Speaker 2: that never stopped labor accepting CFMEU money or their votes.
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Speaker 2: Let's see what happens now today. The union poured its
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Speaker 2: Victorian branch into administration, but it's the whole apple that's rotten.
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Speaker 2: In the face of demands for an urgent royal commission,
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Speaker 2: the union's national boss said, trust us, we can clean
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Speaker 2: up our own mess.
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Speaker 6: The Union has always said that there is no place
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Speaker 6: for criminality amongst our ranks. If allegations are brought forward,
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Speaker 6: we have always said that we will investigate them.
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Speaker 2: In the nineteen eighties, the Hawk government deed registered the BLF,
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Speaker 2: the cfmu's corrupt and thuggish predecessor. Will the Albandiezi government
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Speaker 2: have similar courage. Let's see what our weak prime minister
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Speaker 2: does next. All right, let's got a camera now for
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Speaker 2: the headlines. Sky News political reporter Olivia Caisley good Evening.
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Speaker 11: Australian politicians from across the political divide have called for calm,
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Speaker 11: saying there's no place for violence in the democratic process.
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Speaker 1: Whatever people's political opinions are of either of the nominees,
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: Of course that kind of behavior is unacceptable.
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Speaker 11: They say the temperature of debate should be lowered.
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Speaker 12: Politics is becoming uglier and nastier, more polarized, more extreme.
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Speaker 11: It's a sentiment shared by US President Joe Biden and
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Speaker 11: an issue affecting nations across the world. Australian MPs have
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Speaker 11: seen their offices vandalized.
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Speaker 12: Democracies are supposed to help US men and moderate our differences,
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Speaker 12: not magnify and horrify.
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Speaker 11: And there's been an uptick in threats against Australian politicians.
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Speaker 11: Some MPs think to humanizing languages playing a part go.
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Speaker 3: Around and compare Trump to Hitler time and time again,
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Speaker 3: ridiculous comparisons, and so this sort of incident has been
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Speaker 3: a threat.
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Speaker 6: For some time.
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Speaker 11: Others say the incident is a wake up call.
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Speaker 3: It's the first such assassination attempt in the social media age.
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Speaker 6: In doing so, it provides a new vehicle for misinformation.
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Speaker 11: In disinformation, the Victorian branch of the CFMAU have been
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Speaker 11: placed into administration following allegations of corruption.
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Speaker 6: The union has zero tolerance for any criminality in its ranks.
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Speaker 6: We've always maintained that position. We are not a safe
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Speaker 6: harbor for outside criminal influences.
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Speaker 11: There are also calls for a Royal commission as the
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Speaker 11: Union says it is investigating the claims and will work
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Speaker 11: to address any illegal links, but the government says it
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Speaker 11: will intervene if the union does not properly address the issues.
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Speaker 10: Where allegations have been put to me, I have absolutely
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Speaker 10: taken action because I have zero tolerance for this sort
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Speaker 10: of behavior.
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Speaker 12: Overwhelmingly, the trade union movement this country is a force
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Speaker 12: for good, and trade union leaders are good, decent, honorable
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Speaker 12: people looking out for their members. But the CFMU and
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Speaker 12: Victoria under John Setka has been neither of those things.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to read my pale in a moment. I
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Speaker 2: short of apologize though, for those on Foxdale who missed
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Speaker 2: the very little bit the top show. We've had some
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Speaker 2: technical issues this afternoon, but I'm told, I tell me
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Speaker 2: my year, that's all been resolved. But a big week
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Speaker 2: of news planning for cover. Let's bring him a panel now.
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Speaker 2: Daily Telegraph National Affairs editor and hosts of The US
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Speaker 2: Report here on Sky News, James Morrow Pauline Hansen's chief
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Speaker 2: of staff, James Ashby, Well, welcome to you both. I'll start,
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Speaker 2: of course with the biggest story in the world yesterday,
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Speaker 2: I think pretty much the biggest story again today, the
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Speaker 2: attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It's still leading headlines globally.
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Speaker 2: James Morrow, first to you, are defined Donald Trump. He's
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Speaker 2: landed in Milwaukee. It fully intends to speak at the
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Speaker 2: Republican National Convention this week. It's just a day after
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Speaker 2: being shot in Pennsylvania. He's not officially due to speak
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Speaker 2: until Thursday. That's what he'll formally accept the Republican nomination.
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Speaker 2: But at the last convention he broke tradition and turned
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Speaker 2: up in day one. So anything's possible. And I think
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Speaker 2: after yesterday's assassination attempt, I mean, we're in uncharted territory,
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Speaker 2: are you space, Well.
