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The Kenny Report | 21 January · The Kenny Report

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  Speaker 1: Live from Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Kenny Report.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Kenny Report, coming to you live from Washington,
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  Speaker 3: d C.
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  Speaker 1: Once more.
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  Speaker 3: It's one o'clock in the morning here on Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 3: minus eleven degrees and Donald Trump, then his second term
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  Speaker 3: as president, has just finished up at his third and
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  Speaker 3: final inauguration ball just off to the side here at
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  Speaker 3: Union Station, and just minutes ago when it is motorcade
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  Speaker 3: down the length of Washington back to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: In the last twelve hours, Donald Trump has done more
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  Speaker 3: and said more than Joe Biden has done in the
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  Speaker 3: last twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: It's been extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is triumphant and Joe Biden is shamed with
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  Speaker 3: a cowardly last minute full pardoning, preemptive pardoning of his
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  Speaker 3: entire family. So much has happened today. Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 3: declared an emergency on the southern border.
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  Speaker 1: He's pardoned January.
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  Speaker 3: The six rioters He's in this year, that a regulation freeze.
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  Speaker 3: He's demanded federal workers turn up at the office. He's
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  Speaker 3: unleashed a tariff war. He's promised to get astronauts to Mars.
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  Speaker 3: The list goes on and on. At times. Today this
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  Speaker 3: was governance as a performative art. Have a look at
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  Speaker 3: this where the new president is signing executive orders on
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  Speaker 3: stage in front of his supporters.
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  Speaker 4: The second item, President Trump, is a regulatory freeze, as
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  Speaker 4: you announced in your speech, preventing bureaucrats from issuing any
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  Speaker 4: more regulations until we have full control of the government
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  Speaker 4: with this administration. The next item, as you announced in
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  Speaker 4: your speech, is a requirement that federal workers return to
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  Speaker 4: full time in person work immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The next item.
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  Speaker 4: Here is the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty. The
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  Speaker 4: next item, Senter is a freeze on all federal hiring,
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  Speaker 4: accepting the military and a number of other excluded categories,
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  Speaker 4: again until full control of the government has achieved and
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  Speaker 4: we understand the objectives of government going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine Baden doing this?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: Just extraordinary. It was performative, of course, but it wasn't art.
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  Speaker 2: It was action.
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  Speaker 1: This is governing the.
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  Speaker 3: Likes of which we have never seen before. Just by
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  Speaker 3: exiting the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump has turned the global
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  Speaker 3: energy and climate debate on its head, and.
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  Speaker 1: That'll have big impacts here in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have much more on today's extraordinary events, yesterday's now
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  Speaker 3: Monday's extraordinary events here in Washington throughout the program tonight
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  Speaker 3: with Joe Hockey, with Miranda Devine and with Christen Tate.
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  Speaker 3: But for now I want to go back to Australia
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  Speaker 3: and the sickening news today of another horrific and.
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  Speaker 1: Dangerous anti Semitic attack.
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  Speaker 3: This time the fire bombing of a childcare center in
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  Speaker 3: Maroubra at Sydney. Now, the point about this terrible attack
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  Speaker 3: is that it has actually brought about the astonishing capitulation
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  Speaker 3: from our pathetically weak Prime minister.
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  Speaker 7: Are you able to confirm reports that you are looking
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  Speaker 7: to convene a national cabinet on antisemitism?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, National Cabinet will convene on that. And there's a
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  Speaker 8: couple of other issues today.
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  Speaker 9: Do you know what time and what you're expecting to
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  Speaker 9: cover in that aside from just anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we'll discuss the agenda of course, comes through with
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  Speaker 8: the Premiers the National Cabinet on med at five o'clock
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  Speaker 8: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: This is just terrible that National Cabinet meeting is happening.
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  Speaker 1: Virtually as we speak.
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  Speaker 3: But people have been demanding action and strength against hate
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  Speaker 3: speech and anti Semitism from Anthony Albanesi.
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  Speaker 1: For more than fifteen months.
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  Speaker 3: We've had fifteen months of threats, We've had fifteen months
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  Speaker 3: of hate speech, We've had fifteen months of vandalism and violence,
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  Speaker 3: and only now does the Prime Minister act. For weeks
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  Speaker 3: he's been in denial about this, rejecting cause for a
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  Speaker 3: national cabinet meeting, and now he finally holds one. ALBANIZI
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  Speaker 3: is not a leader, He's a follower, and this is
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  Speaker 3: reckless negligence. His weakness on Israel and anti Semitism has
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  Speaker 3: hurt our nation, as we're seeing almost daily now. The
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  Speaker 3: contrast with Trump on these issues is absolutely stark. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll speak to a Jewish community leader later in the program,
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  Speaker 3: but let's now get right.
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  Speaker 1: Back to this extraordinary day here in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: What unfolded across Monday, from early morning right through till midnight,
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  Speaker 3: and as I say, past midnight into Tuesday morning here
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  Speaker 3: has been extraordinary. Let's have a quick look back on it,
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  Speaker 3: a recap of the day's events.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Hi?
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  Speaker 10: Donald John Trump, who solemnly swear.
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  Speaker 1: I do you know the words?
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  Speaker 11: Help me out here.
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  Speaker 12: I will very simply put America first.
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  Speaker 1: We're leaving office. We're not leaving the faith.
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  Speaker 12: In America. The impossible is what we do best. Are
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  Speaker 12: you witnessing the dawn of the Golden Age of America?
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  Speaker 1: An unusual letter. He may have.
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  Speaker 12: An air coupatter, It could have been years before we got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The centerpiece of today's events, of course, was the inaugural speech,
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  Speaker 3: which was delivered in the rotunda at the Capitol behind me,
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  Speaker 3: of course, because of the cold weather here the indoor ceremony.
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  Speaker 3: It was a spectacular speech, very unusual speech because we
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  Speaker 3: had all.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Trump ego.
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  Speaker 3: We had a huge, grand vision of optimism and ambition
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  Speaker 3: for America.
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  Speaker 1: But it was also very much like a policy speech.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump typically knocking off issue after issue, many of
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  Speaker 3: which he signed off in executive orders. Today.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some of that speech.
