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Sharri | 16 March · Sharri

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Speaker 1: Why on Sky News, this is.
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Speaker 2: Sharry Good Evening.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: Interest rates are set to rise tomorrow. There's a global
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Speaker 2: oil crisis, yet Trump claims he's winning the war. We'll
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Speaker 2: cross live to Israel with Elon Levy and I'll speak
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Speaker 2: with the boss of a major Australian foot fuel supplier
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Speaker 2: to find out how close we are to running out
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Speaker 2: of petrol. Also tonight, the ABC gives a soft run
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Speaker 2: to Grace Tame over her globalize the interfarder chant just
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Speaker 2: after a Michigan synagogue is attacked, when so much violence
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Speaker 2: is occurring, Why are protesters still calling to globalize the
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Speaker 2: interfarer and why is the ABC so understanding? I'll unpack
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Speaker 2: all of that in a moment. Plus, Tony Burke accused
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Speaker 2: of risking the lives of Australian soccer players by of
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Speaker 2: Iranian soccer players by plastering their photographs all over social media.
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Speaker 2: I'll speak about this a bit later with Ray Hadley,
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Speaker 2: but first today, the ABC gave Grace Tame a soft
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Speaker 2: platform despout her hateful views. In an interview with ABC
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Speaker 2: host hay mish McDonald. Grace Tame was praised and barely
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Speaker 2: challenged as she made outrageous claims that the violent rape
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Speaker 2: of Jewish girls on October seven was simply propaganda.
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Speaker 4: Timney's texted in saying can you please ask Grace why
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Speaker 4: she's selective in her outrage? She says, I've never heard
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Speaker 4: her condemn or speak out on behalf of the Israeli
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Speaker 4: women who were raped and killed by Hamas on October seven?
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Speaker 4: Have you spoken about that? Have you expressed outrage about that.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to sink to the level of entertaining
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Speaker 5: any kind of propaganda, Hamish.
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Speaker 4: What's the propaganda included in that question?
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Speaker 6: That those things have been debunked, and it went on.
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Speaker 2: She also downplayed the violent and shocking terrorism committed against Israel,
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Speaker 2: claiming it was resistance by Palestinians who've been oppressed. Now
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Speaker 2: Hamish McDonald, he did ask her questions, but he failed
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Speaker 2: to press her, including on the fact that the chant
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Speaker 2: globalize the INTEROFATA has been realized with dozens of terror
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Speaker 2: attacks around the world, including at Bondai. The Bondai shooters
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Speaker 2: allegedly recorded a video in front of Isis flags vowing
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Speaker 2: to target Zionists, according to the police statement of facts. Instead,
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Speaker 2: Hamish McDonald shockingly praised Grace Tame Besley.
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Speaker 4: You've become very well known in Australia for your campaign
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Speaker 4: and your advocacy on these incredibly important issues. Has the
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Speaker 4: events of the last month made it harder for you
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Speaker 4: to do that work? I know these are incredibly complex
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Speaker 4: issues and there's complicated dimensions of this for you, So
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Speaker 4: we appreciate you answering the questions and thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: This is an outrageous failure of the ABC to give
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Speaker 2: Grace Tame a high profile platform to further express her
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Speaker 2: dangerous and hateful views that can have serious repercussions for
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Speaker 2: the Jewish community. And according to McDonald as he said
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Speaker 2: it on air, he was getting calls in support of
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Speaker 2: her position. That's on the ABC listeners should have been
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Speaker 2: told that the phrase Tame yelled to globalize the Interofada
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Speaker 2: has seen Jews killed right here in Australia and around
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Speaker 2: the world. And just a reminder, this is what Tame.
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Speaker 7: Yelled from Gadigal to Gaza globalize the inter Farta won
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Speaker 7: my time from ga globalie.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Just this weekend we saw the Interfarta globalized with yet
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Speaker 2: another attack on a synagogue. A terrorist rammed his car
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Speaker 2: laden with bombs through the entrance and down the hall
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Speaker 2: of a Michigan synagogue. There were one hundred and forty
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Speaker 2: little children inside the synagogue preschool at the time. The
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Speaker 2: attacker was shot dead, and thankfully the children managed to escape.
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Speaker 2: But one hundred and forty children at a place that
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Speaker 2: should mean complete safety and protection at pre school. It
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Speaker 2: makes your heartbreak, and yet it was targeted, this preschool,
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Speaker 2: this synagogue was targeted because the interfarta is being globalized now.