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Speaker 13: We're in completely uncharted territory, PETA. And one thing on
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Speaker 13: note is that in an exclusive interview with Selena Zito,
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Speaker 13: Donald Trump said that he's basically torn up his entire
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Speaker 13: speech that he was due to give on Thursday night Friday,
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Speaker 13: midday our time at that convention, and he wants to
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Speaker 13: give a speech that is all about bringing the country together,
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Speaker 13: and he spoke very you know, movingly about how he
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Speaker 13: sees himself in this moment. And you know, I think
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Speaker 13: that we saw in the wake of that assassination attempt
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Speaker 13: and the way he basically pushed himself up and essentially
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Speaker 13: forced his secret service agents to stop and let him
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Speaker 13: reassure the crowd. I think we saw a Trump that
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Speaker 13: has convinced a lot of people that he is, in fact,
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Speaker 13: the real deal, that he's not just somebody who talks
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Speaker 13: tough on TV, but he's actually, you know, somebody with
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Speaker 13: quite a formidable character. And now I think going in
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Speaker 13: to this convention, you know, he's not an all count. Instead,
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Speaker 13: he's completely galvanized, I think, to spread his message and
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Speaker 13: his vision for America. So you know, we may see
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Speaker 13: him early in the convention, but he's also a showman,
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Speaker 13: so he knows that keeping him waiting is also sometimes
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Speaker 13: a good move.
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Speaker 2: James, I made that point in my editorial. I mean
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Speaker 2: the composure to do that, the presence of mind to
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Speaker 2: know that you need to reframe that narrative, reframe that shot.
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Speaker 2: It's not you know, an old man hustled away. It's
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Speaker 2: a defined leader. I think that was extraordinary, and I
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Speaker 2: think we are going to see something extraordinary in the
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Speaker 2: next couple of days in Milwaukee. Questions to you, James
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Speaker 2: Ashby being asked today regarding the Secret Service, Not only
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Speaker 2: you know, how did a shooter get so close to
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Speaker 2: the president, but it seems that there were people in
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Speaker 2: the audience marking out the young man, the twenty year
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Speaker 2: old Thomas Crooks on the rooftop, warning police. There were
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Speaker 2: certainly armed police there as well as the Secret Service.
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Speaker 2: There's going to now be a review. But the Biden camp,
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Speaker 2: the Democrats, they are under a lot of pressure for
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Speaker 2: their rectorc aren't they. Yeah, sure are.
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Speaker 4: And if anyone ever questioned whether there was such a
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Speaker 4: thing as a God, I think the answer is now known.
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Speaker 4: And you can also tell which side God's on, because
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Speaker 4: this was a significant event which occurred over the weekend, and.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 4: There should be questions asked about the security. More footage
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Speaker 4: came out today which indicated that people were trying to
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Speaker 4: get the attention of the police that were standing at
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Speaker 4: the back there and trying to say there is a shooter.
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Speaker 4: There is somebody on that roof that should be looked into,
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Speaker 4: because at the end of the day. I think it
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Speaker 4: was only those people at the back that probably distracted
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Speaker 4: that shooter, because let's keep in mind, he was only
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Speaker 4: about one hundred meters away from Trump, who was on
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Speaker 4: that stage. It wasn't a tough shot. I think he
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Speaker 4: was rattled and as a result, he missed the shot.
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Speaker 2: James, I want to get your comment on this twetter
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Speaker 2: I picked up today one hundred million pissed off Republicans.
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Speaker 2: It says zero cities destroyed. It's worth commenting, is that,
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Speaker 2: like the left, there's been no riots, there's been no looting.
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Speaker 2: Can you only imagine what might have happened if that
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Speaker 2: was Biden at the lecture.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, And you know, Peter, I think it's a really
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Speaker 13: sad reflection of the state of the left. But anybody
22:22
Speaker 13: who's lived through the last four years, the last day
22:26
Speaker 13: years in washed America closely knows exactly what this person
22:30
Speaker 13: is talking about. You know, we know that in twenty
22:34
Speaker 13: twenty we had all of the riots around Black Lives
22:37
Speaker 13: Matter and Antifa. We've seen civil unrest at the twenty
22:40
Speaker 13: seventeen inauguration of Donald Trump, and you know, here you
22:45
Speaker 13: have an act of political violence, apparent political violence aimed
22:50
Speaker 13: at the Republican candidate for president, to take him out
22:53
Speaker 13: of the race and take him off of this planet,
22:56
Speaker 13: quite literally. And you know what, everybody has been quite
23:00
Speaker 13: calm about it, and there's been no calls for retribution.
23:02
Speaker 13: There's been no calls for you know, division, and I
23:05
Speaker 13: think that that speaks to the character of Trump's supporters.
23:09
Speaker 13: And you can only imagine though, you know, and we've
23:11
Speaker 13: seen this before. Whenever the left is disappointed or upset
23:15
Speaker 13: by something, you know, the first thing they do is
23:17
Speaker 13: they call it the goon squad. And this is where
23:20
Speaker 13: we are in politics. And where does Joe Biden go saying, well,
23:24
Speaker 13: we've got to bring the country together, But you know
23:26
Speaker 13: it's his side that's so often responsible for tearing it apart.
23:32
Speaker 2: Well, just stay on that theme. Here's a tweet from
23:34
Speaker 2: conservative commentator C. J. Pearson and it raised the assassin
23:38
Speaker 2: who tried to take the life of President Trump and
23:40
Speaker 2: successfully took the life of a father of two was
23:42
Speaker 2: twenty years old. We need to have a serious conversation
23:45
Speaker 2: about what the radical lefts indoctrination of my generation is
23:49
Speaker 2: doing to our mental health.
