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The Rita Panahi Show | 4 December · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scolds Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Window Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the readA Panety Show. Coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight. Communications Minister Anika Wells under pressure after revelations
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Speaker 3: she's spent over one hundred thousand dollars on a frivolous
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Speaker 3: three day trip to New York City. Daniel Wilde will
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Speaker 3: cover that and the day's other top headlines. Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: initiates a permanent pause on Third World migration. Mi Horowitz
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Speaker 3: will join me to discuss that never before seen videos
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Speaker 3: and images from Jeffrey Epstein's private island are released. I'll
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Speaker 3: get c. J. Pearson's reaction to that, and the reviews
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Speaker 3: are in for Megan Markle's holiday special and they're not good.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield would join me for the latest entertainment news
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Speaker 3: and Left is Losing It features these rational ladies from
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Speaker 3: the left heartland of Portland. But first hundreds of farmers
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Speaker 3: have blocked the Victorian government from accessing land it plans
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Speaker 3: to use for a renewable energy project. The V and
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Speaker 3: I West Transmission Line is designed to move renewable energy
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Speaker 3: from regional areas to population centers. Vickrid has been trying
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Speaker 3: to conduct surveys on farmland for the project, but on Tuesday,
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Speaker 3: farmer Ben Duckson denied access to his farm. Duckson had
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Speaker 3: the support of up to four hundred other farmers who
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Speaker 3: traveled to his property from across Victoria. He said farmers
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Speaker 3: weren't afraid of being fined or even arrested. He said,
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Speaker 3: I think we can double our numbers next time. Are
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Speaker 3: they going to find us all? They're going to need
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Speaker 3: to bring in buses and there's not enough rooms in jails.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is Deputy Executive Director of the Institute
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Speaker 3: of Public Affairs, Annual wild Dan. The state government's contentious
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Speaker 3: energy transmission legislation past Parliament earlier this year thanks to
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Speaker 3: the support of the Greens, Cannabis and Animal Justice parties.
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Speaker 3: This is terrible legislation. It undermines the rights of farmers
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Speaker 3: of all landholders, with officials granted the power to use
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Speaker 3: reasonable force to enter whatever land they deem necessary for
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Speaker 3: the construction of these transmission towers.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're right, this is terrible legislation.
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Speaker 4: It goes against every principle of our democracy, which is
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Speaker 4: that people get to have a say over what happens
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Speaker 4: in their community. The fact is that in Victoria, these
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Speaker 4: bureaucrats have untraveled powers to come onto farmer's land to
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Speaker 4: seek to erect these high tension, high voltage transmission lines.
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Speaker 2: This is dividing communities.
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Speaker 4: It's completely and totally unacceptable, and on a number of
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Speaker 4: occasions the individuals affected in regional Victoria have made it
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Speaker 4: clear that they're not going to allow access to these
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Speaker 4: bureaucrats and the government officials to come on to their farmland.
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Speaker 4: And you can completely understand where it is that they're
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Speaker 4: coming from. So look, the reality is that this is
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Speaker 4: not just a Victoria problem. This is coming to a
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Speaker 4: regional town near you. This is what the federal government
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Speaker 4: will do. We know that they are so woefully behind
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Speaker 4: on all of their targets that all across Australia, regional
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Speaker 4: farmers are going to be steamrolled by these unconscionable laws.
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Speaker 4: So you know, you can understand why so many in
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Speaker 4: those communities want to stand up for their rights.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 3: National Senator Matt Canavan has grilled Climate Change Authority CEO
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Speaker 3: Brad Archer over Australia's rising power bills. Have a listened
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Speaker 3: to this exchange if.
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Speaker 6: For a new Blenjie is the cheapest form of power.
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Speaker 6: How is it that Indonesia, who are investing so much
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Speaker 6: in coal, how is it how is it that they
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Speaker 6: now have industrial electricity prices according to the International Energy Agency,
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Speaker 6: at a rate less than a third.
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Speaker 7: Of Australias sooner.
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Speaker 8: I haven't done any analysis of Indonesian electricity prices, so
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Speaker 8: I'm not in a position to answer.
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Speaker 6: That's a bit of a problem. I mean, if we're
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Speaker 6: going to make advice on climate change targets, you'd think
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Speaker 6: you'd look at what our competing countries are doing or
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Speaker 6: competing for our jobs industry.
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Speaker 3: It's not done, Dan, I think it's a reasonable point.
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Speaker 3: They should know what is happening in neighboring countries and
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Speaker 3: competing countries and the impact on prices.
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Speaker 2: Well, of course they know, of course, I know.
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Speaker 4: I mean this is just merely mouthed weasel words from
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Speaker 4: a bureaucrat that's falling in behind the minister to support
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Speaker 4: and defend a failed policy that everybody knows has failed.
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Speaker 2: You know, if renewables are so cheap, why do we
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Speaker 2: need to subsidize them.
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Speaker 4: If renewables are so cheap, why are our power bills
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Speaker 4: going up. If renewables are so cheap, what are other
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Speaker 4: countries that have fewer renewable penetration or less renewable penetration
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Speaker 4: have lower prices.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that.
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Speaker 4: Sure, the wind is free and the sun is free,
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Speaker 4: but actually harnessing and generating electricity from those sources is
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Speaker 4: obviously not free. The cheapest power system in our country
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Speaker 4: is the one that we already have, and the cause
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Speaker 4: of the higher power prices everybody knows is the subsidization
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Speaker 4: of intermittent, low quality wind and solar power.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. The bureaucrats know it. Chris Bowen knows it.
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Speaker 4: Chris Balin's not going to be Energy Minister next year anyway,
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Speaker 4: so he's on the way out. They're going to sack
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Speaker 4: him so the government can crab walk away from these policies,
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Speaker 4: so that bureaucrat I mean, you know, this is why
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Speaker 4: trusting confidence in politics and in the government is at
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Speaker 4: a record low because of merely mouthed statements like that.
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Speaker 3: Do you see Chris Bowen being moved on next year?
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Speaker 5: Dan?
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Speaker 4: Oh, for sure, there's no doubt. I mean, they're already
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Speaker 4: backgrounding against him. So what will happen is because I
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Speaker 4: don't think the government's going to extend the bill subsidies,
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Speaker 4: the electricity bill subsidies, so people's bills are going to
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Speaker 4: skyrocket and they're going to need a way out of it.
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Speaker 4: So I think they'll crap walk away from net zero.
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Speaker 4: They're not going to dumb net zero the words of it,
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Speaker 4: because they're wedded to it. But Chris Bowen will go.
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Speaker 4: I don't think he'll even contest the next election, and
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Speaker 4: they'll put someone else in there and they'll slightly start
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Speaker 4: crab walking back some of the most nefarious parts of
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Speaker 4: the net zero targets. I mean, I think that's almost
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Speaker 4: guaranteed when they sort of kick off Parliament in February
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Speaker 4: next year.