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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump expressed his sorrow at what happened.
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Speaker 8: And before we begin, I want to send her our
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Speaker 8: love to the Michigan Jewish community and all of the
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Speaker 8: people in Detroit the Trier area following the attack on
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Speaker 8: the Jewish synagogue early today, and have been briefed, fully briefed,
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Speaker 8: and it's a terrible thing, but it goes on.
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Speaker 9: We're going to be right down to the bottom of it.
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Speaker 8: It's absolutely incredible that things like this happened, and it's
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Speaker 8: not even.
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Speaker 2: An isolated incident. It's now part of a disturbing pattern.
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Speaker 2: In fact, this is at least the fiath attack of
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Speaker 2: its kind. Recently, a synagogue was set fire in Rotterdam
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Speaker 2: on the thirteenth of March, a Jewish school was bombed
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Speaker 2: in Amsterdam. A day later, there was also a synagogue
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Speaker 2: fire bombed in Belgium on the twelfth of March, and
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Speaker 2: on the seventh and second of March, three synagogues was
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Speaker 2: shot at in Toronto. So that's just in a matter
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Speaker 2: of days. And as you know, we're not immune here
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Speaker 2: in Australia where fifteen people were killed at Bondai, including
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Speaker 2: ten year old Matilda, And we've had a preschool bombed
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Speaker 2: and destroyed, fire bombed and destroyed, and many many synagogues targeted,
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Speaker 2: and most of this is now happening despite the fact
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Speaker 2: that the war in Gaza is over, there is a ceasefire.
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Speaker 2: For months, we were told that the anger, the protests
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Speaker 2: and the hostility was about Israel and in the name
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Speaker 2: of humanity. It was a total lie. If these activists
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Speaker 2: and protesters cared about humanity, they would be supporting the
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Speaker 2: Iranian people. They would have taken to the streets and
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Speaker 2: to social media when Iranians were being executed for demanding freedom.
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Speaker 2: But they were silent because the horrifying, cruel and deeply
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Speaker 2: depressing truth is that this was always a Jews and
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Speaker 2: that's the reason people on the hard left and the
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Speaker 2: far right hate Israel because it's a Jewish state. It's
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Speaker 2: not the other way round. And we are now seeing
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Speaker 2: Jews openly and blatantly being targeted in a way that's
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Speaker 2: unprecedented this century. Jewish schools and communities are under threat,
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Speaker 2: and the very protesters who claim to be standing up
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Speaker 2: for human rights, both in the streets and with their
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Speaker 2: propaganda videos online, are the very worst kind of racists
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Speaker 2: because their words and actions only encourage violence and hatred
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Speaker 2: against Jews while they pretend to be human rights activists.
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Speaker 2: Listen again to these chants calling to globalize the Interfata
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Speaker 2: from individuals who probably believe themselves to be humanitarians, from
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Speaker 2: Gatigol to Gaza.
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Speaker 7: Globalize the Interfara one more time, from Gatidol to Gada.
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Speaker 2: If people are routinely chanting to globalize the into Farda,
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Speaker 2: why should anyone be surprised when exactly that happens. Into Farda,
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Speaker 2: as you know, refers to a violent uprising. The first
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Speaker 2: Intervada in nineteen eighty seven involved acts of terrorism. The
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Speaker 2: second Interfada from two thousand was equally violent and included
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Speaker 2: suicide bombings, passenger bus bombings and many innocent civilians were killed.
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Speaker 2: Then the October seven attacks were another interfarda where families
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Speaker 2: were butchered, babies were murdered, and girls were raped. Now
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Speaker 2: these humanitarians chant to globalize this interfarta, to globalize this
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Speaker 2: violence and murder. The pro Palestinian movement that chance these
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Speaker 2: phrases is not peaceful, it's dangerous, and we're seeing that
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Speaker 2: it can be deadly because of risks provoking deadly attacks.
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Speaker 2: And isn't it disgraceful that the Prime Minister Anthony Alberonizi
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Speaker 2: and Penny Wang refused to categorically condemn Grace Tame for
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Speaker 2: chanting to globalize the Interfarta. Now Tame may claim, as
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Speaker 2: she did on the ABC Radio today, she may claim
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Speaker 2: that she meant something different from globalizing them of Jews,
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Speaker 2: but she can't separate her personal meaning, whatever that may be,
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Speaker 2: to the broadly understood meaning of globalize the interfata. The
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Speaker 2: phrase is steeped in history and it has real consequences.