23:51
Speaker 4: James Ashby, Well, there's a lot here that obviously social
23:58
Speaker 4: media is doing to people. Yeah, social media is whipping
24:02
Speaker 4: up a frenzy, not just in the United States but
24:05
Speaker 4: right across the globe. And I think, Peter, you and
24:07
Speaker 4: I are old enough and we've seen enough politics in
24:09
Speaker 4: our time to have seen discontented in other parts of
24:12
Speaker 4: the world. I remember in ninety six after I just
24:14
Speaker 4: finished high school being over in Indonesia when Mega Wardi
24:17
Speaker 4: was trying to run there and there were riots and
24:20
Speaker 4: a whole heap of things going on there. But let's
24:22
Speaker 4: not forget we've seen some pretty outrageous things. It's only
24:25
Speaker 4: that social media wasn't around back in ninety six. When
24:28
Speaker 4: Paul and Hansen first came to Parliament, she was having
24:31
Speaker 4: protesters that were bust in by the Labor Party and
24:35
Speaker 4: by some of the universities across the country, filling condoms
24:38
Speaker 4: with urine and feces and throwing eggs at those people
24:43
Speaker 4: who went to support her at halls and different venues
24:46
Speaker 4: that were hosting her talks. You know, it could have
24:49
Speaker 4: been a whole lot worse back then. Thankfully it wasn't.
24:52
Speaker 4: But this sort of behavior if you're on the wrong
24:54
Speaker 4: side of politics. Unfortunately, those on the left love to
24:57
Speaker 4: attack you, and they're often the ones that are violent.
25:00
Speaker 4: And that's been exacerbated by social media because people love
25:03
Speaker 4: to see their name in lights and people love to
25:05
Speaker 4: see their actions sort of put across the whole globe,
25:09
Speaker 4: in other words, gone viral.
25:13
Speaker 2: We'll come back to the Republican Convention and moment across
25:16
Speaker 2: live to the US. But I might add my husband,
25:19
Speaker 2: Brian's there. He's leading a delegation of sent and write
25:22
Speaker 2: politicos from all around the world. I spoke with him
25:25
Speaker 2: earlier in the day. I asked him about the security.
25:27
Speaker 2: He said at the last convention the security was tight,
25:31
Speaker 2: as tight as he had ever experienced. But he said
25:33
Speaker 2: getting through into the venue today was next level. He said,
25:37
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it across in a moment,
25:40
Speaker 2: as I said to Brad Palumbo out of Washington, d C.
25:44
Speaker 2: But let's go back home. Plenty of panic amongst the Greens,
25:47
Speaker 2: with revelations that the Muslim vote movement could cost them
25:50
Speaker 2: the prized target seat of Wills and Innocent in Melbourne
25:54
Speaker 2: and votes in the Senate. The Greens have reportedly told
25:56
Speaker 2: the Muslim vote to leave Wills alone, get out of
25:59
Speaker 2: the way of them. In the Senate and instead to
26:03
Speaker 2: focus solely on the lower House. James Morrow, surely the
26:07
Speaker 2: Greens don't think that their policies of transgender rights and
26:11
Speaker 2: drug reform will resonate with Muslim viters.
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Speaker 13: Well, I mean, I'm sorry, I really do kind of
26:17
Speaker 13: have to laugh here because it feels like things are
26:20
Speaker 13: accelerating so quickly on this whole competition between the Greens
26:25
Speaker 13: and the Muslim vote people. And you know, it's so
26:27
Speaker 13: funny because the Greens are just completely they've they've stepped
26:31
Speaker 13: on a rake here with their whole you know, you
26:33
Speaker 13: could call it the Queers for Palestine problem here that
26:36
Speaker 13: they've got. You know, they say, oh, look we're both
26:38
Speaker 13: real lefties on on Gaza and so on. But of course,
26:41
Speaker 13: as you suggest, you know, the Greens policies on everything
26:46
Speaker 13: for a socially conservative movement, you know, like the Muslim vote,
26:49
Speaker 13: Well that's not going to have any trucking. I don't
26:51
Speaker 13: think the Muzzlim vote are going to have any sort
26:54
Speaker 13: of tolerance for saying oh no, no, okay, well that's fine,
26:56
Speaker 13: we'll leave that over there for you. To the Greens. No, no, no,
26:59
Speaker 13: these guys are and just watch this is going to
27:02
Speaker 13: be real popcord worthy stuff.
27:06
Speaker 2: That is getting fascinating. Hey, just eight weeks on after
27:10
Speaker 2: he handed down the federal budget, the treasures out there
27:13
Speaker 2: today James saying that the budget surplus he forecast is
27:17
Speaker 2: about fifty percent bigger. Now this, he will say, it's
27:21
Speaker 2: a good thing. This will give labor more money to
27:23
Speaker 2: spend coming election campaign. But I mean, two months off,
27:28
Speaker 2: how could these budget costings be so off here?