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Speaker 3: I can see Chris Bowen at the un DAN. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you can. I can just see him
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Speaker 3: grand standing on that global stage. He would just be
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Speaker 3: loving it, So there might be a soft landing for him.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, they can throw him under the bus as
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Speaker 3: far as these disastrous, fanciful targets, so they've been pursuing
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Speaker 3: in the last few years now. Anika Wells, the Communications Minister,
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Speaker 3: was called out during a press club address yesterday for
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Speaker 3: spending over one hundred thousand dollars on a three day
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Speaker 3: trip to New or. The figures were released in response
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Speaker 3: to a cented estimate question and have a listen here
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Speaker 3: to Sky News reporter Reuben Spargo ask her about the
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Speaker 3: cost of this trip.
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Speaker 9: You don't think that was expensive for airfares over ninety
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Speaker 9: four thousand dollars.
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Speaker 10: I've answered your question.
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Speaker 9: It's been revealed your recent trip to New York to
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Speaker 9: Sprook this span cost more than one hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 9: for yourself and two starfas. Airfes cost ninety four point
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Speaker 9: eight thousand dollars, accommodation cost just under twelve thousand US dollars,
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Speaker 9: and ground transport cost around four thousand usd How do
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Speaker 9: you justify it spending this amount of taxpayers dollars?
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Speaker 3: Well, the reason you know.
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Speaker 11: All those things is because we're transparent about them.
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Speaker 3: Well, Dan, there you go. They have been upfront, they've
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Speaker 3: been transparent about the cost.
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Speaker 4: It's all okay, Yeah, they're upfront about how much they're
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Speaker 4: ripping us off.
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Speaker 2: By that. Good of them.
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Speaker 4: How do you spend ninety four grand on three people's
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Speaker 4: restrect flights? I mean, seriously, wasn't there anything wasn't there
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Speaker 4: anything cheaper to get. I mean, it's just an example
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Speaker 4: of how people like Anaka Wells just don't care. I
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Speaker 4: mean they're on the gravy train, they take it off
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Speaker 4: for granted. They don't care about what they're doing with
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Speaker 4: our money. And by the way, she was there to
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Speaker 4: spook a ban on social media for those Asian to
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Speaker 4: sixteen that she doesn't even know how is going to work.
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Speaker 4: They've got no idea how this thing's going to work.
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Speaker 4: They've exempted some platforms like Blue Sky because blues colost
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Speaker 4: dominated by a left wing echo chamber that supports the government.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the mask has slipped on this. How can
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Speaker 4: you say you're concerned about cyber bullying, for example, but
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Speaker 4: then you exempt certain platforms because they happen to accord
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Speaker 4: with the views of the government. So, you know, Anaika
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Speaker 4: Wells has got to go. I mean, this is a
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Speaker 4: policy disaster. It's a complete and total disarray, and now
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Speaker 4: she's ripping off taxpayers left, right and center. I think
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Speaker 4: that she's going to be shuffled out of that position soon.
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Speaker 3: Wow, this's going to be quite a reshuffle next year
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Speaker 3: if these predictions are accurate. But you're right, that's thirty
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Speaker 3: one thousand dollars per person for return flights to New York.
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Speaker 3: During that questioning, she said they didn't fly first class.
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Speaker 3: So if they're flying business class, how is it costing
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Speaker 3: thirty one thousand dollars per person? And it just shows
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Speaker 3: you what little regard they have for taxpayers money that
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Speaker 3: they would have booked those fares. They didn't spend five
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Speaker 3: minutes longer looking for something that was a little bit
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Speaker 3: more sensible than whatever the whatever deal they got here.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it just seems outrageous. Anyone who's traveled internationally
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Speaker 3: would know these fares are completely out of the realms
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Speaker 3: of normality. On the issue though, you mentioned Blue Sky's exemption,
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Speaker 3: how are they justifying that, because how can you possibly
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Speaker 3: ban platforms like x ban even YouTube, but then allow
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Speaker 3: the lunatic asylum that is Blue Sky to be exempted.
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Speaker 2: Exactly? I mean that I have a rationale for it,
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Speaker 2: you know. So this is the this is the entire
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Speaker 2: issue with the band.
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Speaker 4: If you've got to do it, it has to be one
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Speaker 4: in all in and you know, those of us who
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Speaker 4: had concerns about elements of it long thought that there
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Speaker 4: was a nefarious component to why they were banning it,
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Speaker 4: which was to control the flow of information to young people.
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Speaker 2: So if you think.
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Speaker 4: About YouTube or other platforms, I'm not saying they're perfect,
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Speaker 4: but at least it gives access to alternative information that
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Speaker 4: you won't get from the government, the mainstream media, or
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Speaker 4: from the education system. So one of the worst parts
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Speaker 4: about this ban is that it's going to close the
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Speaker 4: flow of information. It's government wanting to police debate. And
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Speaker 4: what that also does is it undermines some of the
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Speaker 4: legitimate grievances and concerns some people in the community have
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Speaker 4: about these platforms. But how can you say to Australians
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Speaker 4: that this is about keeping children safe, but then you're
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Speaker 4: exempting platforms that are left wing platforms that agree with
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Speaker 4: the government's view. So, like I say, it's been completely
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Speaker 4: bottled and I just don't think it's going to work.
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Speaker 3: And if you want to see bullying, if you want
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Speaker 3: to see some just vile posts, Blue Sky will provide
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Speaker 3: that for you. So it goes completely contrary to the
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Speaker 3: narrative that they're pushing here that this is all about
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Speaker 3: safety and protecting young people from being bullied online. Now,
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Speaker 3: before you go, I've got to ask you about the
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Speaker 3: Brisbane twenty thirty two Olympic Games. They've unveiled their three
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Speaker 3: words slogan to underpin the competition. The three words are Believe, Belong, Become.
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Speaker 3: They say the slogan is a short statement that will
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Speaker 3: act as a guiding principle. But Dan, it's a statement
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Speaker 3: that took more than a year to develop those three words.
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Speaker 3: It involved a team of six marketing professionals and consultations
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Speaker 3: with an estimated one thousand stakeholders that's enough across the state,
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Speaker 3: plus a further five thousand people who took part in
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Speaker 3: an online survey. Dan, That's that's a lot of research
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Speaker 3: for three words Believe, Belong, Become.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I really think that this came out
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Speaker 4: of an episode of Utopia.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you just can't make this stuff up.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you could put in you know, you could
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Speaker 4: put in some parameters into chat GBT and in five
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Speaker 4: minutes it will have come up with something better. It's
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Speaker 4: got nothing to do with Olympics. It's got nothing to
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Speaker 4: do I mean, you sho have some national pride, you know,
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Speaker 4: something that's going to bring us together as a nation.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's this vague bureaucratic terms that mean absolutely nothing.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this thing is just a complete joke. And
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Speaker 4: you know, you look at the cost. I mean, I
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Speaker 4: like the Olympics, and I'm quite happy for Australia to
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Speaker 4: host the Olympics, but it becomes a trough for bureaucrats
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Speaker 4: and consultants and these hr marketing types to get their
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Speaker 4: grubby mits all over it and they suck all this
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Speaker 4: taxpayer out of it. That's the problem with this when
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Speaker 4: it becomes bureaucratized, and you know, we've seen a soulless,
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Speaker 4: meaningless statement now, so I think it's incredibly disappointing and it's.