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  Speaker 12: The Golden Age of America begins right now. From this
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  Speaker 12: day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again
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  Speaker 12: all over the world. We will be the envy of
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  Speaker 12: every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be
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  Speaker 12: taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of
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  Speaker 12: the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.
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  Speaker 3: Just a remarkable speech on an historic day. There is
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  Speaker 3: so much to go through, so many comments, so many
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  Speaker 3: issues arising from the events today. I'll go through them
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  Speaker 3: in detail in a short time with our US analyst
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  Speaker 3: Christen Tastes. But someone else I caught up with today
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  Speaker 3: was Joe Hockey, the Australian Treasurer former Australian ambassador to
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  Speaker 3: the US.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my chat with him.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Hockey, what did you make of the speech today?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I expected it. I think we all did, didn't we.
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  Speaker 6: It was the disruptive speech from someone who has a
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  Speaker 6: mandate to be disruptive.
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  Speaker 3: The incredible thing about it was he mentioned so many
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  Speaker 3: policy initiatives there, some already underway in a way, but
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  Speaker 3: others he's signing them today, straight into it, hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: executive orders.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really going to shake up the country.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, totally, it will shake up the world.
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  Speaker 6: There's no doubt in my mind that he is absolutely
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  Speaker 6: convinced there are no handbrakes anymore normally, is he?
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  Speaker 2: No, Chris?
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  Speaker 6: Normally a political leader would be thinking about the next selection,
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  Speaker 6: or they'd be thinking about their career after politics, or
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  Speaker 6: they'd be thinking about whether they're acting legally or not.
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump doesn't think about any of those things because
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  Speaker 6: he's beaten them all.
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  Speaker 3: It's like eminem, this is his one shot, right and
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  Speaker 3: he's got the House, he's got the Senate, he's got
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court as well.
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  Speaker 5: But he's got a mandate.
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  Speaker 6: And you know that's why you look around this town
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  Speaker 6: and there's no resistance movement this time. There's no one
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  Speaker 6: out there saying, you know, he hasn't got a mandate
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  Speaker 6: or what he's doing is wrong, because it's the blue
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  Speaker 6: collar Democrat voters that are backing him on a lot
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  Speaker 6: of his initiatives.
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  Speaker 1: Just on that before we get to the other big issues.
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  Speaker 3: The people here in town this week, this week, the
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  Speaker 3: Trump supporters that come from all around the country, something
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  Speaker 3: even from overseas, there's a vibe about it.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't now.
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  Speaker 3: They're disappointed, they're not doing all the events outdoors today.
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  Speaker 3: They probably could have the way the weather turned out.
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  Speaker 3: But they are optimistic, they are patriotic, They are very
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  Speaker 3: friendly in this.
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  Speaker 2: Town this week.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's a very different vibe to twenty sixteen, the
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  Speaker 6: last Trump inauguration, where you know, a whole lot of
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  Speaker 6: people felt he wasn't legitimate, but there's no argument about
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  Speaker 6: his legitimacy. And I think importantly he better reflects the
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  Speaker 6: mood of the American people today than he did in sixteen.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they've had enough of cost of living pressures,
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  Speaker 6: they've had enough of illegal immigration, of fendanyl of crime
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  Speaker 6: in the streets, They've had enough of, you know, being
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  Speaker 6: pushed around by the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 6: Better reflects the mood of the American people today.
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  Speaker 3: Now you talk about how his second presidency is going
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  Speaker 3: to shake up the world. It already has really in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East. But the next big challenge is tariff's
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  Speaker 3: and trade. Now he's signing executive orders today on tariff
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  Speaker 3: So to what extent will Australia suffer?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we suffer indirectly because you know, I've tried with
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  Speaker 6: him personally and indirectly. Donald Trump doesn't appreciate that tariffs
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  Speaker 6: are in fact attacks on your own people, and so
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  Speaker 6: it's going to increase the cost of living for every
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  Speaker 6: day Americans.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where the rubber hits the road.
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  Speaker 6: He can't, on the one hand, direct the new administration
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  Speaker 6: to reduce inflation at the same time, in post tariffs.
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  Speaker 5: But he's going to do it. Now, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 6: The decisions he makes in America do affect austray If
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  Speaker 6: he cuts taxes, if we don't cut taxes and follow,
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  Speaker 6: then we're going to be uncompetitive. If he's cutting regulation,
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  Speaker 6: we've got to follow and cut regulation to remain competitive.
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  Speaker 5: It's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 6: We're not a big enough economy to veer at a
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  Speaker 6: very different angle to the US.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Joe Hockey, I've got to get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: the other big story of the day, and that is
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  Speaker 3: what the outgoing President, Joe Biden has done.
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  Speaker 1: Just extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: These last minute pardons we heard the initial ones against
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  Speaker 3: the government officials, pardons for government officials like doctor Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree with it, but it's understandable.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose in the political cut and thrust, they did
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  Speaker 3: want to protect him from vengeance from an incoming administration.
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  Speaker 1: But Joe Biden's brothers and sister.
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  Speaker 3: This smacks of a family worried about these allegations that
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  Speaker 3: it's enriched itself while in power.
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  Speaker 6: Well yeah, and it was lacking in courage because it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't even released within a time that would allow Biden
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  Speaker 6: to explain it. He released it ten minutes before the
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  Speaker 6: squaring in a new president, and you know, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 6: should have been better than that. Senior Democrats I've spoken
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  Speaker 6: to are hugely disappointed about it because, you know, after
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  Speaker 6: arguing that that sort of thing would never happen, Joe
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  Speaker 6: Biden then went and did it with his own son.
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  Speaker 5: And then doing it with the rest of his family.
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  Speaker 6: So again, what that's done is it's taken whatever air
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  Speaker 6: was left in the ties of the Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: It went out today.
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  Speaker 3: How Anthony Albanezi, Penny Wong and Kevin Rudd going to
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  Speaker 3: do getting to know and work with the new administration, Well, they've.
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  Speaker 5: Got to work hard.
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  Speaker 6: They've got to get to know him and build a
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  Speaker 6: relationship with Donald trust Donald Trump Trump. That's coldier actually,
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  Speaker 6: and so they've got to build a relation, a personal
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  Speaker 6: relationship with him, and.