27:34
Speaker 4: Well, this just again demonstrates whatever modeling they're using is
27:38
Speaker 4: often out and there has to be some resistance here
27:42
Speaker 4: by Labor not to go out and spend this money,
27:44
Speaker 4: as the Greens would have them do. I heard in
27:46
Speaker 4: the last week of sitting in the Senate there the
27:48
Speaker 4: Greens saying, you've you know, you've got all this money
27:51
Speaker 4: left over as a surplus, go out and spend it. No, No,
27:54
Speaker 4: that is not the purpose of a surplus, especially given
27:57
Speaker 4: the volume of debt that this country is in, and
27:59
Speaker 4: especially given the warnings that the RBA have given, and
28:02
Speaker 4: that is that if the governments across this country continue
28:05
Speaker 4: with their reckless spending, their continuation of these reckless handouts,
28:10
Speaker 4: what we're going to see is punishment when it comes
28:12
Speaker 4: to interest rates, and that is going to be felt
28:15
Speaker 4: by every single homeowner and every person that might be
28:18
Speaker 4: out there renting, because there's more chance that those people
28:21
Speaker 4: in a rental property it's probably financed as well by
28:24
Speaker 4: the owner. So there has to be some fiscal discipline
28:27
Speaker 4: here shown by labor. Well, it's a good sign they've
28:31
Speaker 4: got this added surplus, but be disciplined with it.
28:37
Speaker 2: Just quickly, James, Because I know what, James Ashby, you've
28:39
Speaker 2: said in the chamber, and you've watched swearing inns as
28:42
Speaker 2: I have. I watched the swearing in in the British Parliament.
28:45
Speaker 2: Kirs Starmer and a good proportion of his cabinet didn't
28:48
Speaker 2: swear an oath on the Bible or another holy book.
28:51
Speaker 2: They all ran with the secular affirmation. Nigel Faraja, I
28:56
Speaker 2: might add a swore an oath on a Bible very much.
29:00
Speaker 2: What labor do here now, Well, certainly that's my experience
29:05
Speaker 2: in the past. Did you notice this, Yeah? I did.
29:10
Speaker 4: The English have had this in for a lot longer
29:12
Speaker 4: than Australia. Of course, swearing and affirmation came in when
29:16
Speaker 4: we formed the federation and that was nineteen oh one.
29:21
Speaker 4: But gradually I noticed over the sixties and seventies, that's
29:24
Speaker 4: when there's been an ultimate shift to the affirmation, particularly
29:28
Speaker 4: by Labor, and more so in the Senate than the
29:30
Speaker 4: lower House here and strangely enough in England they've been
29:34
Speaker 4: allowing the affirmation since the sixteen hundreds. I think it
29:37
Speaker 4: was an act of tolerance that was passed over there.
29:40
Speaker 4: So bitter history for.
29:42
Speaker 2: You, and it always helps me identify where people stand, particularly
29:48
Speaker 2: on the so called conservative side with that one. Yeah, James, SB,
29:51
Speaker 2: James and Myra, thank you very much. All right, up,
29:53
Speaker 2: the break the lawlessness of the CFMU now out in
29:57
Speaker 2: the open. But the big question is can Labour crack
30:00
Speaker 2: down on a union that become so beholden to for
30:03
Speaker 2: donation millions plus will cross back to the US. As
30:06
Speaker 2: I said a little later on, we'll get back into
30:08
Speaker 2: the detail on the upcoming convention and what it will
30:11
Speaker 2: now mean for the push to replace Joe Biden as
30:14
Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate. Welcome back and across. As I said
30:22
Speaker 2: in the moment to Washington, DC, we'll get across momentous
30:26
Speaker 2: events in history over the weekend. But it's been a
30:29
Speaker 2: long time coming. Finally, the apporrent conduct though of the
30:33
Speaker 2: CFMU has been exposed. A month's long investigation by the
30:36
Speaker 2: nine newspapers has uncovered serious allegations of misconduct by the union,
30:41
Speaker 2: with claims of intimidation, standover tactics, and even underworld figures
30:46
Speaker 2: being placed in high paying jobs within the building industry,
30:50
Speaker 2: much of it being funded by you, the taxpayer. Now
30:54
Speaker 2: on Friday, ahead of these stories being published, the militant
30:57
Speaker 2: union ly the John seca abruptly designed today. The Victorian
31:01
Speaker 2: branch of the union was then placed into administration with
31:05
Speaker 2: an internal investigation to take place. So the union investigating
31:11
Speaker 2: the union, who's buying that? For more, we slept to
31:15
Speaker 2: bring in now the Shadow Attorney in General and Minister
31:18
Speaker 2: for Workplace Relations, Michaulia Cash. Thank you for your time, Senator.
31:23
Speaker 2: The Victorian branch, as I said, it is now in
31:25
Speaker 2: administration federally. Tony Burke says he's taking advice on the
31:31
Speaker 2: powers he has to respond to these allegations. Bob Hawk
31:35
Speaker 2: famously registered the BLF for the nineteen eighties and that
31:38
Speaker 2: was the precursor to the CFMU. Isn't that what we
31:42
Speaker 2: need now? Absolutely?