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Speaker 3: Not going to be remembered. It's not going to be
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Speaker 3: something that's doiled upon. So all this effort, all this
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Speaker 3: expenditure and resources spent to develop something that really it
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Speaker 3: will be forgotten very quickly. Dan, While thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for your time tonight. Joining me now is documentary
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Speaker 3: filmmaker and commentator Army Horowitz. Army, we have a lot
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Speaker 3: of ground to cover across the world, but I am
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Speaker 3: going to start in the US, and the Trump administration
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Speaker 3: is not just targeting illegal immigration, but it's reviewing migrant
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Speaker 3: programs with the President announcing a permanent pause on a
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Speaker 3: third world migration, It's clear Donald Trump has had enough.
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Speaker 12: The welfare is like eighty eight percent, the contribute nothing.
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Speaker 3: I don't want Tom and our county.
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Speaker 12: I'll be honest with you.
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Speaker 7: We would say, oh, that's not politically correct.
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Speaker 3: I don't care.
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Speaker 12: I don't want him in our country. Their country is
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Speaker 12: no good for a reason, their country stakes. These are
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Speaker 12: people that do nothing but complain. They complain and from
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Speaker 12: where they came from they got nothing.
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Speaker 13: You know, they came from.
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Speaker 12: Paradise and they said, this isn't paradise. But when they
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Speaker 12: come from hell and they complain and do nothing. But bitch,
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Speaker 12: we don't want him in our country. Let him go
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Speaker 12: back to where they came from and fix it.
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Speaker 11: MEI.
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Speaker 3: The President argues that America is at a tipping point
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Speaker 3: and cannot afford both economically and culturally to have people
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Speaker 3: coming in in massive numbers who have no affinity with
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Speaker 3: the country.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Look, I don't necessarily love the way he delivered that
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Speaker 1: message right really in Trump your way, but it's kind
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Speaker 1: of hard to disagree with a lot of the sentives
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Speaker 1: that he says.
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Speaker 7: A lot of what he said is true, and.
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Speaker 1: Particularly when we're talking about the Somalian immigrants, I think
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Speaker 1: who he was referring to specifically, Yeah, there are issues
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Speaker 1: with them, and we have to be real about them. Look,
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Speaker 1: the Somalians, they have a much lower level of English penetration, right,
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Speaker 1: just walk around the streets of Minneapolis as I have,
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Speaker 1: and you will find that out. They have much lower
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Speaker 1: education levels than we do. That's just and basically much
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Speaker 1: more education than almost every other immigrant level immigrant coming
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Speaker 1: into this country. They have much higher dependency on welfare benefits,
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Speaker 1: in fact, long term dependency.
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Speaker 7: They have higher unemployment rates.
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Speaker 1: There's more as long fundamentalism and and oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: Somali immigrants outperformed in terms of the kids they sent
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Speaker 1: to fight for Isis. Yeah, that's a problem, Okay, higher
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Speaker 1: than any other immigrant group. And of course they have
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Speaker 1: a very negative even though they take advantage of all
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Speaker 1: the systems we have here, they still have among the lowest,
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Speaker 1: the highest, sorry highest negative views on America, higher than
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Speaker 1: any other African group in particular.
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Speaker 7: So this is not really about race or continent.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the one of the most successful subgroups of
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Speaker 1: immigrants coming here are Nigeria's incredibly successful they know what
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Speaker 1: they're leaving, and they appreciate what they're coming to. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it bothers the President and it bothers me when people
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Speaker 1: come here and don't look. We guarantee, we guarantee opportunity here,
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Speaker 1: we just don't guarantee success.
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Speaker 7: I'm sorry. It's the nature of what we do here.
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Speaker 1: You have to pursue education, You have to fundamentally train
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Speaker 1: your children to love the country that's embracing you.
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Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: If the truth is we should be vetting certain immigrants
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Speaker 1: more than others, and for example, we should vet Somalian
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Speaker 1: immigrants more than we do let's say Korean or Canadian.
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Speaker 7: That just makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Don't love the way delivered that, But a lot of
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Speaker 1: it's just simply true.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you were in Minneapolis a few years ago
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Speaker 3: to speak to members of the Somalian community about their
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Speaker 3: ashtude to America, and you ask, do they prefer living
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Speaker 3: under American law or Sharia law?
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Speaker 10: Shari allah, I'm a Muslim, I prefer Yes, you prefer
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Speaker 10: Sharia law over American law?
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Speaker 7: Of course, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 10: And do you find most of your friends I feel
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Speaker 10: the same way, Yeah, of course. If you're musliminic. Is
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Speaker 10: it right to kill somebody who solves Mohammed?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Because she is just she had the religion, I understand,
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Speaker 3: But she shouldn't beat up the prophet.
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Speaker 10: You know, do you understand why people would want to
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Speaker 10: attack her. Yeah, you had a choice. Would you rather
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Speaker 10: here is love in the mother cousture? I rather live
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Speaker 10: in a Muslim country or my people? Would you prefer
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Speaker 10: to live in America or prefer to live in Samaria?
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Speaker 3: For me, I think it's somnia.
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Speaker 10: I would rather live in I'm not America, and I
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Speaker 10: just I just speak fluent.
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Speaker 1: And I'm you know what I mean, I'm ar ticket
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Speaker 1: and I can articulate what I'm trying to say, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean.
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Speaker 14: That's about it.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, I mean, as far as my culture,
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Speaker 1: my prefaces and everything, it's still Somoli, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 3: I mean, how widespread was that sentiment among those you
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Speaker 3: spoke to?
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Speaker 1: Incredibly white spread. It was almost every single person I
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Speaker 1: spoke to. And by the way, most of the people
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Speaker 1: I approached didn't speak English. As I said before, No,
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Speaker 1: look this is these views are antithetical to liberal democracies
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Speaker 1: in general in this country, in particular, and that one kid,
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Speaker 1: that one younger black kid who had the net the
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn nets had on really kind of highlighted how interesting
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Speaker 1: and disturbing it was.
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Speaker 7: And he said it in you know.
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Speaker 1: That look you look at me, You see a regular
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Speaker 1: American kid, right, look at a regular American black kid.