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  Speaker 5: That's hard to do.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you're going to have common ground, and there's
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  Speaker 6: not a natural common ground between those three people of
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump. Despite Kevin Rudd's newfound love golf, we're all golfers.
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  Speaker 3: If you see any video of Kevin run on the
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  Speaker 3: golf course, send them to his police we'll.
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  Speaker 2: Run on Sky News, can't Worte. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining us, Joe, thanks very much.
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  Speaker 5: Chris. Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is just too funny the thought of Kevin
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  Speaker 3: run on the golf course with Donald Trump. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much, Joe Hockey. Let's bring in now our US
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  Speaker 3: analyst Kristen Tate. Now, great to see you, Kristin. You've
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  Speaker 3: had trouble getting through all the blocks around the lockdown that.
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  Speaker 1: We've had on this city over the past couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start off with you. This has been
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  Speaker 1: an incredible day.
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  Speaker 3: As I said at the top of the program, it's
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  Speaker 3: impossible to list everything that's unfolded today, But the true
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  Speaker 3: focus was that inauguration speech.
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  Speaker 1: What did you make of it?
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  Speaker 13: It was an epic day for America and for the country.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, you would have to be deranged, Chris to
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  Speaker 13: listen to that speech and be upset by what Donald
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  Speaker 13: Trump said. And the best part about all of this
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  Speaker 13: is that now Donald Trump and the Republicans can get
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  Speaker 13: to work on all the things they've been promising us
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  Speaker 13: for years.
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  Speaker 1: Is it already getting to work on it?
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  Speaker 13: That's exactly right, He's already getting to work. He withdrew
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  Speaker 13: from the Paris Climate Treaty. He told all the office
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  Speaker 13: workers in the federal government they got to get back
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  Speaker 13: to work in office. He pardoned fifteen hundred January sixth
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  Speaker 13: political prisoners. He ended birthright citizenship. That's huge herein stated
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  Speaker 13: remain in Mexico. I mean I could sit here for
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  Speaker 13: thirty minutes and go on and on. It was just incredible.
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  Speaker 13: We are already winning, and I'm not tired of winning yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whether you could quite understand. You probably
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  Speaker 3: would give him the Democrat to rejime. You've just been
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  Speaker 3: through here. But this one decision of withdrawing America from
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  Speaker 3: the Paris Climate Agreement has massive ramifications, including for Australia's
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  Speaker 3: like ours, because these are such contentious policies and America
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  Speaker 3: bailing out increases the pressure on everybody else to get sensible.
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  Speaker 3: The other factor that we had a look at within
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  Speaker 3: that speech, of course, with other global issues, peace in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East and the like, and Donald Trump of
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  Speaker 3: course was extremely ambitious.
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  Speaker 1: Have a look.
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  Speaker 12: My proudest legacy will be that of a.
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  Speaker 2: Peacemaker and unifier.
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  Speaker 12: That's what I want to be a peacemaker and a unifier.
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  Speaker 12: I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day
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  Speaker 12: before a sued office, the hostages in the Middle East
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  Speaker 12: are coming back home to their families.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kristen, Donald Trump, They're staying the obvious that it
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  Speaker 3: has been his impetus that's delivered the ceasefire in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East and is bringing hostages home. And then afterwards,
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  Speaker 3: when we had the indoor inauguration parade, he had hostages
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  Speaker 3: and hostage families there with him greeting him. It was
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  Speaker 3: an incredible moment. Even Noah Agamandi, who was seen all
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  Speaker 3: around the world, we saw those horrific pictures of her
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  Speaker 3: taken off on a motorcycle. Luckily, fortunately later on she
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  Speaker 3: was freed. She's there on stage with the president. That's
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  Speaker 3: so powerful.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, we're already seeing the fruits globally of strong leadership
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  Speaker 13: in the United States, and I have to say it
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  Speaker 13: was just so refreshing to finally have a leader who
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  Speaker 13: talks about not just America but the world as being
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  Speaker 13: on the rise, instead of just accepting sort of this
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  Speaker 13: managed decline. This is sort of an idea that the
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  Speaker 13: elites in this country have accepted for the last four years,
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  Speaker 13: and it was great to just feel like we're back,
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  Speaker 13: we're strong, and the best.
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  Speaker 1: Days are ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's have a cheeky one here, because this is
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  Speaker 3: what amazes me about Trump. But at times it infuriates
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  Speaker 3: me and other times it just makes me laugh along
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  Speaker 3: with him.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the man's giant ego. This man has
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  Speaker 1: so much self belief.
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  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you guys suppose after the greatest political comeback
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  Speaker 3: of all time. But here's a sample of some ego
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  Speaker 3: guy in Donald Trump's speech, I.
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  Speaker 12: Was saved by God to make America great again.
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  Speaker 2: It is my hope that.
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  Speaker 12: Our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest
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  Speaker 12: and most consequential election in the history of our country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, does he.
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  Speaker 3: Really believe he was saved by God to lead the
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  Speaker 3: nation that people indulge him on this ego trippo?
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  Speaker 13: Well, I believe that he thinks he was safe guy
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  Speaker 13: by God when he avoided being assassinated by a fraction
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  Speaker 13: of an inch. I mean, that really did seem to
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  Speaker 13: be an act of God. But look, we all know
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  Speaker 13: Trump has a larger than my personality. That's part of
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  Speaker 13: what makes him so fascinating and part of the reason
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  Speaker 13: why the entire world is just watching every move he
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  Speaker 13: makes with just utter fascination.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, well's the other aspect of his speech was
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  Speaker 3: a highlighted. A key part of his political agenda too,
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  Speaker 3: is taking up some of the culturals and talking about
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  Speaker 3: things that to mainstream Americans and mainstream people around the
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  Speaker 3: world just seem like common sense. For instance, the biological
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  Speaker 3: fact that there are two sexes.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 12: I will also end the government policy of trying to
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  Speaker 12: socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public
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  Speaker 12: and private light. We will forge a society that is
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  Speaker 12: color blind and merit based. As of today, it will
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  Speaker 12: henceforth be the official policy of the United States government
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  Speaker 12: that there are only two genders, male and female.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So pertinent and controvert, and has also welcomed by many,
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  Speaker 3: so many around the world.