31:45
Speaker 14: And Peter, what a complete total and utterness and all
31:48
Speaker 14: because the Australian Labor Party have run a protection record
31:52
Speaker 14: for years and years and years of the CFMU. I
31:57
Speaker 14: don't know what advice Tony needs to take. The power
32:02
Speaker 14: is there in the Fair Work Act for the Minister
32:05
Speaker 14: to make an application to de register the union. Why
32:10
Speaker 14: hasn't Tony Burke done this? But what is more, the
32:13
Speaker 14: weakness of our Prime Minister is currently on display because
32:17
Speaker 14: quite frankly, he should have directed Tony Burke as the
32:21
Speaker 14: relevant minister to make the application. And Peter in relation
32:26
Speaker 14: to the union judging the union, I mean, what a complete,
32:30
Speaker 14: total and utter joke. The entire union has shown it
32:36
Speaker 14: is not prepared to clean itself up. Having one part
32:39
Speaker 14: of the safemy you judge another part is quite frankly,
32:43
Speaker 14: nothing more than excuse. It needs to be deregistered and
32:48
Speaker 14: Minister Burke needs to make that application today.
32:55
Speaker 2: You and I both know a lot of this behavior
32:57
Speaker 2: has been on the public record for some time. That's
33:00
Speaker 2: not always reported in the media. But before Labor abolished
33:03
Speaker 2: the ABCC, the CFMU paid out sixteen million dollars in
33:08
Speaker 2: penalties without the ABCC. How do you bring them to here?
33:13
Speaker 2: How do you fix this? Bess?
33:16
Speaker 14: We made it very clear to labor. If you abolish
33:19
Speaker 14: the ABCC, it is going to be disastrous for the
33:22
Speaker 14: construction industry. But guess what, Peter, six point two million
33:27
Speaker 14: dollars is the sum over the last four years, that
33:30
Speaker 14: is since Anthony Albanzi became the opposition leader that has
33:34
Speaker 14: been given from the CFMU straight to the Australian Labor
33:39
Speaker 14: Party coffers. So as little wonder that despite the warnings
33:43
Speaker 14: from the industry, despite the warnings from the Coalition that
33:48
Speaker 14: mister Alberisi his first act on becoming Prime Minister was
33:53
Speaker 14: to give mister Setka the construction industry, and they abolished
33:57
Speaker 14: the Australian Building and Construction Commission. And what's happened now
34:01
Speaker 14: Everything the Coalition said would happen has come true. Labor
34:07
Speaker 14: money talks, they have no principle. I have a challenge though,
34:11
Speaker 14: for the Prime Minister, Peter. The Coalition stands ready on
34:14
Speaker 14: the first day back in August to pass the legislation
34:19
Speaker 14: to restore in full, no excuses by the Prime Minister
34:23
Speaker 14: or mister Burke, the Australian Building and Construction Commission. At
34:28
Speaker 14: the moment, Peter, all we are seeing from labor, from
34:31
Speaker 14: our weak prime minister, our words will their words are cheap.
34:37
Speaker 14: Let's judge them on their actions. And on day one
34:41
Speaker 14: the Coalition will work with Labor to pass the restoration
34:45
Speaker 14: of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. Let's see what
34:49
Speaker 14: they do. I've said, will pass it.
34:54
Speaker 2: Sure they're given these revelations with Kaylia cash, Labor has
34:57
Speaker 2: to say it will not take donations from the CFMU
35:01
Speaker 2: of any form. I think I've got it here. Four
35:04
Speaker 2: point three million dollars four point three million dollars at
35:08
Speaker 2: the last election pay for to Labor, yep, by this union.
35:13
Speaker 2: Surely the Prime Minister has to say no.
35:15
Speaker 14: More worse than that, Peter. It's now six point two
35:20
Speaker 14: million over the time Anthony ALBERNIZI began to be the
35:24
Speaker 14: opposition leader to the Prime Minister. Worse than that in
35:28
Speaker 14: return for the money they gave mister Seka what he wanted,
35:32
Speaker 14: the six point two million, I think though, Peter, they've
35:34
Speaker 14: got to stay up front. They're never taking another cent
35:37
Speaker 14: from the union. But more than that, mister Alberzi should
35:40
Speaker 14: announce an investigation into the source of these funds. There
35:46
Speaker 14: are now very serious allegations that this money could potentially
35:51
Speaker 14: be proceeds of crime. So in the first instance they
35:55
Speaker 14: need to say no more donations accepted by the Australian
35:58
Speaker 14: Labor Party from the CFMU. But secondly, there now does
36:03
Speaker 14: need to be an investigation into the source of the funds.
36:07
Speaker 14: Australians need to know. Are the monies that have gone
36:11
Speaker 14: from the CFMEU to the Australian Labor Party part of
36:16
Speaker 14: proceeds of crime. There are now incredibly serious questions that
36:21
Speaker 14: both the Prime Minister and mister Burke need to have answered.
36:25
Speaker 14: And quite frankly, again is mister albin easy in hiding
36:29
Speaker 14: because he is failing to answer any of these questions.