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Speaker 7: But I'm not. He goes, yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: Front that way, but in reality I do. I am
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Speaker 1: not fundamentally American. I am fundamentally Somalian. He was born
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Speaker 1: here in the US. I remember it was a while ago,
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Speaker 1: but I found that conversation so striking. Yes, it's incredibly problematic,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's wrong or racist to call
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Speaker 1: out the truth.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, now we'll get back to US issues shortly, but
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Speaker 3: let's see what's happening in Italy, where Greta Thumberg and
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Speaker 3: the UN's Francesca Albanese leading rallies around the country and
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Speaker 3: after getting herself banned from Venice for dying the Grand
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Speaker 3: Canal Green, Greta Thumberg had this to say to activists
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Speaker 3: in Rome.
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Speaker 15: I could tell you all in detail exactly how physically
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Speaker 15: repulsed I feel and how heartbreaking I feel every time
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Speaker 15: I think about the war criminals in charge, including your
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Speaker 15: fashion governments rather ruder.
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Speaker 3: Thumberg also said that Italy is one of the most
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Speaker 3: complicit countries when it comes to finance, military and political
20:02
Speaker 3: support to Israel, while Israel, according to her, conducting massacres,
20:07
Speaker 3: aco side and genocide.
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Speaker 7: Oh really, you know, you learn something new every day. Okay,
20:16
Speaker 7: let's go. Look. Oh she's such a potty mouth.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and you know, I call her stupid little girl,
20:21
Speaker 1: but that little that little gremlin is twenty one years old.
20:24
Speaker 7: She should should know many.
20:27
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, She's such a caricature that I'm
20:30
Speaker 1: not one hundred ccenty sure this isn't some kind of
20:32
Speaker 1: long cod.
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Speaker 7: Okay, she is such a joke. And by the way,
20:36
Speaker 7: you know when she.
20:37
Speaker 1: Was banned from Venice because she was pouring a green
20:41
Speaker 1: dye into the canal. Shockingly, the fine for that is
20:45
Speaker 1: only one hundred and fifty euros.
20:47
Speaker 7: That seems a little bit low. For yes, I found
20:50
Speaker 7: that fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, First of all, she talked about that how
20:56
Speaker 1: how complicit Italy is in Israel's genocide. Well, okay, the
21:00
Speaker 1: facts are is that Italy buys no weapons from Israel,
21:06
Speaker 1: and Israel buys. I think one percent of their defense
21:10
Speaker 1: budget goes to Italian weapons. Actually, I spent more on
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Speaker 1: Italian weapons in twenty twenty five in the state of Israel's.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm partial to the Burretta.
21:18
Speaker 1: So do not come to a Horwaritz household, people, okay,
21:22
Speaker 1: or you will find some fine Italian weaponry in your face.
21:27
Speaker 7: And eco side.
21:29
Speaker 1: Really, Israel is one of the leaders when it comes
21:33
Speaker 1: to agricultural sustainability, when it comes to clean tech, when
21:38
Speaker 1: it comes to solar technology. Okay, this is actually where
21:41
Speaker 1: Israel excels. I don't know what ecoside she's talking about,
21:45
Speaker 1: but yeah, she got it wrong on every single front.
21:48
Speaker 7: That's not shocking, not a news flash, you know.
21:52
Speaker 3: No, this is what we expect from Greta. And she's yeah,
21:56
Speaker 3: pivoting from climate change alarmism to anti Israeli protests daily
22:04
Speaker 3: almost so she's covering a lot of ground. Before you go,
22:07
Speaker 3: there's a bold new policy that's been announced, the introduction
22:12
Speaker 3: of Trump accounts, where every newborn is going to get
22:16
Speaker 3: a thousand dollars in an account that will be invested
22:19
Speaker 3: in select stocks and ETFs. This is going to be
22:23
Speaker 3: for newborns that are born between twenty twenty five and
22:27
Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. Let's hear it from Treasury Secretary Scott Percent.
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Speaker 8: It is the merging of President Trump's agenda of parallel
22:39
Speaker 8: prosperity Main Street meets Wall Street. For the next five years,
22:44
Speaker 8: that every child born in the US will get a
22:47
Speaker 8: thousand dollars Trump account that will be with them and
22:51
Speaker 8: compound for the next eighteen years. Treasury Department, with other
22:56
Speaker 8: branches of government is going to do financial literacy and
23:00
Speaker 8: are going to make sure that all American families have
23:04
Speaker 8: a stake in the success of the United States of America.
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Speaker 3: Ammy, I suspect you're not a fan of this new plan.
23:12
Speaker 3: What do you think.
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Speaker 7: I don't know. I think I take offense to that.
23:17
Speaker 7: What do you read a come on, I don't know.
23:21
Speaker 3: I just had this failing No.
23:24
Speaker 7: Actually, I think it's great. I think it's wonderful.
23:26
Speaker 1: Particularly there's a lot of money coming from donations and
23:28
Speaker 1: the delve Nation has given billions of dollars toy.
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Speaker 7: No, I'm all for it.
23:32
Speaker 1: And you know again, I was told that we know
23:35
Speaker 1: math on this interview, but yet I'm forced to do
23:38
Speaker 1: some math. Yeah, if you at birth was given one
23:42
Speaker 1: thousand dollars account, and it was put in the S
23:44
Speaker 1: and P five hundred se hundred five hundred. The last
23:47
Speaker 1: fifty years turned ten point five percent. So if that
23:50
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars was kept the account compounding every year
23:53
Speaker 1: even after eighteen, if you continue to reinvesting it in
23:56
Speaker 1: the SP five hundred, that one thousand dollars when you
24:00
Speaker 1: were born by a retirement age will come up to
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Speaker 1: over six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars upon retorn. Wow,
24:08
Speaker 1: that's real money for people starting By the way, it
24:11
Speaker 1: shows you the brilliance of compound investing and capitalism.
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Speaker 7: So there you go.
24:18
Speaker 3: It does. And you mentioned the Dells there. The couple
24:21
Speaker 3: were there standing with President Trump. They've donated at six
24:25
Speaker 3: point five billion to this. It's just incredibly generous. Mi Horowitz,
24:30
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time. Always a pleasure
24:34
Speaker 3: still to come. Lefties Losing It and never before seen
24:38
Speaker 3: videos and images from Jeffrey Epstein's Private Island. C. J.
24:43
Speaker 3: Pearson is up next. You're watching the Reader Panehy Show,
24:56
Speaker 3: and it's time for Lefties Losing It. Scotland has been
25:01
Speaker 3: called the most socialist city in the US. It has
25:04
Speaker 3: a reputation as a place full of hard left lunatics.
25:08
Speaker 3: I can't imagine why. It's not like these lefties get
25:11
Speaker 3: together and just scream into the void once a week
25:27
Speaker 3: to New York now, and here is United Methodist Church
25:30
Speaker 3: pastor Phil Faneuf using a sermon to announce he is transitioning.