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Speaker 2: Language like this shapes attitudes and influences behavior, as new southeales.
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Speaker 2: Premier Chris Means repeatedly points.
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Speaker 10: Out also make it very clear that horrific recent events
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Speaker 10: have shown that the chant globalize the interfata is hate
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Speaker 10: speech and it encourages violence in our community.
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Speaker 2: He's right. If people with large platforms repeat dangerous language,
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Speaker 2: they can't simply wash their hands of the consequences. If
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Speaker 2: they genuinely don't realize the effect of what they're saying,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean they're not culpable. It means they're stupid.
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Speaker 2: But the language they use is still equally as problematic
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Speaker 2: and as dangerous. And this problem isn't confined to activists
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Speaker 2: or slogans. We've seen influential online figures give platforms to
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Speaker 2: regimes that openly promote hatred and violence. In July last year,
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Speaker 2: Taker Carson interviewed Iran's President Masud Pezeshkian, effectively giving the
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Speaker 2: evil regime a soft platform without any genuine challenge. And
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Speaker 2: now just this weekend, Carlson claims he's being investigated by
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Speaker 2: the CIA for being a foreign agent.
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Speaker 11: So the other day I found out that the CIA
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Speaker 11: is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a
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Speaker 11: crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis
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Speaker 11: of a supposed crime I committed what's that crime. Well,
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Speaker 11: talking to people in Iran before the war, they read
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Speaker 11: my texts. So the crime under consideration apparently would be
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Speaker 11: the foreign Agent act or something like that, acting as
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Speaker 11: an agent of a foreign power.
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Speaker 2: Now, the truth will be buried somewhere in what he's saying.
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Speaker 2: But if he's to be believed, it is fascinating that
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Speaker 2: US intelligence agencies are investigating whether he's a foreign agent,
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Speaker 2: especially after President Trump invited him into the White House
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Speaker 2: not long before he launched strikes on Tehran. Did Trump
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Speaker 2: believe that Carlson would tell the Iranian regime it was
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Speaker 2: all safe, the US didn't want war. If so, Trump
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Speaker 2: played Carlson because America and Israel took out Ayatola Kamena
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Speaker 2: in the first hour of the war in a surprise
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Speaker 2: attack that no one saw coming. And Trump today took
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Speaker 2: aim at Tucker Carson and Megan Kelly, and he defended
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Speaker 2: Mark Levin, who they have both attacked. In a long
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Speaker 2: social media post, Trump called the likes of Carlson and
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Speaker 2: Kelly jealous and angry human beings. He said they are
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Speaker 2: not maga. I am, and maga includes not allowing I
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Speaker 2: ran a sick, demented and violent terrorist regime to have
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon to blow up the United States of America,
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Speaker 2: the Middle East, and ultimately the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: You should read the post, and Trump ends with his
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Speaker 2: classic line, thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I've reported previously the intelligence circles consider Carlson to be
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Speaker 2: a pawn and propagandital of Russias, although no evidence has
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Speaker 2: yet emerged publicly of financial payments. But we know that
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Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson defends Russia and Iran, two of the countries
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Speaker 2: that form the axis of evil and seek to overturn
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Speaker 2: democracy and American dominance. So he is dressing up his
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Speaker 2: anti Western views as die hard Maga when it's the
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Speaker 2: exact opposite. Carlson has also recently attacked a section of
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Speaker 2: the Jewish religion called Kabud. And you may know that
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Speaker 2: it was the Kabbud of Bondai Synagogue that organized the
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Speaker 2: Karneker event that turned into a bloody massacre at Bondai.
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Speaker 2: And now Carlson, with his seventeen or so million followers,
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Speaker 2: is targeting Kabud unfairly. Now when we've already seen a massacre,
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Speaker 2: What does he think is going to happen when he
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Speaker 2: inaccurately blames Khabud for Trump's war on Iran. These figures
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Speaker 2: on the far right and the far left are reckless
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Speaker 2: and racist, and this has become a life and death situation.