36:33
Speaker 14: But ultimately who's paying the price, Peter, Well as you
36:36
Speaker 14: and I know, it is the Australian taxpayer because they
36:41
Speaker 14: are the ones that are paying more for these infrastructure projects,
36:44
Speaker 14: the roads, the hospitals, the schools. Australians wonder why they
36:50
Speaker 14: cost so much, will guess what. It's because of the
36:54
Speaker 14: protection racket that the Australian Labor Party, mister Albinisi and
36:58
Speaker 14: mister Burke have now for years run for the c
37:02
Speaker 14: at BBU and they are finally exposed. The Emperor, Peter
37:07
Speaker 14: has no clothes.
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Speaker 2: You are not wrong Senator Cash, thank you for your time.
37:13
Speaker 2: Just to underscore her point, they're thirty eight billion dollars
37:16
Speaker 2: is the cost overruns on Victoria's big build and it
37:20
Speaker 2: was at the center of those allegations on sixty minutes
37:23
Speaker 2: and through the nine papers. All right, well take a break,
37:26
Speaker 2: we'll go live at the US in a moment for
37:28
Speaker 2: reaction to the assassination attempt and what's happened to the
37:31
Speaker 2: campaigns of both Trump and Biden as a result, Plus
37:34
Speaker 2: a little later, serious concerns about the vedding processes of
37:38
Speaker 2: the ADF after espionage charges were laid against a former
37:44
Speaker 2: Australian Army private Welcome back, still to come. What the
37:51
Speaker 2: PM's recent visits to Queensland tell me about the election
37:55
Speaker 2: as he lashes out of David Chris A. Fuley over
37:58
Speaker 2: nuclear power. Let's return to the US election, with Trump
38:02
Speaker 2: not showing any signs of slowing down despite almost being assassinated. Now,
38:07
Speaker 2: this would have already been a busy week for the campaign,
38:10
Speaker 2: with a Republican National Convention set to begin in Milwaukee
38:14
Speaker 2: in just a matter of hours time, but with events
38:17
Speaker 2: over the weekend, focus on the convention is even more heightened.
38:22
Speaker 2: For more on what we can expect and where things now.
38:24
Speaker 2: Stating the campaign, let's bring in journalist and Washington Examiner
38:28
Speaker 2: contributor Brad Palumbo. Brad, thank you for your time. Great
38:33
Speaker 2: to have your company. Trump supporters will have never been shy.
38:37
Speaker 2: Even before the shooting, we thought we might see about
38:39
Speaker 2: fifty thousand people turn up in Milwaukee. What do you
38:43
Speaker 2: think we can expect now that the base is so
38:45
Speaker 2: fired up and that the events of yesterday seem to
38:49
Speaker 2: have completely dissolved any earlier party divisions.
38:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never honestly quite seen anything like this. The
38:57
Speaker 5: way that Republicans, even those who supported other candidates in
39:01
Speaker 5: the presidential primary process or those who have many criticisms
39:05
Speaker 5: of Trump are, they are circling the wagons. They are
39:09
Speaker 5: rallying around President Trump. And of course it's an understandable
39:13
Speaker 5: and human reaction to seeing someone targeted like this, with
39:17
Speaker 5: such a senseless act of violence. But it really is
39:21
Speaker 5: something to see Republicans coming together around the nominee. Trump
39:25
Speaker 5: was already doing very well on the polling, already had
39:28
Speaker 5: a very significant lead on Biden. But now, I mean,
39:32
Speaker 5: it hasn't really been long enough for us to observe
39:35
Speaker 5: directly any changes in new polls, but I won't be
39:38
Speaker 5: shocked if he's just absolutely soared ahead.
39:44
Speaker 2: One of the mysteries that will be solved during this campaign,
39:46
Speaker 2: of course, is the announcement of Trump's running mate. A
39:48
Speaker 2: lot of predictions appointing to Ohio senator and all through
39:52
Speaker 2: of the best seller Hillbilly Elegy, this is JD Vance.
39:55
Speaker 2: Do you think it'll be Evans? And if you do,
39:58
Speaker 2: what can you tell Australian viewers about him?
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Speaker 5: Well, he's definitely one of the favorites.
40:03
Speaker 15: JD.
40:03
Speaker 5: Vance is an interesting figure because when he first published
40:06
Speaker 5: his book Hillbilly Elegy, it was seen as a real
40:09
Speaker 5: insight into Appalachia here in America, a part of our
40:13
Speaker 5: country that's very much down on its times, has had
40:16
Speaker 5: huge problems with poverty and drug overdoses and other really
40:20
Speaker 5: tragic things. And he was actually heralded by liberal media
40:24
Speaker 5: outlets and really viewed at as somebody who was thoughtful
40:27
Speaker 5: and insightful. But when he decided to go into politics
40:31
Speaker 5: and became a Trump supporter, he became very unpopular. And
40:34
Speaker 5: he was also originally somebody who was very against Trump,
40:37
Speaker 5: but like many Republicans, became a significant Trump supporter. Ideologically,
40:43
Speaker 5: he's different than your typical Republican here in the US.
40:47
Speaker 5: He has more in common with Democrats on different economic
40:52
Speaker 5: policies like trade or regulation or governmental approaches to the
40:57
Speaker 5: economy than your typical Republican would, but he still has
41:01
Speaker 5: the populist element in common with Donald Trump that they share.
41:06
Speaker 5: So that's why people think he could be his pick.