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Speaker 11: The best way to put this is that I'm not
25:40
Speaker 11: becoming a woman. I'm giving up pretending to be a man.
25:44
Speaker 11: Know they clothes, they're just fibers. They do not carry
25:48
Speaker 11: an anatomy with them. So to say that something as
25:51
Speaker 11: girls clothes or boys clothes, well, they don't come with
25:54
Speaker 11: a reproductive system. Amen, So we'll change my voice. They
26:00
Speaker 11: might go with tad higher.
26:03
Speaker 10: Pronounced she her.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to La now, where protesters have been taking
26:08
Speaker 3: over roads and preventing people from getting to their flights.
26:12
Speaker 3: Just look at how much they care about ruining people's
26:15
Speaker 3: travel plans.
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Speaker 9: I don't remember why.
26:29
Speaker 3: Earlier this week I brought you a disturbing clip of
26:32
Speaker 3: Jim Acosta in conversation with Rosie O'Donnell, and I say
26:36
Speaker 3: disturbing not just because of the wacky, delusional, downright loopy dialogue,
26:41
Speaker 3: but also because these two look far too much alike.
26:45
Speaker 3: And here is more of the same, more wacky, delusional,
26:48
Speaker 3: downright loopy dialogue between two look alikes. This time it's
26:53
Speaker 3: EMSN Now anchor Rachel Maddow and soon to be unemployed
26:58
Speaker 3: late night TV hosts Stephen Colbert. Listen as matt Out
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Speaker 3: doubles down here on the Russian collusion hoax that she
27:06
Speaker 3: ran for years. She's not sorry for the lies and misinformation.
27:10
Speaker 3: She's back to pushing the same debunked narrative, the.
27:17
Speaker 16: Paul Putin and Trump thing that was so weird for
27:20
Speaker 16: all those years, which a lot of us reported on
27:22
Speaker 16: a lot at the time and.
27:23
Speaker 7: Got a lot of pussle for it.
27:25
Speaker 16: I'm just saying it kind of seems like that's now
27:27
Speaker 16: paid off, with the Kremlin actually running US foreign policy
27:30
Speaker 16: through the President's Dufis golf friend.
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Speaker 3: Yep, she really just said the Kremlin is running US
27:38
Speaker 3: foreign policy. Just when you think she's hit rock bottom,
27:42
Speaker 3: she finds anilo.
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Speaker 16: And now we apparently have been captured by the Kremlin
27:46
Speaker 16: and work for Vladimir Putin's They've got a kleptocratic, sclerotic
27:52
Speaker 16: government run by a guy who's never going to leave
27:55
Speaker 16: until he dies.
27:56
Speaker 7: The idea that.
27:57
Speaker 16: We work for him, that we work for them, is
28:00
Speaker 16: so humiliating, and it's such an abject failure on the
28:04
Speaker 16: part of Trump in terms of his weakness. I don't
28:06
Speaker 16: know what Putin has on him, but he works for
28:09
Speaker 16: Putin and it's an embarrassment to this country.
28:12
Speaker 3: What can you say, actually unhinged, fact free, divorce from reality,
28:18
Speaker 3: paranoid fantasies that Stephen Colbert did not push back on once,
28:24
Speaker 3: not one bit. Now the Democrats and the propagandists are
28:29
Speaker 3: desperate to claim that America has committed war crimes by
28:33
Speaker 3: eliminating a narco boat and Narco terrorist drug runners who
28:38
Speaker 3: were trying to bring in huge amounts of deadly drugs
28:42
Speaker 3: into the country, and now persisting with this daft narrative,
28:46
Speaker 3: even as the New York Times, Yes, the Trump deranged
28:49
Speaker 3: New York Times debunks the Washington Posts kill everybody hoax.
28:55
Speaker 3: That was a claim that War Secretary Pete Hegzet gave
28:59
Speaker 3: a kill everybody order. But we still have the likes
29:03
Speaker 3: of ms now putting to air Democrat operatives like this
29:08
Speaker 3: next character, Leon Panetta. This is the man who ran
29:13
Speaker 3: the CIA under Barack Obama. That was during Barak's first term,
29:19
Speaker 3: when he was a droning people left right and center,
29:23
Speaker 3: including Americans. This is the guy that ms NOW put
29:28
Speaker 3: to air for this sober analysis.
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Speaker 17: There is no lawyer that I am aware of who
29:36
Speaker 17: indicates that that second strike is not a war crime.
29:41
Speaker 17: These were individuals in the water who were wounded. It
29:45
Speaker 17: is against the law to strike and kill those individuals.
29:49
Speaker 17: They did that. As far as I'm concerned, there is
29:53
Speaker 17: a war crime involved here, and it's for that reason
29:56
Speaker 17: that I think we need to hold people accountable.
30:01
Speaker 3: And just to drive home how little credibility that character has.
30:05
Speaker 3: This is the same Leon Panetta who claimed, with fifty
30:10
Speaker 3: other anti Trump intelligence experts, they all claim that Hunter
30:15
Speaker 3: Biden's laptop was a Russian plot, that it wasn't real.
30:20
Speaker 3: These characters deliberately influenced an election by putting their names
30:25
Speaker 3: to that outrageously. Joining me now is political advisor and
30:30
Speaker 3: commentator CJ. Pearson. This is just the latest manufactured crisis
30:37
Speaker 3: we've seen, but as always, so many in the media
30:41
Speaker 3: are very excited about it and just running this uncritically.
30:47
Speaker 14: You know, you're exactly right, Rita, and thank you so
30:49
Speaker 14: much for having me.
30:50
Speaker 18: And they're always excited to drag down this president, distract
30:52
Speaker 18: from the incredible and important work that he's doing every
30:54
Speaker 18: single day, deliver for the American people upon the mandate
30:58
Speaker 18: in which he was given when he was resounding the
30:59
Speaker 18: election to be president, not just.
31:01
Speaker 14: With the popular vote, electoral college as well.
31:03
Speaker 18: Here's the deal when it comes to be hexf's actions
31:06
Speaker 18: as it relates to this particular issue, here's actually my
31:09
Speaker 18: case for it. I'm actually glad that we have a
31:11
Speaker 18: Secretary of war who is going to kill the narco
31:13
Speaker 18: terrorists before they kill American citizens. This is not the
31:16
Speaker 18: winning issue that the left thinks that it is. These
31:18
Speaker 18: people have traffic fitting on to our country, killed our children,
31:21
Speaker 18: killed our daughters, killed our sons, and now we're supposed
31:23
Speaker 18: to just sit back with our hands tied behind our
31:26
Speaker 18: back because it upsets the proclivities and the sensitivities of
31:29
Speaker 18: those in the left.
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Speaker 14: I'm sorry, I don't think the American people are going
31:33
Speaker 14: to go for that.
31:34
Speaker 3: It does seem to be a bit of a losing issue.