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  Speaker 1: The end of DEI to a genders, your thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: all this.
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  Speaker 13: Well, so many Trump supporters are happy to have someone
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  Speaker 13: who's just saying what's on everybody's mind. I mean, this
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  Speaker 13: is all common sense stuff, and this is why Trump
• 19:15
  Speaker 13: supporters will walk over glass for the guy. I've been
• 19:17
  Speaker 13: with Trump supporters my whole time, and here in DC,
• 19:20
  Speaker 13: and they will stand out in the cold for hours
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: just to get a glimpse of this president or to
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: hear him speak. I mean, people were out there waiting
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: in the fridgid cold, often without adequate clothing, because they're
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: so passionate about this president. And this is why, because
• 19:34
  Speaker 13: he gives voice to common sense. This should not be
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: controversial stuff anymore. In the fact that it has shows
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: how far the left has gone off the cliff.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That's exactly the point.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: So many people agree with the stuff, but they have
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to pussy foot around it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They schedule to it, especially politicians. Well, this is made
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it safe.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did make it safe. I want to go
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to one aspect of this that troubles man. I don't
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: know whether Trump will ever make amends for it and why.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: And have a look at the pictures here, because there
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: were events very early in the day, prayer services and meetings,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: meet and greet at the White House and all the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: rest of it where the bidens were with the Trumps.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Now, this is a wonderful, polite.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And generous way to have a peaceful transfer of power,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and that become very much part of the inauguration tradition.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But of course this is.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Something that Donald Trump denied the Bidens when he lost
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the last election.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: He just left town, that didn't attend the inauguration.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: He didn't give that crucial losers consent that's fundamental to democracy.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Do you think he might regret that now, because this
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: was a lovely touch today.
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: I don't know if he does regret it, because I
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: think Donald Trump truly believes the last election was stolen,
• 20:44
  Speaker 13: and he repeated that actually several times today. I thought
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: it was classy of Biden to do that, although we
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: don't have to forget the fact that Biden's last act
• 20:52
  Speaker 13: as president was pardoning his whole fan, the defunder of norms,
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: the defender of democracy, pardoning his full family on his
• 20:59
  Speaker 13: way off the.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You've preempted my thinking there because I was being nice
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to the.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Bidens there because it was a.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Nice touch and they did the right thing there. But
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: it's a disgraceful day for him. Joe Biden leaves the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: presidency now a greatly diminished figure, if that was even possible,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: because he was shamefully now pardoned, preemptively pardoned his whole family.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Now, this means all the.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Allegations that we've heard over many years than most of
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the media have ignored about Hunter Biden and the family
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: being involved in enriching themselves through Joe Biden's political power.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: There's got to be a huge sense that there's substance there.
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah, these pardons are extraordinary. You know, usually a pardon
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: is specific to a certain class of crimes. This was
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: very blanket just anything they may have done is pardoned.
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: And that's a very scary precedent for presidents going forward.
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: I mean, presidents may just do this now as a
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: standard practice. And it's quite ironic that this is the
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: man the media has held up for you years as
• 22:00
  Speaker 13: being the defender of norms, this great savior of democracy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: But am I surprised it happened? No, I will say
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: I think Joe Biden's quite happy going off into the
• 22:09
  Speaker 13: sunset because he thinks that the media wishes that they
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: never replaced him with Kamala Harris.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's just have a look.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I think one of the most bizarre events today. It
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: turned out to be a lot of fun for everybody
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: that was the indoor inauguration parade. Here's some of the resumetas. Yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: all the fun and games. Of course, that happened indoors
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: because this cold weather forced all the events indoors. Normally
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: there'd be a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue and Kristen. A
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: lot of people manage to get ticks, but not everybody
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: who came from all over the country to celebrate the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: inauguration of President Trump was able to get into that event.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So I was wondering.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Today, where has everyone else gone? They weren't out on
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the streets. It was a bit too cold, and well,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I did some investigative reporting and I foiled a live
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: report to Peak step at Ivic from Sky News back
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: in Australia.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Have a look. Just got about a kilometer away from
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: where we were, the.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Union Hotel, the Union Pub, just down from the Union Station.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Now, of course, with all the fantastic stuff, with.
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: All the formalitt life, with all.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: The formalovis happening indoors and nothing happening outdoors, there's nothing
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: for the Trump supporters to do but come indoors and
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: have a drink of watching on CD.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And peton.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I'm told that earlier on today the TV's in here
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: were on CNN, but they quickly switched them over to
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Fox News and everybody's.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Into this chat to a couple of people here.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: What about you men? Tell us where you've come from
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and why.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 24:17
  Speaker 14: I'm mis Shop in San Diego and my sister Wendy
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: from Tamacula. We're Californians for Trump because we want America
• 24:25
  Speaker 14: and to be given back to the people. God bless
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: you America, God bless Trump and Laura taxes and protect
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: our borders.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: What about you, sir?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I believe you from Australia originally, Yes, mate, from Melbourne.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: What brings you to saving tell us about the excitement.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Her disappointment surely that it's not all happening out.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: On the mall.
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's a little bit of a disappointment. I was
• 24:47
  Speaker 15: look going to be out there on the mall seeing
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: it live from there. But anyway, we're inside of worm
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: at safe here. Resident Trump's safe. That's the main thing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: This lady says.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It's better in the pub.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: You're a honore, Assi.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You come from.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I am from Mississippi, but I'm from Bella.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Who's been here twenty three years.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Legal emmiground, go drum, We all love leg immigrants.
• 25:13
  Speaker 16: Well done, fantastic scenes down here, Faith you wonder where
• 25:17
  Speaker 16: everyone went when.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: The outdoor events got caught up, and I turned up
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: with events like this.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: You you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Well, there you go, christ and I was able to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: get Warren there for a while.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: And a little tip if you're ever looking for an Aussie,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: go to a pub anywhere in.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: The world and you'll find one.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Makes sense.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us, Kristen. There's lots happening.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: There'll be lots more happening Ivan Iland tomorrow, so we'll
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: catch up with you again tomorrow night.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Sounds great. I'm excited.