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Speaker 2: If society refuses to confront these figures because they have
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Speaker 2: a big following, then this racism will continue to escalate
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Speaker 2: if we refuse to confront it. Now, history has already
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Speaker 2: shown us where that road leads. Now, just very quickly
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Speaker 2: on this Swans and af CL saga about changing the
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Speaker 2: script not to mention the Jewish community. Now, I'm personally
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Speaker 2: not into sport. I don't follow a football team, either
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Speaker 2: AFL or NRL. I don't watch the games. I'm here
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Speaker 2: on air on a Thursday night. But even I know
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Speaker 2: there have been few organizations of businesses as supportive of
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Speaker 2: the Jewish community as the Swans have been. They held
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Speaker 2: a pregame tribute to the Bondai attack, and they visited
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Speaker 2: the memorial site in the wake of the massacre. It
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Speaker 2: was obviously a mistake to delete a reference to the
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Speaker 2: Jewish community, and they've apologized twice. Really a friend of
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Speaker 2: the community, They're not the enemy here, and the idea
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Speaker 2: that they should be referred to the Royal Commission, in
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Speaker 2: my opinion, is preposterous. The ABC Grace Tame, the Sydney
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Speaker 2: Bianali and all of those Riders festivals, on the other hand,
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Speaker 2: should be referred They are a different story. Will be
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Speaker 2: joined by the boss of a leading fuel company in
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Speaker 2: just a moment. Because Trump is now pushing allied countries
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Speaker 2: to help break Around's Block eight of the Strait of Hormus.
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Speaker 12: We are looking around for the policing, the strength, and
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Speaker 12: I think we're getting.
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Speaker 9: That's great that they.
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Speaker 2: The UK is considering sending mine hunting drones, and Japan
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Speaker 2: says the legal threshold is very high for them to join. Well,
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Speaker 2: let's bring in our former Speaker of the House Bromb
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Speaker 2: and Bishop and The Nightlies chief writer Aaron Patrick. Great
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Speaker 2: to see you both, Broen. At this point, there's no
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Speaker 2: clear commitment from any of the allies as far as
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Speaker 2: I am aware, to send ships to help protect the
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Speaker 2: straight of Oomus. Do you think Australia and others should
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Speaker 2: consider this? I mean this is becoming a real issue.
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Speaker 13: Bottom line is Australia can't. We haven't got the capacity
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Speaker 13: censorship and you would have heard others say that today,
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Speaker 13: but I mean I see ships that we're still sailing
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Speaker 13: around in that I actually presided over it being launched. Yes, indeed,
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Speaker 13: in fact, the sixth of that line I actually cut
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Speaker 13: the first.
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Speaker 2: Piece of steel.
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Speaker 13: So it tills you how long those ships have been
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Speaker 13: at sea. Not that you're old brother, that no, but
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Speaker 13: in terms of what we need, we haven't kept up.
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Speaker 13: And whenever you get a labor government, they spend on defense.
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Speaker 13: It's never a priority. So if you look at the
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Speaker 13: other countries that are looking at it, I think they're
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Speaker 13: waiting to see what more Trump is going to do first.
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Speaker 13: And I think they're also looking at the pipelines that
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Speaker 13: take oil out of say Saudi Arabia, the capacity where
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Speaker 13: that can be increased. So I think there are a
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Speaker 13: lot of options yet to go. And whether or not
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Speaker 13: Trump leaves that terminal on the island in the Strait
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Speaker 13: is the real question that goes begging.
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Speaker 9: I think.
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Speaker 2: Aaron one idea. I asked Matt Canavan about this on
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Speaker 2: the show on Thursday, about pushing the Albanezi government on
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Speaker 2: harving the fuel xis. I mean, this seems an obvious
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Speaker 2: idea from two perspectives. One it'll bring down prices and
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Speaker 2: secondly it'll address the inflation component as well. What do
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Speaker 2: you think it will do that?
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Speaker 14: But there's a really big structal problem that stops it
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Speaker 14: from doing it, which is the economy is running too hot.
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Speaker 14: So Albanese and Jim Charmers of running thirty five forty
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Speaker 14: billion dollar deficits, you've got growth way above what it
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Speaker 14: really should be. So essentially, if you do that and
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Speaker 14: you will pull back inflation, you're still injecting another six
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Speaker 14: billion dollars into the economy. And what the government really
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Speaker 14: wants is people to stop spending because we are faced
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Speaker 14: with three potentially three interest rate rises this year could
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Speaker 14: cost the average Australia the average bagage hold of four
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Speaker 14: thousand dollars, So it's going to be a massive economic
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Speaker 14: hit to people. And unfortunately, harving the feel excise tax
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Speaker 14: will probably just put more upward pressure on interest rates.