31:37
Speaker 3: I don't know why they're going in so hard with this,
31:39
Speaker 3: because we are talking about drug traffickers, and not small
31:43
Speaker 3: scale drug traffickers, but we're talking large amounts that could
31:47
Speaker 3: potentially kill thousands of people. Now, let's discuss the cost
31:52
Speaker 3: of living. And here is CNN bringing some good news
31:56
Speaker 3: and this must have hurt them some.
31:59
Speaker 16: Stat seeing gas is below three dollars for the first
32:02
Speaker 16: time in years.
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Speaker 7: Let's get to see and as Matt Egan for the
32:04
Speaker 7: good news.
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Speaker 16: On this, Yeah, absolutely, it's nice to finally be here
32:07
Speaker 16: with some good news on the cost of living front.
32:09
Speaker 16: So for the first time in four and a half years,
32:12
Speaker 16: gas prices are averaging three dollars a gallon National in court.
32:17
Speaker 3: In triple a CJ. That report went on to say
32:21
Speaker 3: that there are twenty states across the country where the
32:24
Speaker 3: average price of gas is less than two dollars seventy
32:27
Speaker 3: five a gallon. How big a deal is that? Is
32:31
Speaker 3: cost of living still at top tier issue?
32:35
Speaker 18: Is it the top tier issoe Yeah, it's definitely a
32:38
Speaker 18: top two issue here in the States. You know, we're
32:40
Speaker 18: seeing that people don't only want to see him make
32:42
Speaker 18: you know, make America great again. They want to see
32:44
Speaker 18: America made affordable again. And President Trump is doing all
32:47
Speaker 18: that he can do to lead on that front. We're
32:49
Speaker 18: not only seeing, of course, gas prices go down, but
32:51
Speaker 18: we also saw this past month the median price of
32:54
Speaker 18: rent go down as well, And so I think these
32:56
Speaker 18: things are incredible, you know, steps in the right direction
32:59
Speaker 18: to and sure that the American Dreamer remains within the
33:02
Speaker 18: grass of you know, the American people, and I think
33:05
Speaker 18: that they're welcoming it. And also too, it goes to
33:07
Speaker 18: show that we don't need socialism to actually rate this ship.
33:10
Speaker 18: We don't need the vision of xoron Mam Donnie to
33:13
Speaker 18: fix this problem. Capitalist solutions do work, hard work policies
33:17
Speaker 18: do work, and I think that's exactly what we'll see
33:20
Speaker 18: more of from this president in the months and years
33:22
Speaker 18: to come.
33:23
Speaker 3: Now, CJ. Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee have
33:28
Speaker 3: released never before seen videos and images from Epstein's private island,
33:33
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein's private island, And I have to say, CJ,
33:37
Speaker 3: the whole thing is rather creepy and depressing, its stark scenery,
33:43
Speaker 3: ugly furniture. But it's a quickly emerged after this footage
33:49
Speaker 3: was released that the Democrats who are demanding full transparency
33:53
Speaker 3: have again redacted information, and that is information and images
33:59
Speaker 3: that segative journalist James A. Cafe had already released. Why
34:04
Speaker 3: are they doing this? They did this with the email
34:07
Speaker 3: release a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, they were adapting this invervation because it
34:11
Speaker 18: probably implicates them. You know, if you look at all
34:14
Speaker 18: that footage, I would have to ask whether or not
34:16
Speaker 18: that footage actually came from Bill Clinton's metaglasses.
34:18
Speaker 14: But I know they didn't have those back in.
34:19
Speaker 18: The day, you know, because of course he had a
34:21
Speaker 18: first hand view of everything that was going on in
34:23
Speaker 18: that island, because he was a frequent visitor to that island.
34:26
Speaker 18: And so you know, the Democrats again have tried to
34:29
Speaker 18: milk this so called scandal for all that it is.
34:31
Speaker 18: It's actually really unfortunate because it distracts from the real
34:34
Speaker 18: victims of Epstein's depraved actions. Those people deserve justice, and
34:38
Speaker 18: I think that Republicans the Democrats both agree on that front.
34:42
Speaker 18: But the way in which the Democrats have sought to
34:43
Speaker 18: politicize this issue, and they showed that they did not
34:45
Speaker 18: give a damn about it until this president was in office,
34:49
Speaker 18: it tells you everything they need, everything you need to
34:51
Speaker 18: know about their actual intentions and their sincerity when it
34:54
Speaker 18: comes to justice being brought to the victims of Epstein's
34:57
Speaker 18: terrible crimes.
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Speaker 3: Hey, we've been talking about the Trump administration cracking down
35:03
Speaker 3: on fraud in Minnesota, and we've also heard President Trump's
35:07
Speaker 3: damning comments about Democrat elin omer Well, let's hear from
35:12
Speaker 3: the congresswoman always been.
35:14
Speaker 13: A racist, bigot, a senophobic, and islamophobic. We know that
35:20
Speaker 13: he called African nations in his first administration.
35:25
Speaker 3: Most of us are citizens.
35:27
Speaker 19: On our passport, it says we are nationals of this country.
35:30
Speaker 19: We love that Minnesota has welcomed us. Many of us
35:34
Speaker 19: have not been settled in Minnesota. We choose it as
35:36
Speaker 19: a whome because the Minnesota people and the state is
35:40
Speaker 19: beautiful and very welcoming, and we are going to be
35:43
Speaker 19: here regardless of what the President has to say.
35:46
Speaker 3: I almost thought for a second there she was going
35:48
Speaker 3: to say, we love this country. I think it's pretty
35:51
Speaker 3: clear that elin Omar does not love America. But what
35:56
Speaker 3: do you think about the clash between her and Trump?
36:00
Speaker 3: And do you feel that those who have been granted
36:03
Speaker 3: asylum and a second chance at life in America have
36:08
Speaker 3: an obligation to be patriotic and at least be a
36:11
Speaker 3: little bit grateful to their new homeland.
36:15
Speaker 14: You know, I would definitely agree with that.
36:17
Speaker 18: You don't get to flee one country and try to
36:19
Speaker 18: turn our country to the third world country that you fled.
36:22
Speaker 18: It's just not doesn't really make much sense to me
36:24
Speaker 18: as to why we would allow that as a part
36:26
Speaker 18: of government policy. But I'll tell you now, I'm not
36:28
Speaker 18: surprised to see Ilhan Omar and President Trump on opposite
36:31
Speaker 18: the size of this issue and many other issues, because
36:33
Speaker 18: the inherent difference between the two of them is that
36:36
Speaker 18: that our president, President Trump loves this country.
36:38
Speaker 14: She does not love this country.