41:10
Speaker 5: And he's definitely one of just a couple of names
41:12
Speaker 5: left in that consideration. The other ones that are being
41:15
Speaker 5: taken seriously are Senator Tim Scott, who is probably the
41:19
Speaker 5: most famous black Republican in America and has supported President
41:24
Speaker 5: Trump both now and they work together closely when Trump
41:28
Speaker 5: was president, as well as Doug Bergham, who's not a
41:31
Speaker 5: big name in American politics. He's the governor of North Dakota,
41:35
Speaker 5: but he's kind of emerged as a dark horse candidate
41:39
Speaker 5: for Trump's VP slot, as well as Vivek Ramaswami, the
41:43
Speaker 5: entrepreneur and presidential candidate, who is very He's a lot
41:46
Speaker 5: more popular with young Republicans, and Trump could pick him
41:50
Speaker 5: to try to energize younger voters and youthful turnout because
41:54
Speaker 5: he's a lot younger, he's a lot more in touch
41:56
Speaker 5: with online and internet culture, but he doesn't have the
41:59
Speaker 5: same political background or qualifications as some of the other candidates.
42:05
Speaker 2: All Right, Okay, from my mind, I think it'll be JD. Evans,
42:07
Speaker 2: but we will see. It's imminent. Let's going out of
42:10
Speaker 2: Joe Biden and the impact of yesterday on Biden's campaign.
42:14
Speaker 2: I mean, I think in the short term he's going
42:17
Speaker 2: to get a bit of a pressure valve out of this.
42:18
Speaker 2: It'll give him some cover. I guess from all those
42:22
Speaker 2: escalating pushes into last week that he go after the
42:26
Speaker 2: horrendous debate, but that won't last. I think he wants
42:30
Speaker 2: to run the clock down until it's too late to
42:32
Speaker 2: change him out. But given how a rejuvenated the Republican
42:35
Speaker 2: base is surely the case to move Biden on. You know,
42:39
Speaker 2: the base is locked in now, turnout is assured for
42:42
Speaker 2: the Republicans. Doesn't that mean the case to move Biden
42:45
Speaker 2: on has only got more urgent? Yes?
42:49
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean Biden is slow walking towards a historic defeat.
42:54
Speaker 5: So if Democrats had any sense to them, they would
42:57
Speaker 5: be doing everything they can to switch him out. But
43:00
Speaker 5: the problem is there's not really a mechanism or a
43:02
Speaker 5: way that Democrats can remove him as their nominee without
43:06
Speaker 5: his consent, without him going along with it, because there
43:09
Speaker 5: was a primary process, although it was very kind of
43:14
Speaker 5: unfair primary process, we shall we say it was very
43:18
Speaker 5: much skewed towards the president as getting the Democratic nomination,
43:21
Speaker 5: but votes were cast and he does have delegates, so
43:24
Speaker 5: they can't really remove him without his consent. They'd have
43:27
Speaker 5: to convince him to step down, which I just don't
43:31
Speaker 5: think he will. It's obviously what would be best for
43:34
Speaker 5: the country and for the Democratic Party. But I think
43:36
Speaker 5: Joe Biden has a bit of a god complex. I
43:39
Speaker 5: think he thinks I beat Trump in twenty twenty and
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Speaker 5: I'm the only one who can save America from Trump.
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Speaker 5: And what's interesting about that is that he did beat
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Speaker 5: Trump in twenty twenty, but he also looks like the
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Speaker 5: candidate most likely to lose to him in twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: four because a lot of things have happened in those
43:57
Speaker 5: intervening years. Joe Biden has declined, We've had as of inflation,
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Speaker 5: we've had a border crisis, and Trump has made something
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Speaker 5: of a comeback, you know, after twenty twenty and his
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Speaker 5: post election Shenanigans. He really had a fall from Greece,
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Speaker 5: but he's really made quite the comeback and kind of
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Speaker 5: moved on. And I think a lot of people view
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Speaker 5: his presidency more fondly as time goes on, as things
44:20
Speaker 5: get more hectic. So yeah, obviously Biden should drop out,
44:24
Speaker 5: but I don't think his ego and his narcissism will
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Speaker 5: allow him.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it will either. We'll leave it there,
44:32
Speaker 2: Brad Plumby, thank you every time. All right, after break
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Speaker 2: the eighty, after military vetting, the process needs an overhaul.
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Speaker 2: We'll get into that shortly. Welcome back. Let's ring in
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Speaker 2: my panel. We're tight on time. Skyn's contributor former Howard
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Speaker 2: government minister Gary Hargrave and Queensland memby LMP member Phil Thompson. Well, Jens,
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Speaker 2: I'll start with you, Phil. You've been in the military.
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Speaker 2: How on aw earth does the Australian Defense Force have
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Speaker 2: an alleged spy in its ranks? This vetting process, it's
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Speaker 2: got to get some serious scrutiny, doesn't it?
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Speaker 15: One hundred percent?
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Speaker 2: It does.
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Speaker 15: And if the blood soak dictator in President Putin can
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Speaker 15: be in an illegal war in Ukraine and still have
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Speaker 15: his tentacles run from the Australian Army back to the Kremlin.