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Speaker 13: Can we can we not say that by the cost
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Speaker 13: of fuel going up as it has if they will
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Speaker 13: have in a way the same sort of impact as
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Speaker 13: raising interest rates. So in fact we're going to get
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Speaker 13: a double whammy. Isn't that what's going to happen?
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Speaker 14: Getting complete double whammy.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: And the irony is is that that's sort of what
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Speaker 14: the government and the Reserve Bank what. Despite the huge
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Speaker 14: polytical cost of that, it's helping them economically.
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Speaker 2: We were already on the upward cycle, Rahman, of interest
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Speaker 2: rates and inflation rising before the war began.
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Speaker 13: Well, he's going to want the interest rate to happen
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Speaker 13: now because he doesn't want it to happen just before
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Speaker 13: the budget. So pardon my cynicism, but we'll get an
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Speaker 13: interest rate cut an increase now, but I bet there's
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Speaker 13: not one in May.
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Speaker 2: But my point is we were already on this year
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Speaker 2: inflation cycle, but that.
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Speaker 9: Was three.
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Speaker 13: And we're headed for five percent. I mean, And as
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Speaker 13: I said, I think I said the other day, charmers
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Speaker 13: will think all these Christmases have come at once because
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Speaker 13: he now hide behind the war and take no responsibility again,
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Speaker 13: which he never does.
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Speaker 1: You know, he.
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Speaker 13: Methodically goes about things as we always do. And you'll
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Speaker 13: put it to the colleagues, and the colleagues will decision,
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Speaker 13: make a decision about the options. But at the moment
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Speaker 13: they have a tax policy and they haven't contemplated doing
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Speaker 13: anything different.
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Speaker 2: It's all ubbish.
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Speaker 13: He really is the snake charmer.
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Speaker 2: There's no attempt Aaron to cut spending. I mean, you
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Speaker 2: don't expect they're going to actually tackle this in the budget.
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Speaker 14: They're going to have to do something. They can't ignore
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Speaker 14: it because the budgets are going out for as phrase.
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Speaker 2: Can see, increase taxes, won't they They're.
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Speaker 14: Talking about, you know, working on the couple of gains
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Speaker 14: tax and negative viewing, and they're doing a very token,
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Speaker 14: very small cut to income tax. And if you if
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Speaker 14: you listen to Charms closely, he'll sometimes say we've already
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Speaker 14: made savings of one hundred and fourteen billion dollars now
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Speaker 14: savings and camera jargon means cuts.
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Speaker 1: But he's been.
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Speaker 14: Tackled about this, and I can see Bromin's nighting in
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Speaker 14: the Senate and estimates and it's one hundred and forty
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Speaker 14: billion in savings and reprioritizations. It just means you spend
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Speaker 14: the money on something else, you spend the money on
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Speaker 14: something different. So clearly this government does not want to
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Speaker 14: cut spending. But he's got to do something or else
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Speaker 14: because he's built up expectations. But we'll see, we'll see
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Speaker 14: if it's significant.
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Speaker 13: I think he's going to be well when he talks
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Speaker 13: about the colleagues, he's talking about Arba and easyban. Easy
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Speaker 13: doesn't like to take bad news and bad cuts, so
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Speaker 13: we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 2: He's left all his.
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Speaker 13: Predictable language so that he can say anything he likes
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Speaker 13: about the budget. And you're quite right, I mean savings
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Speaker 13: means cuts. But when you look at a word like productivity,
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Speaker 13: there's no idea what it means. It actually means you
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Speaker 13: get more by doing out of the people on the capitol.
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Speaker 1: You've got.
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Speaker 13: Now, that is a productivity game. We don't have it here.
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Speaker 13: So when you get and.
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Speaker 2: We heard Peter Costello speak about that at the John
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Speaker 2: Howard did anniversary dinner. We were both out on Friday night. Brohmen. Yes,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just hearing Peter Costello speak was extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: I mean he pointed out that there was the deficit
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Speaker 2: free day debt free day rather debt free twenty years ago.