36:40
Speaker 18: You I couldn't readily actually recall any single moment when
36:43
Speaker 18: she has said anything glowing about the United States of
36:46
Speaker 18: America at any time. I could tell you when she
36:48
Speaker 18: said great things about Somoya, a country that she refuses
36:51
Speaker 18: to go back to, But I cannot tell you when
36:54
Speaker 18: she has ever said something about why America is great,
36:57
Speaker 18: why she continued to be great. And I think I
37:00
Speaker 18: should tell you everything about her and her politics.
37:04
Speaker 7: Now.
37:04
Speaker 3: CJ there reports that the Justice Department is close to
37:07
Speaker 3: a decision on whether to seek new indictments against former
37:11
Speaker 3: FBI Director James Comy and New York Attorney General Leticia James,
37:16
Speaker 3: a Democrat, appointed federal judge dismissed the cases against Comy
37:21
Speaker 3: and James on a technicality, but without prejudice, meaning these
37:28
Speaker 3: charges can be refiled.
37:30
Speaker 18: You know, you're exactly right, Red. I'm so glad you
37:32
Speaker 18: brought up that point. You know, the judge, you're not
37:34
Speaker 18: ruling the merit of this case and anyone whatsoever. You're
37:37
Speaker 18: not ruling the guilt of James COVID, you're not ruling
37:39
Speaker 18: the guilt.
37:39
Speaker 14: Of Leticia James.
37:41
Speaker 18: And so these cases can be refiled and they can
37:43
Speaker 18: be seen in a new light. And so I hope
37:46
Speaker 18: that that is exactly what the DOJ will do. I
37:49
Speaker 18: believe that that is what will happen based on that
37:51
Speaker 18: conversation with those in the building. And the reason I
37:54
Speaker 18: think that's so important is I think it's important that
37:56
Speaker 18: we make the case that no one is above the lot.
37:58
Speaker 18: It's matter if you're Attorney General of New York or
38:01
Speaker 18: if you're the former FBI director, you will be held
38:04
Speaker 18: accountable if you break the law. And there's a strong
38:06
Speaker 18: evidence suggests that that's exactly what they did.
38:10
Speaker 3: President Trump has been all about returning manufacturing back to America,
38:15
Speaker 3: and he plans to reset fuel efficiency standards for cars
38:20
Speaker 3: in an effort to boost manufacturing and lower prices. Let's
38:25
Speaker 3: hear from the President and then the Ford CEO, Jim Farley.
38:30
Speaker 12: You know, I want the auto workers vote, but now
38:33
Speaker 12: even the head of the Auto workers that Trump is
38:35
Speaker 12: the greatest president we've ever seen, and he happens to
38:39
Speaker 12: be right about that.
38:42
Speaker 20: We were number two last year in ev sales, we
38:44
Speaker 20: were number three in hybrid, and we're the leading brand
38:47
Speaker 20: for combustion. We believe that people should be able to
38:50
Speaker 20: make a choice, as you said, mister President, and we
38:53
Speaker 20: will invest more in affordable vehicles. This allows us to
38:59
Speaker 20: invest in affordable vehicles made in the US aj.
39:03
Speaker 3: The previous rules under the Biden administration we're all aimed
39:08
Speaker 3: about focused on lowering carbon emissions and putting upward pressure
39:13
Speaker 3: on car prices. So this is fairly dramatic departure from
39:17
Speaker 3: those policies.
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Speaker 18: You're exactly right, but it again underscores the President's commitment
39:23
Speaker 18: to making America affordable again. You know, as the CEO
39:25
Speaker 18: of Ford just said, this is going to allow them
39:28
Speaker 18: to refocus their attention and reprioritize the importance of making
39:32
Speaker 18: affordable vehicles right here in America, which means more American
39:35
Speaker 18: jobs and more accessibility for these vehicles for everyday American consumers.
39:39
Speaker 18: And so again President Trump is delivering on the promises
39:42
Speaker 18: he made when he ran for president. This isn't a
39:44
Speaker 18: surprise to many people who I think are paying attention,
39:47
Speaker 18: but it's welcome news for many people who have felt
39:49
Speaker 18: the brunt of, of course, the record high inflation that
39:52
Speaker 18: we suffered under President Joe Biden. And I think it's
39:54
Speaker 18: welcome news all across the board from people in every
39:57
Speaker 18: corner of this country.
40:00
Speaker 3: Before you go, I played footage earlier in the week
40:02
Speaker 3: of the White House Christmas decorations overseen by Milania Trump,
40:07
Speaker 3: and it's quite a contrast to what we've seen in
40:10
Speaker 3: recent years under the Biden administration, which features some fairly
40:14
Speaker 3: bizarre decorations and performances. This year, it's a dramatic departure. Ceejay,
40:21
Speaker 3: how do you see it? Do you miss the Biden
40:24
Speaker 3: color and frivolity that we're seeing on one half of
40:28
Speaker 3: the screen.
40:30
Speaker 14: Well, rider, you know me.
40:31
Speaker 18: You know there's nothing I missed about Joe Biden anyway whatsoever.
40:34
Speaker 14: But I'll tell you about this now.
40:36
Speaker 18: I look at these incredible decorations. What I see is
40:39
Speaker 18: that we're not saying Happy Holidays anymore. We're saying Merry Christmas.
40:42
Speaker 18: Christmas is back in the United States of America, and
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Speaker 18: President Trump has a played to keep on in that
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Speaker 18: as long, along with our incredible First Lady Malania Trump
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Speaker 18: as well.
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Speaker 2: C J.
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Speaker 3: Pearson. Thank you so much for your time. Tonight still
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Speaker 3: to come. The reviews are in for Megan Markle's Holiday
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Speaker 3: special and they're not good. Kinsey Schofield is up next.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, joining me naw celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: let's start with some royal news. Meghan Markle's father, Thomas,
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Speaker 3: is in intensive care after emergency surgery. According to his
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Speaker 3: son Thomas Junior, he was undergoing scans and the doctors
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Speaker 3: said his life was in imminent danger. Kinsey, Thomas has
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Speaker 3: been a strange from Megan since her twenty eighteen marriage
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Speaker 3: to Prince Harry.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is all unfolding here in the States.
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Speaker 5: On the same day, Megan released her family Less Holiday special.
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Speaker 5: She says the special features friends who feel like family,
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Speaker 5: which is convenient because she's running out of the other kind. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: our thoughts are with mister Markle, whose quality of life
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Speaker 5: has deteriorated thanks to the negative attention his daughter has
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Speaker 5: brought him, and you know Rita. One of the last
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Speaker 5: times he spoke to media, he said he'd loved to
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Speaker 5: meet his grandchildren before he dies, so heartbreaking. It's a
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Speaker 5: heartbreaking situation here around the holidays.
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Speaker 3: That is a very sad story, isn't it. And you're
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Speaker 3: right right from the very start, it was evident at
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Speaker 3: the wedding that it was no family there other than
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Speaker 3: Meghan's mom, her father, her siblings, cousins, aunties, uncles. That
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Speaker 3: there was just no family there, which always struck me
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Speaker 3: as very odd, indeed, particularly when she had these celebrity
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Speaker 3: friends that she had made five minutes ago, people who
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Speaker 3: said they didn't even know her, but they scored an invitation.