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Speaker 15: We really need to be looking at where this has
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Speaker 15: gone wrong and where this vetting has fallen over, because
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Speaker 15: this should not be occurring at all. To have any
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Speaker 15: alleged person who is spying. I think that the needs
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Speaker 15: an overhaul and an immediate investigation should take place.
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Speaker 2: Not wrong up your way. The Prime Minister was in
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Speaker 2: Queensland Gary on Saturday. He's been up there quite a bit.
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Speaker 2: He announced a whole lot of new candidates. This one
45:49
Speaker 2: was for the Greens held seat of Brisbane. I'm not
45:51
Speaker 2: going to say a name. I'm not going to give
45:52
Speaker 2: a Green labor type of free ad here on Spine News.
45:55
Speaker 2: But he went in hard on David Chris A. Fooley.
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Speaker 2: He said if Christoph Fooley was to win, he would
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Speaker 2: walk away in his opposition to nuclear You know that
46:05
Speaker 2: Peter Dutton would roll over the top of him. He's
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Speaker 2: got his candidates out there across the board. I reckon
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Speaker 2: they see him ahead of a coalition in terms of
46:14
Speaker 2: their candidates and the volume of them, which says to me,
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Speaker 2: is really getting his house in order to go early,
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Speaker 2: isn't he?
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Speaker 1: Well, you've got a fine example of the many Liberal
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Speaker 1: National Party federal MP's already in place. I mean, I
46:29
Speaker 1: think I think they hold about eighteen or nineteen of
46:32
Speaker 1: the seats in Queensland. So look, the Prime Minister can
46:36
Speaker 1: take his inner city trendy, lefty nonsense and put it
46:41
Speaker 1: where the sun never shines. And look, Peter in the end,
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Speaker 1: David Chrystoph Fooley is campaigning on issues that he can
46:49
Speaker 1: campaign on. Peter Dutton is likewise saying if he's made
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, he will bring the nuclear moratorium off the
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Speaker 1: boil and allow us to get cheaper electricity. I think
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Speaker 1: that's the point. Dutton will rule for all of Australia.
47:03
Speaker 1: We're all in favor of all Australians and of course
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Speaker 1: cheaper electricity is at the heart of lowering the cost
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Speaker 1: of living. Elbow is just dissembling as usual, no policies,
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Speaker 1: no ideas, and the CFMU snapping at his heels.
47:17
Speaker 2: We'll stay with energy this interview. There's a big program tonight,
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Speaker 2: of course, sixty years if you're Australian, an interview by
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Speaker 2: my boss Paul Whittaker here, CEO of Sky News with
47:26
Speaker 2: Rupert Murdoch, and they were discussing Australia's approach to net zero.
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Speaker 2: Have a listen.
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Speaker 15: Do you think the net zero targets are achievable?
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Speaker 10: No?
47:37
Speaker 9: I think we're absolutely on the wrong trailer.
47:39
Speaker 10: I'm not a climate denier.
47:42
Speaker 9: I may bee a skeptic of some of the things
47:45
Speaker 9: I said, But you're gonna have blackhouse, you're going to
47:48
Speaker 9: have kitter living will go up all over the world.
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Speaker 2: I think mister Murdoch there Phil Thompson has summed up
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Speaker 2: where most of us are at.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, definitely, I think you need baslow power And to
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Speaker 15: say any anything other is completely factually incorrect because the
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Speaker 15: power prices, electricity price has gone up twenty one point
48:13
Speaker 15: five percent since Labour's taken office. We've got a Calli
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Speaker 15: power plant that exploded under the Queensland Labor Party more
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Speaker 15: than a thousand days ago. People are doing it tough.
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Speaker 15: You need baslow powerful when the sun's not shining, the
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Speaker 15: wind's not blowing.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I don't have to get to watch that at eight
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Speaker 2: o'clock tonight, that Sky dot Co and The Australian, the ABC,
48:34
Speaker 2: the sacked presenter, the radio presenter Antoinette Latooth, What the
48:37
Speaker 2: hell's going on over the ABC Gara. She wants an
48:40
Speaker 2: eighty five thousand dollars payer, an apology, and a job back.
48:44
Speaker 2: She said she was sacked because of her stance on Palestine.
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Speaker 1: Well, friends that let friends watch or listen to their ABC.
48:52
Speaker 1: You've really got to go out of your way to
48:53
Speaker 1: get sacked by them. And obviously she must have good luck.
48:57
Speaker 1: But I think she was shown the door for the
48:59
Speaker 1: obvious reason. And there you go. That's the end of
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Speaker 1: the story.
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Speaker 2: Really. See all right, gents, we'll leave it there, thank
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Speaker 2: you very much, and we're just going to go in
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Speaker 2: a moment. But I want to play some footage there
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Speaker 2: of Kate, the Princess of Wales at the tennis over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. I thought that was lovely, but a bleaker weekend.
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Speaker 2: It was lovely to see her there with her daughter Charlotte.
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Speaker 2: All Right, that's it for me. I'll see you tomorrow
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Speaker 2: at sixth He's Andrew Bolt.