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Speaker 13: Yes, yes, and there was enough money to actually pay
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Speaker 13: off all the debt. If we'd done that, the bottomock
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Speaker 13: would collapse, so it had to be paid into the
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Speaker 13: futures fund, so there was no net debt.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's quickly have a look at the polls,
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Speaker 2: because One Nation has surged to twenty four percent in
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Speaker 2: the latest Resolve poll in the Herald, overtaking the coalition
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Speaker 2: on twenty two, while Labor has also slipped into the
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Speaker 2: twenties at twenty nine. So, Aaron, do you still think
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Speaker 2: this is a protest vote or do you think voters
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Speaker 2: are now starting to cement their position?
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Speaker 4: You mean with One Nation Nation.
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Speaker 14: Look, it's I'm still a bit skeptical, but the numbers
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Speaker 14: have been high for quite some time. So let's just
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Speaker 14: see how firm they are and how well One Nation
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Speaker 14: goes and the parer by election that the rot sort
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Speaker 14: of set in when Susan Lee was leader, Clearly she
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Speaker 14: lost a lot of liberals. Those figures do show that
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Speaker 14: Angus Taylor is a lot more popular. Okay, he really
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Speaker 14: has come in some good sort of ground swell of
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Speaker 14: support for him. But they aren't being shown up in
24:04
Speaker 14: the primary numbers yet. But I think it's too early to.
24:07
Speaker 2: Say, yeah, it's right, he is doing better. But as
24:11
Speaker 2: Aaron Aaron says, they haven't lifted the primary figures romin.
24:15
Speaker 2: What do you think of One Nation? Do you think
24:17
Speaker 2: we could see them pick up Fara when we see
24:21
Speaker 2: the by election in early May.
24:23
Speaker 13: I think it's important in Fara, and I've said all
24:26
Speaker 13: along that there has to be with the coalition and
24:28
Speaker 13: One Nation and accommodation. Now by putting Teals and Greens
24:34
Speaker 13: last in Farer that would be a good result and
24:36
Speaker 13: then we'll see to it goes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, at the moment One Nation haven't had a
24:44
Speaker 2: presence in the Lower House unless you count you know,
24:47
Speaker 2: Barnaby Joyce. But do you think that is what we
24:50
Speaker 2: could be seen?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's quite possible. But don't forget One
24:54
Speaker 14: Nation have of a record of blowing up and in
24:59
Speaker 14: a very height by election, there's an unusually high level
25:02
Speaker 14: of scrutiny on all of the candidates. So if this
25:05
Speaker 14: One Nation candidate makes any mistakes or something comes out
25:09
Speaker 14: dubious from their background, it could flip the whole thing
25:13
Speaker 14: if it does.
25:14
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the interesting thing. Pauline Hatson on this
25:16
Speaker 2: show a couple of weeks ago said some outrageous comments.
25:19
Speaker 2: It didn't enter in the slightest vrom. It didn't. It
25:23
Speaker 2: might have done the reverse. Well, people are.
25:25
Speaker 13: Fed up with Pauline being attacked. They don't like it,
25:30
Speaker 13: and you can find it just in ordinary conversation around
25:34
Speaker 13: a shop, somebody will say, oh, I like Pauline. They
25:38
Speaker 13: don't like it when people start beating up on her.
25:41
Speaker 13: They're over it. So I think there's a change, and
25:45
Speaker 13: I think there's been a change in the electric With
25:49
Speaker 13: the major party's numbers diminishing as they have, we've still
25:54
Speaker 13: got compulsory preferential voting, which has always been the savior
25:57
Speaker 13: of the major parties. See just how it goes this time.
26:02
Speaker 13: But if the Liberals gave their preferences to a Teal,
26:06
Speaker 13: thinking somehow that if they're nice to that Teal, then
26:10
Speaker 13: voters in Teal sets will vote liberal, they're delusional. The
26:14
Speaker 13: bottom line is that they are far better off having
26:17
Speaker 13: a one nation candidate than a Teal candidate if they
26:21
Speaker 13: themselves can't pull off holding the seat.
26:24
Speaker 2: Right. Interesting, Broba, Bishop Aaron Patrick, thank you both so much. Now,
26:30
Speaker 2: as we've been discussing, fuel prices are surging as the
26:32
Speaker 2: Middle East Wall squeezes supply and petrol is threatening to
26:36
Speaker 2: hit three dollars a liter joining me now is the
26:39
Speaker 2: chief executive of fuel importing company Freedom Fuels, Mark McKenzie. Mark,
26:44
Speaker 2: good to see you. Look first, can you give us
26:46
Speaker 2: an insight into supply how much fuel we have left
26:50
Speaker 2: at the moment, because we're hearing Chris Bowl and say
26:52
Speaker 2: that Australia has enough supply. Is this true?