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Speaker 3: Now The Independent has delivered its verdict on Meghan Markle's
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Speaker 3: holiday special. It gave it one star out of five,
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Speaker 3: saying it was not fun, not enjoyable or even aspirational.
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Speaker 3: Kins Surely anything filmed in a beautiful mansion would at
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Speaker 3: least be aspirational. That's the easiest box to tick.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know what they say, money doesn't always buy Happiness,
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Speaker 5: but here are some of my other favorite reviews from
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Speaker 5: around the world. The Standard said, absolutely do not try
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Speaker 5: any of these crafts or recipes at home unless you
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Speaker 5: also want to have a nervous breakdown. The Guardian said,
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Speaker 5: with love Megan holiday special review, take Anti Naja Pell's
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Speaker 5: She's Back. And The Telegraph said joyless and fake. What
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Speaker 5: a strange person Megan is.
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Speaker 3: Joyless and fake. That is actually a very good summary
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Speaker 3: there in a few words. Now a new photo has
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Speaker 3: dropped of Princess Kate and Prince William. The couple shed
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Speaker 3: the image on social media before a state banquet at
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Speaker 3: Windsor Castle, and Kate's wearing their Queen Victoria's oriental tir.
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Speaker 3: That's I think the first time she's warned that kins
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Speaker 3: and she also wore a pair of the late Queen's
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Speaker 3: earrings like Queen Elizabeth. It is a pretty stunning image,
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Speaker 3: isn't it.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Tomorrow's front pages haven't dropped here in the Stage yet,
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Speaker 5: but they have dropped in the UK and despite the
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Speaker 5: previous activity we discussed a specific holiday special the Prince
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Speaker 5: and Princess of Wales, they are just dominating the front pages,
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Speaker 5: specifically Catherine with her glowing skin and that shimmering dress
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Speaker 5: and the Tierra you mentioned that we haven't seen. I
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Speaker 5: just think she's absolutely stunning in a really great reflection
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Speaker 5: on the working Royals, considering the fact that we can't
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Speaker 5: bump Prince Andrew and William and Harry and Meghan out
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Speaker 5: of the headlines.
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Speaker 3: Lately now, there have been many reports that Amy Schumer,
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Speaker 3: comic and actress Amy Schume, is considering divorcing her husband
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Speaker 3: following her weight loss journey. A source close to Page
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Speaker 3: Seeks said the marriage has reached a tipping point and
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Speaker 3: there is zero chance of it being salvage.
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Speaker 5: Kinsey, well, Rita, I mean, this does look like a
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Speaker 5: revenge body.
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Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
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Speaker 5: Sourso told The Daily Mail that Amy fears her marriage
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Speaker 5: is broken and despite attempts at making it work for
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Speaker 5: their young son, it just doesn't seem to be working.
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Speaker 5: They Daily Mail claims that Amy has been trying to
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Speaker 5: make it work for much of the year, but it
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Speaker 5: looks like, you know, she's telling close friends she doesn't
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Speaker 5: think it's repairrable. I do think she kind of likes
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Speaker 5: this attention, though, because she did recently correct journalists about
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Speaker 5: her weight loss, saying she's lost fifty pounds, not thirty.
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Speaker 5: And she is making you know, interesting snide comments on
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Speaker 5: social media about the status of her relationship. We didn't
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Speaker 5: see that with Nicole and Keith Urban. We don't you know,
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Speaker 5: you don't see that with couples that are not loving
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Speaker 5: the attention.
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Speaker 3: Now. Oprah Winfrey, who is in Australia or at the moment,
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Speaker 3: is facing backlash after she revealed she has gone no
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Speaker 3: contact with certain family members. She has been accused of
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Speaker 3: inappropriately framing the debate. When tackling this topic on her
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Speaker 3: podcast Kinsey, she said people are now redefining what healthy
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Speaker 3: boundaries look like in family dynamics. Did she explain why
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Speaker 3: she's gone no contact and who she has made this
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Speaker 3: call with.
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Speaker 5: Well, I had to do some research here. In her
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty book What Happened to You, Oprah revealed details
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Speaker 5: from her childhood and she says that her grandmother would
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Speaker 5: whip her over the smallest things, and she says that
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Speaker 5: those experiences turned her into a people pleaser who battled
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Speaker 5: with boundaries well into adulthood. I also know that she's
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Speaker 5: said that there's been some sexual assault in her history.
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Speaker 5: I'm assuming that these are the reasons why she's gone
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Speaker 5: no contact, but she doesn't explain it specifically in her conversation.
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Speaker 3: But she's in her seventies now, so I wouldn't imagine
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Speaker 3: her grandmother is long gone. It would be interesting to
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Speaker 3: know if this is something less serious, because as we
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Speaker 3: know it in America, there's an epidemic of people cutting
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Speaker 3: contact with their family over political differences. Kinsey, and that
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Speaker 3: is my and Megan Markle too, Megan Mirkle and then
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Speaker 3: you've got Megan.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. I think that that's a great question. I'd be
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Speaker 5: curious to know what the specifics are. But the argument
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Speaker 5: is that she's framing it like it's a trend, and
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Speaker 5: people are saying it's so much deeper and so much
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Speaker 5: more dangerous than that.
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Speaker 3: It is. And she's almost explaining as just resetting boundaries.
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Speaker 3: When you're cutting off family members, that's a fairly drastic
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Speaker 3: thing to do before you go just quickly. This story
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Speaker 3: is rather amusing. Defense Secretary, your war secretary, I should say.
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Speaker 3: Pete Hexett has posted an AI image of children's book
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Speaker 3: series Franklin. Have a look at this one of Franklin
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Speaker 3: shooting narco terrorist out of a Helicopter. The publisher has
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Speaker 3: defended the character as a beloved Canadian icon who has
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Speaker 3: inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy and inclusivity.
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Speaker 3: What a pack of drainers, I mean, just go with
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Speaker 3: the joke. That should just be thankful that Pete Ezett
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Speaker 3: is giving them this free publicity.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Franklin doesn't want your kid today of a
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Speaker 5: drug overdose. I mean, I feel like that's something we
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Speaker 5: should all admire. But it's the perfect example of the
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Speaker 5: stress and effect what happens when you try to shut
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Speaker 5: something down and end up shining a spotlight on it instead.
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Speaker 5: They've brought even more attention to the meme than there
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Speaker 5: would have been had their steed silent.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and that's another option. Just stay silent. You don't
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Speaker 3: have to say anything. Kin Zisco, Phil, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for your time tonight, and that's all the time
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Speaker 3: we have. I'll see you tomorrow night at nine pm.
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Speaker 3: Four Lefties Losing It Newsnight is up next.