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Chris.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Kristen Tits will be back with us tomorrow night. We're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: gonna go to a break now on the.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Other side of that, or get back into this issue
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: of anti semitism in Australia and finally the hint of
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: some action from the Albaneze government and go away. You're
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: still with the Kenny Report coming to you live from Washington,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: DC this week. I'll get back to the inauguration day
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: events later in the program, catch up with Miranda Devine
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and talk about the controversy swirling around the Biden family.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: But let's get back to Australia now and that shocking
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: anti Semitic attack of a childcare center at Sydney's Maroubra Beach.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Here's a package filed earlier by Sky News as Caroline Marcus.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Authorities were called to the scene just before one am
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: overnight after a member of the public contacted Triple Zero
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: after noticing the fire. About thirty fire fighters took under
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: an hour to put out the blaze and did manage
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: to protect the neighboring premises here, but the building has
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: sustained extensive damage. Now, this building is in the vicinity
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: of the Marubra Synagogue as well as a Jewish day
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: care center. As well as being set alight, there was
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: anti Semitic graffiti scrawled across a wall of the building
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: reading f the Jews.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Carol and Marcus all over it as usual. No
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: direct connection between that childcare center and the Jewish community,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: but it is right next to a synagogue and as
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: you heard, of course those horrible anti Semitic graffiti across
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the site.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Let's bring in now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Joel Bernie, who's with the Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: joins us live from Melbourne.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Joel.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: We're getting attacks day after day now they're getting increasingly violent. Understandably,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: so many people are concerned that this could end in
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: injury and death.
• 27:49
  Speaker 17: Well, another day, Chris and another terrorist attack in Australia
• 27:52
  Speaker 17: targeted at the Jewish community here. Now I choose the
• 27:55
  Speaker 17: word taro attack very very carefully. The simple definition is
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: the unlawful you violence and intimidation, specifically against civilians in
• 28:04
  Speaker 17: the pursuit of political aims. And it is clear that
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: not only this attack on the childcare center in Marubri yesterday,
• 28:11
  Speaker 17: but also the attacks in Dover Heights late last week
• 28:13
  Speaker 17: against Alex Ripchen's former premises, as well as the New
• 28:18
  Speaker 17: Town Synagogue that didn't catch a light even though combustible
• 28:23
  Speaker 17: liquid was doused on it. So this is definitely spiraled
• 28:26
  Speaker 17: out of control, and it doesn't take a genius to
• 28:29
  Speaker 17: identify the fact that if things progress without any significant
• 28:33
  Speaker 17: intervention from authorities, including the federal government, that things are
• 28:37
  Speaker 17: going to get worse and unfortunately, someone will die.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: It's just been terrible to watch.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: We've been talking about it on this program for over
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: fifteen months. We were calling for tougher action against the
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: threats against the hate speech from October the seventh twenty
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: twenty three. Yet governments have failed to act and as
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you say, all this is excalated. We're now having repetitive
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: domestic terror. Here's the New South Wales Premier today.
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: These anti Semitic attacks are the opposite of the kind
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: of country that we all want to live in, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: I think civic society stands together condemning this appalling behavior.
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: I want to make it clear that this is atrocious.
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: Right now, New South Wales Police are conducting a major
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: investigation in relation to who is responsible for this vicious
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: hate crime. It is completely disgusting and these bastards will
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: be round up by New South Wales Police.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Tough talk and hints of action.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Now more than fifteen months on the National Cabinet, I
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: understand is meeting.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Virtually as we speak. Joel, what can come out of that?
• 29:47
  Speaker 17: Well, look, Chris, there's lots of can come out of that. Finally,
• 29:49
  Speaker 17: the meeting's being held after week and a half of
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: the Prime Minister saying that no enough talk, we need action,
• 29:55
  Speaker 17: We don't need talk, essentially again rejecting a recommendation from
• 29:59
  Speaker 17: his own his own appointed anti Semitism envoy. But the
• 30:04
  Speaker 17: hope is is that there's a whole long laundry list
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: of ideas that the Jewish community has consistently submitted to
• 30:10
  Speaker 17: governments for the past fifteen years, including legislative reform, increasing
• 30:15
  Speaker 17: the resources to the policing authorities to give them everything
• 30:18
  Speaker 17: that's required to stamp this out from stopping the in
• 30:22
  Speaker 17: century comments from some senior cabinet ministers whose electorates happened
• 30:26
  Speaker 17: to be in Western Sydney that are a little bit
• 30:28
  Speaker 17: concerned to what's going to happen at the upcoming election.
• 30:31
  Speaker 17: This toing and throwing inside government, and the position of
• 30:34
  Speaker 17: the Foreign Minister in chastising Israel for its performance in
• 30:38
  Speaker 17: its war of the past fifteen months and completely tarnishing
• 30:42
  Speaker 17: the bilateral relationship between Israel and Australia, getting that back
• 30:46
  Speaker 17: on track using more coherent ideas and pursuing legislative reform
• 30:52
  Speaker 17: to immediately stop this scourge from Look, I don't recognize
• 30:56
  Speaker 17: this country anymore, Chris, having these terror attacks on a
• 30:58
  Speaker 17: daily if not weekly. This is not the country that
• 31:01
  Speaker 17: you and I love, and it's not the country that
• 31:03
  Speaker 17: we're used to. This has to stop, and this has
• 31:05
  Speaker 17: to stop now.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dead right, Joel and the other aspect of this,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: of course, is just emphasizing the general weakness and ambivalence
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: even of the Albanesi Labor government when it comes to Israel.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Has been highlighted by these revelations from Sky News that
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: with the eightieth anniversary events in Poland next week, marking
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: eighty years since the liberation of our switch, that the
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Albanese government was only going to send the Senate President
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Sue Lyons to head up that delegation. I understand there's
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: been an announcement in the last ten minutes that Penny
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Wong will be going to that event along with Mark Dreyfuss,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: so the government's reacting to that. But this just shows
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: that they don't get it, or they have no sense
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: of commitment to it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Is Israel.