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Speaker 15: It really depends sharion what happens from here. So the
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Speaker 15: fuel supply chain is a bit like a sushi train.
27:04
Speaker 15: You've got to keep putting fuel on the sushi train
27:07
Speaker 15: to make sure it actually arrives at port. We have
27:10
Speaker 15: seen all the vessels that were contracted in February have
27:14
Speaker 15: arrived in country. The real challenge is are we going
27:17
Speaker 15: to see the same in April? And I have to
27:20
Speaker 15: say to you that the betting money is probably no.
27:24
Speaker 15: We will see a reduction in the vessels that are
27:27
Speaker 15: landing with finished product, and there'll be people in the
27:30
Speaker 15: industry that will want to argue that It'll probably be
27:32
Speaker 15: an inconvenient truth for some of the politicians. But the
27:35
Speaker 15: reality here is that around the region we are seeing
27:39
Speaker 15: international refineries in Asia where we source fuel, turning down
27:43
Speaker 15: production because they're worried about oil supply in the near term.
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Speaker 2: So do we need to be preparing for that now
27:50
Speaker 2: by rationing supply, urging motorists to start to cut down
27:57
Speaker 2: on non essential travel. To carpool.
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Speaker 15: That's a really difficult question, Shari. I think the first
28:04
Speaker 15: thing to actually understand is that we had a number
28:07
Speaker 15: of the big fuel companies that actually announced that they
28:10
Speaker 15: were turning off off contract supply. So what that means
28:15
Speaker 15: is those fuel companies that were providing fuel to businesses
28:20
Speaker 15: that were on contract continue to receive supply, but those
28:24
Speaker 15: who purchase on what we call the spot market have
28:26
Speaker 15: been turned off. Now there's a little bit of an
28:29
Speaker 15: underestimate that's just been used as a pretty glib statement,
28:33
Speaker 15: but to give you an idea of what that actually means,
28:35
Speaker 15: that's eight hundred and seventy million liters a month that
28:40
Speaker 15: has been turned off. So to a certain extent, we're
28:43
Speaker 15: already starting to curtail supply by some of the decisions
28:47
Speaker 15: that have been made unilaterally by fuel suppliers around the country.
28:52
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of discussion about why we're in
28:55
Speaker 2: this position. I mean, how exposed is Australia with just
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Speaker 2: two fineries left.
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Speaker 15: I think the real issue here isn't so much refining.
29:05
Speaker 15: It's about having storage of petrol and diesel product. We
29:09
Speaker 15: don't put oil in our cars, we use diesel in
29:11
Speaker 15: our trucks, our tractors, our farm equipment. We use petrol
29:15
Speaker 15: in our cars. So it's more about how do we
29:18
Speaker 15: keep enough storage of finished product in the country. Now
29:22
Speaker 15: thirty six days, it's certainly better than we have been.
29:25
Speaker 15: It's below the level that a lot of people are
29:27
Speaker 15: saying we need to be with ninety days at international
29:30
Speaker 15: Energy Agreement legislation. But there are countries around the world
29:35
Speaker 15: and in our region, including our parent company located in Japan,
29:40
Speaker 15: where they have one hundred and fifty days storage of
29:43
Speaker 15: finished product.
29:44
Speaker 2: Wow.
29:44
Speaker 15: So there's a real case. He Shari that we've been
29:47
Speaker 15: talking about this for a long time. We have worked
29:50
Speaker 15: on the basis that the sushi trains kept running, but
29:53
Speaker 15: we're really at the point now that the geopolitical situation
29:56
Speaker 15: has changed and we've got to have a serious conversation
29:59
Speaker 15: about are we up the storage in this country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean whenever there was a crisis, we have
30:04
Speaker 2: these sort of conversations. After the COVID pandemic, I mean
30:08
Speaker 2: in a different area, of course, we had the same
30:11
Speaker 2: supply issues of other things, and we said we need
30:14
Speaker 2: to make more, we need to be independent. It just
30:17
Speaker 2: doesn't happen. Mike McKenzie, appreciate your insights. Thank you. Now
30:22
Speaker 2: still to come. Trump claims they're winning the war. Well
30:24
Speaker 2: is this true? Elon Levy will join me live. And
30:28
Speaker 2: Tony Burke is under fire for his photo op with
30:31
Speaker 2: the Uranian soccer players after the captain of the team
30:34
Speaker 2: returned home. Ray Hadley will rip in after the break.