• 31:52
  Speaker 17: Senator Sue Lyons has to be one of the most
• 31:54
  Speaker 17: vocally anti Israel members of Caucus. The idea that she
• 31:58
  Speaker 17: would be the one and only men Bar senior member
• 32:01
  Speaker 17: of government to be sent to the eightieth commemoration of
• 32:03
  Speaker 17: the liberation of Auschwitz is another slap in the face
• 32:06
  Speaker 17: of the Jewish community. Now I have read the reports
• 32:09
  Speaker 17: that the Foreign Minister and the Attorney General will attend
• 32:12
  Speaker 17: that ceremony, but if there's any truth to the matter
• 32:15
  Speaker 17: that before that announcement was just made in the past
• 32:17
  Speaker 17: fifteen minutes that Senate Alliance as the President of the
• 32:20
  Speaker 17: Senate was going to be the one to attend the event.
• 32:23
  Speaker 17: It again illustrates how off the beat this government is now.
• 32:27
  Speaker 17: I don't need to tell you, Chris, because it's been
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: plainly obvious. Prime Minister has been days, if not weeks
• 32:32
  Speaker 17: behind the Opposition leader Peter Dutton on this and he's
• 32:35
  Speaker 17: been like this since day one. On the Wednesday after
• 32:39
  Speaker 17: the event in twenty twenty three, Peter Dutton was at
• 32:42
  Speaker 17: the Sydney rally at Dover Heights in front of ten
• 32:44
  Speaker 17: thousand people, whilst the Prime Minister addressed a group of
• 32:47
  Speaker 17: fifteen including myself, tucked away in a synagogue in Melbourne.
• 32:51
  Speaker 17: Step by step including the announcement or the call for
• 32:54
  Speaker 17: a task force and the insistence and call for a
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: national Cabinet meeting, has been made by Peter Dutton, if
• 33:00
  Speaker 17: not weeks before the Prime Minister, and if the Prime
• 33:03
  Speaker 17: Minister is getting outstepped by the Opposition leader at this
• 33:06
  Speaker 17: juncture of the parliamentary calendar, I think that that's a
• 33:08
  Speaker 17: big that spells a big problem for this government.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Joe Bernie, thanks so much for joining us. What a
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: shocking situation in this country. It goes without saying that
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: if anybody knows anything, has any information that can help
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: police solve any of these crimes after so many anti
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Semitic attacks, especially in Melbourne and Sydney, please do you
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: so please help authorities on this Now.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: We're going to go to a break.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Now on the other side of that, we're going to
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: check in on some more of the events around Washington,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: DC today, including at that indoor inauguration parade, and we're
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: going to speak to Miranda Devine about the controversy surrounding
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the Biden family.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Chile, Washington.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I said at the top of the program that Donald
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Trump has said and done more today in one day
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: or yes, it was done more in twelve hours, said
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: more in twelve hours, and Joe Biden had said in
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: twelve months.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: It's certainly true.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump gave his major inauguration address today.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: He then gave another long, rambling.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Unscripted speech to other dignitaries in Congress. Then he went
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: to his indoor inauguration parade and gave another speech later
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: on he went to three inauguration balls where he addressed
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: the crowd on every occasion, and in between times he
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: signed a whole bunch of executive orders in the Oval
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Office and took questions from journalists for about an hour.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: It's been extraordinary. And one of the issues he addressed
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: in that Oval.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Office chat was the pardon given by outgoing President Joe
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Biden minutes before he was to.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Lose the office, pardoning his whole family.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: His what Donald Trump has said to say, has had
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: to say about that.
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: We surprised that President Baden who would need go and
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: pardon his whole family, because that makes him look very guilty.
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: And I could have pardoned my family. I could have
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: pardoned myself my family. And I said, if I do that,
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: it's going to make me look very good.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: It's just extraordinary stuff. And that's one of the issues
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I raised with Miranda Devine. As you know, he is
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: an Australian journalist right for the Daily Telegraph. You used
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: to write for the Australian Sunday Morning Herald. She now
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: is a star columnist and author based at the New
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: York Post and I caught up with her today after she.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Was leaving Donald Trump's inauguration parade.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Miranda, you're fresh out of the indoor inauguration parade. It
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: was an amazing event. Give us your thoughts. Look, it
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: really was.
• 35:32
  Speaker 18: In the crowd there was just electric I was so
• 35:34
  Speaker 18: in love with the Trump, particularly Baron Trump, the very
• 35:37
  Speaker 18: tall younger go figure, Oh Donald Trump. But you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 18: obviously the biggest crowd pleaser was when Donald Trump signed
• 35:43
  Speaker 18: those executive orders and he had the Resolute Desk or
• 35:47
  Speaker 18: certainly a very good imitation of the Resolute Desk up
• 35:50
  Speaker 18: there on stage with him. He had a blue folder
• 35:53
  Speaker 18: which he brandish to the crowd when he arrived. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 18: then he said, so let's get this done, walked over
• 35:58
  Speaker 18: and signed in ten executive orders, including his last one
• 36:03
  Speaker 18: was I think Australians will be interested and is withdrawing
• 36:06
  Speaker 18: from the Paris Climate Agreement.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Exactly I was going to say, I said earlier, this
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: is politics almost as performative art. But it's more than performance.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: It's significant change. With Drawing from Paris is a massive decision,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: not just for America but for the rest of the world,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: and it'll have a big impact on Australia's policy debate.
• 36:24
  Speaker 18: Look, I think that Donald Trump is a gifted communicator,
• 36:27
  Speaker 18: which might seem canterintuitive for Australians who see that he
• 36:31
  Speaker 18: speaks in a sort of a tenth grade way. But
• 36:34
  Speaker 18: he's a visual communicator. His care that he puts into
• 36:39
  Speaker 18: every single image that he projects, everything from his mugshot
• 36:43
  Speaker 18: to his latest presidential portrait to that scene that we
• 36:47
  Speaker 18: just saw inside the Capitol One arena where he had
• 36:49
  Speaker 18: the Resolute desk. He had all those hostages for the
• 36:53
  Speaker 18: families and hostages that have been released from Hammas, with
• 36:56
  Speaker 18: their yellow scarves standing behind him, owing symbolically to the
• 37:01
  Speaker 18: world that they mean a lot to him, and sort
• 37:05
  Speaker 18: of subtly implying the hell that he's able to break loose.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: This is the contrast the paradox I have with Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was fantastic to have those israety hostage
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: families up there, including Noah Agagami, who had been in
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the hostage at the hands of Hummus. But then two
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: minutes later he still get them on stage and he's
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: talking about the January of the six people as hostages.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: It kind of the means the hostages that.
• 37:30
  Speaker 18: You think not at all, because what happened in this
• 37:33
  Speaker 18: country with the weaponization of the Justice Department against Donald
• 37:36
  Speaker 18: Trump and his supporters was horrendous. I mean, that was
• 37:41
  Speaker 18: every bit of hostage situation.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: They almost got him killed.
• 37:45
  Speaker 18: He's come back against all odds. There are people who
• 37:49
  Speaker 18: have been sentenced to twenty two years in jail who
• 37:52
  Speaker 18: weren't even in the Capitol. So this has been cruel
• 37:55
  Speaker 18: and unusual punishment. I don't think the rest of the
• 37:58
  Speaker 18: world understands that this was not in direction.
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  Speaker 1: It was a riot.
• 38:02
  Speaker 18: Americans who lived through a whole summer of writing where
• 38:05
  Speaker 18: no one felt any consequences, feel very aggrieved that their
• 38:10
  Speaker 18: compatriots have been roshing in jail without trial for years.
• 38:15
  Speaker 18: So I think he's right. And there have been suicides
• 38:18
  Speaker 18: and now they're all going to be released now.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Something I've been so keen to hear about from you
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: all day is this extraordinary action by Joe Biden to
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: pardon all of his family effectively at the last minute.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Now no one knows more.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: About the Biden's business dealings outside the family than you.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: This is outrageous, is it not.
• 38:37
  Speaker 18: It is so outrageous, but it's so on brand for
• 38:40
  Speaker 18: Joe Biden. And of course he waited until twenty minutes
• 38:43
  Speaker 18: before Donald Trump gave his speech, was sworn in so
• 38:48
  Speaker 18: that the news would be swamped with the news of
• 38:51
  Speaker 18: the inauguration. And he's pardoned first of all his son Hunter,
• 38:56
  Speaker 18: but today both of his brothers Jim and Frank, their wives,
• 39:01
  Speaker 18: plus his sister Val and her husband. I mean, it
• 39:04
  Speaker 18: was a family deal, and that tells you that has
• 39:08
  Speaker 18: to be an admission of guilt. There's only one reason
• 39:11
  Speaker 18: that you get pardoned, and that's if you're guilty. And
• 39:14
  Speaker 18: we've had Democrats have been telling us this for eons,
• 39:17
  Speaker 18: ever since Donald Trump started moving preemptive.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Pardons for his allies. He never did it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 18: These are preemptive pardons for Joe Biden's family members that
• 39:26
  Speaker 18: go back to January one, twenty fourteen, which was righteous.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Surely it is not the last will hear of all this?
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Well, look, there's.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: So much other news.
• 39:35
  Speaker 18: And we have a media in America that has covered
• 39:37
  Speaker 18: up for the Bidens.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: That has really ignored.
• 39:41
  Speaker 18: The corruption that The New York Post and we exposed
• 39:44
  Speaker 18: back before the twenty twenty election. They pretended that Hunter
• 39:47
  Speaker 18: Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation or wasn't real, didn't exist.
• 39:52
  Speaker 18: That held a lot of the evidence and was the
• 39:54
  Speaker 18: key to unlocking the Biden influence peddling operation that went
• 39:59
  Speaker 18: on when he was Vice pread. Isn't it raking in
• 40:01
  Speaker 18: millions of dollars for his family from China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan,
• 40:06
  Speaker 18: you name it, and they've gotten away scott free with it.
• 40:10
  Speaker 18: But at least the American people now know that Joe
• 40:13
  Speaker 18: Biden was corrupt and that's I guess, his legacy. He's
• 40:16
  Speaker 18: just proven it with his final pardons.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Miranda, you've been such a powerful force of journalism over
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: here since you came a back out.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Here about four or five years ago from Australia. Thanks
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: so much for sharing your insights with us.
• 40:28
  Speaker 18: Pleasure break to seep with you, and I miss everyone
• 40:30
  Speaker 18: in Australia.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Miranda Devine has been at the cutting edge of
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: that story. The delinquency of the mainstream will leftist media
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: on this issue not pursuing it over recent years, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: you watch them.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Now try to ignore it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: It's a scandalous exit by Joe Biden, but you watch
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of the media just ignore this story.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We've got to take a break.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: We'll finish off the program with a great panel with
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: cu jo' brien Stephen sennat Empire. We'll talk about these
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: two biggest stories of the day, the shocking antisemitism, the
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: attacks in austral and of course Donald Trump inaugurated for
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: a second time.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Don't go away, Chris Kenny coming to you live from Washington,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: d C.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Where it's almost two o'clock in the morning on Tuesday
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: and it's minus eleven degrees. Let's bring in Souzi O'Brien
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: in Melbourne, who writes for the Herald Sun, and Stephen
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: the Senatiempo, who hosts the breakfast program in the nation's
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: capital at two double C.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Great to speak to both of you, but first up,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: a horrible story to talk.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: About, yet another example, Susie, of anti semitism in Australia.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Just this sickening fire bomb attack of a childcare center,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: a childcare censor.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: No body, no wonder the country's outraged.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: But I've just been disgusted by for so long now
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: the lack of action from state and federal governments.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: Your thoughts, Look, this is absolutely tragic. Can you say,
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: where is this going to stop? I mean, a lot
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: of Jewish people must be thinking about the fact that
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: schools are going back in it a week or so.
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: I mean, that is a really really big concern. I mean,
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: this childcare center two hundred meters from a synagogue in Marubra.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: It was the eighth attack in New South Wales. How
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: many more innocent people are going to be targeted in
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: this way before the government actually takes some action and
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: you know, finally they're calling the cabinet together to discuss this.
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: You know, are they going to Are we going to
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: see any changes in terms of tough tougher talk, tougher sentences,
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: you know, real action in terms of more finances put
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: towards this. I mean, it is absolutely unacceptable, Steve.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: And it just breaks my heart because I know so
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: many Australians, so many great Australians, Jewish Australians are actually
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: living in fear in their own country now and having
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: doubts about the way their fellow citizens view them.
• 42:50
  Speaker 16: Absolutely, and I think it's important for all of us,
• 42:52
  Speaker 16: it's incumbent and all of us to show our support
• 42:55
  Speaker 16: for the Jewish community here in Australia because at the
• 42:57
  Speaker 16: end of the day, regardless of what you thoughts might
• 42:59
  Speaker 16: be on the conflict that's going on in the Middle East.
• 43:02
  Speaker 16: Jewish Australians are Jewish Australians and they're just like the
• 43:05
  Speaker 16: rest of us. But I mean, this is extraordinary. The
• 43:07
  Speaker 16: response from the government has been so lacking. Here national
• 43:11
  Speaker 16: Cabinet I think is meeting as we speak, or they
• 43:13
  Speaker 16: kicked off at about five o'clock. I don't know if
• 43:15
  Speaker 16: they're still meeting, but this is fifteen months too late.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 43:20
  Speaker 16: The Prime Minister appointed a Special Envoy against anti Semitism,
• 43:24
  Speaker 16: Jillian Siegel, who called for National Cabinet to be convened.
• 43:28
  Speaker 16: The call was ignored until we get another terrorist attack,
• 43:32
  Speaker 16: as you say, at a childcare center. Now, the Jewish
• 43:34
  Speaker 16: community knew this was coming because they've got private security
• 43:37
  Speaker 16: outside schools and daycare centers and preschools, etc. They know
• 43:42
  Speaker 16: the kind of risk they're at, they know what danger
• 43:44
  Speaker 16: they're in. But our politicians have done nothing about this
• 43:47
  Speaker 16: other than sit on their hands. And I think Peter
• 43:49
  Speaker 16: Dupp was absolutely right that the Prime Minister had to
• 43:51
  Speaker 16: be dragged kicking and screaming to convening a national Cabinet
• 43:54
  Speaker 16: on this issue when this is a national crisis, that
• 43:57
  Speaker 16: the Prime Minister should have taken hand off fifteen months ago.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: This issue is so far beyond partisan politics.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: I just think Anthony Alberanezi has completely failed the country
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: on this issue, and on this issue alone, he deserves
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: to disappear into opposition. It is just tragic the way
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: that he has undermined social cohesion and public safety in
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: this country on this important issue. Let's lift the tone
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: a little bit and have a look at what's been
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: happening in this town, the capital of the world at
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: the moment. They often think they are the capital of
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: the world all the time, Washington, DC, the inauguration events
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: and the action. It's just not been all the pomp
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: and circumstance and all the razmataz. Today there's been so
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: much action from Donald Trump yesterday. I keep thinking yesterday,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: that was yesterday. It's two o'clock in the morning. We're
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: into Tuesday. Now we're catching up with you. Here's some
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: of what Donald Trump had to say in his major
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: inauguration speech.
• 44:52
  Speaker 12: Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to
• 44:56
  Speaker 12: take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just
• 45:02
  Speaker 12: a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field and
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then
• 45:10
  Speaker 12: and believe even more so now that my life was
• 45:13
  Speaker 12: saved for a reason. I was saved by God to
• 45:18
  Speaker 12: make America great again.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: What do you make of that thesis, Stephen, Well, look,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: I think look, sorry, that is a person of faith.
• 45:40
  Speaker 16: You know, I think there's probably some divine intervention there.
• 45:43
  Speaker 16: But I think the important thing that came to the
• 45:44
  Speaker 16: inauguration speech for me is the fact that Donald Trump
• 45:48
  Speaker 16: was prepared to stand up and say things that politicians
• 45:51
  Speaker 16: in the West have been afraid to say for twenty years.
• 45:54
  Speaker 16: I mean, when he talks about a revolution of common sense,
• 45:56
  Speaker 16: let's hope that that infects Australia as well, because lacking
• 46:00
  Speaker 16: in common sense in government these days. But even the
• 46:02
  Speaker 16: fact that he comes out and says, you know, we
• 46:04
  Speaker 16: are it is going to be an official policy of
• 46:06
  Speaker 16: the American government that there are only two genders, male
• 46:09
  Speaker 16: and female. I mean, it's extraordinary that you've got to
• 46:11
  Speaker 16: legislate common sense to that level. But this is something
• 46:15
  Speaker 16: that politicians in Australia would have been afraid to say.
• 46:17
  Speaker 16: And hopefully now we'll see our own politicians stand up
• 46:20
  Speaker 16: and follow Donald Trump's lead.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Well, he said today also that biological men should not
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: play in women's sport. This is something people will nod
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: their heads around the country, but politicians in Australia seem
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: to have a great deal of trouble saying that, making
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: that very very obvious point. Let's have a look at
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: more where he looks at a central cause of inflation.
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating
• 46:49
  Speaker 12: energy prices. And that is why today I will also
• 46:52
  Speaker 12: declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: And Susie.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: This comment and he's undertakings here where he's declared a
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: national energy emergency really hit home to me because they're
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: so pertinent to Australia. We've had a problem with inflation,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: we've had an energy crisis driving that, and there's got
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: to be lessons here for us as well.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: Oh, there are so many implications for our country. This
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: is the return of the Golden Age of America. This
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: is what Trump says, let the sunlight shine in, and
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: this is very much about creating America versus the rest
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: of the world, and we are going to be on
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: the outer for some of that in terms of whether
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: it is pulling out of the who pulling back on
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: the Paris climate agreement. I mean, there are lots of
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: implications for US in terms of tariffs as well, and
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: it's going to be really fascinating to see how it
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: all plays out. This was very much his speech, Just
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: about everything he did was about shoring up the Trump
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: voters Middle America, the people who've been doing it tough,
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: and that kind of language where you said, drill, baby, drill.
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: I mean, this is not a reform Trump. This is
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: the Trump of old who says, which I did win
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: that last election. It's absolutely you know, all holds barred,
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: like anything could happen now. It's absolutely fascinating.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: It sure could and probably will.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us, Susie and Steve, and
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I'll catch up with you back in ours next week.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Just wrapping up the program here, I've got to tell you,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: what's happening in this town is extraordinary. The optimism, the
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: sense of a new dawning in America, in Washington at
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: the moment is extraordinary. Given this is a Democrat town,
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: but there are so many Republicans, so many Trump supporters here.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: They've got a lot of spirit. Let's see where it
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: takes America and the world. I'll be back here tomorrow night,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: here's Peter Quedlin.