30:42
Speaker 2: Oh but two of the Iranian women who sought asylum
30:46
Speaker 2: in Australia have now withdrawn their bids to stay, and
30:49
Speaker 2: the captain, Zara Ganbari, has become the latest to reverse
30:53
Speaker 2: course with growing fears their families are facing intense pressure
30:58
Speaker 2: and punishment from the Ranian regime back home. Well, this morning,
31:02
Speaker 2: Ben fodamasked whether Tony Burke's smiling photo opportunity with the
31:06
Speaker 2: players handed the regime already made piece of evidence against
31:10
Speaker 2: the women.
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Speaker 5: The photo with Tony Burke has not helped anyone. It
31:16
Speaker 5: only makes life harder for those who've changed their mind
31:20
Speaker 5: and are on their way back to Iran. The people
31:24
Speaker 5: in positions of power can now say we saw what
31:27
Speaker 5: you did in Australia. You switched sides. And Tony Burke's
31:32
Speaker 5: photo well that's the proof. Women standing next to him
31:36
Speaker 5: all smiles. They've now got to go home. How safe
31:41
Speaker 5: are they now, mister Burke?
31:43
Speaker 2: And even this Herald article makes a similar point, basically
31:47
Speaker 2: saying that Burke's pr stunt was an own goal. Well
31:51
Speaker 2: joining me now, as always on a Monday radio legend,
31:54
Speaker 2: Ray Hadley Ray, good to see.
31:55
Speaker 1: You, Cherry, good to see that Tony Burke.
31:58
Speaker 16: When we spoke about this old ear on that Monday night,
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Speaker 16: pleading with them do something, They then pretended that they've
32:03
Speaker 16: been doing things behind the scenes, secretive stuff we couldn't
32:07
Speaker 16: tell you because it was most important to protect these people.
32:10
Speaker 16: And then as soon as the media put pressure on
32:14
Speaker 16: him to do something about it, he gets himself in
32:17
Speaker 16: front of a photographer or photographers.
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Speaker 1: With these young women.
32:21
Speaker 16: Now, these young women naively agreed to it, because I
32:24
Speaker 16: guess they were very happy to be offered asylum in Australia.
32:28
Speaker 16: The Iranian people, those back there, the Iranian guard, they're
32:33
Speaker 16: not Rhode scholars, but they'd figure out if they sent
32:35
Speaker 16: twenty people here and fifteen came back or twelve came back,
32:38
Speaker 16: they know who didn't come back. I mean, we can't
32:40
Speaker 16: escape that fact. But the fact that he took that
32:43
Speaker 16: photo opportunity and the Herald's right, it's an own goal,
32:46
Speaker 16: and Ben's right, it's an own goal. And it just
32:49
Speaker 16: goes to the bottom line with these ministers in senior positions. Look,
32:55
Speaker 16: I did a piece this morning, a telegraph about intellect
32:57
Speaker 16: and common sense. Now, you know, Chris on to another
33:00
Speaker 16: one about this bizarre thing about.
33:03
Speaker 1: Median leaders of petrol. Petrol not diesel.
33:06
Speaker 16: The farmers they know diesel, But I guess when you're
33:09
Speaker 16: driving an electric car like him, you're not quite aware
33:11
Speaker 16: of E ten unleaded and diesel.
33:13
Speaker 1: You've probably got no idea.
33:15
Speaker 2: And it's diesel where the prices have really gone.
33:18
Speaker 1: It has. But what I'm getting to is the common sense.
33:21
Speaker 16: The common sense would have been, if he was telling
33:23
Speaker 16: us the truth about being secretive about these negotiations behind
33:27
Speaker 16: closed doors, we'll keep them behind closed doors. I mean, yes,
33:31
Speaker 16: the Iranians would figure out when so many came back
33:33
Speaker 16: and so many didn't, that they probably sort of sylum
33:35
Speaker 16: in Australia. Don't make a big hullabaloo about it, just
33:39
Speaker 16: do it.
33:39
Speaker 2: But also the Iranians would see it as a piece
33:41
Speaker 2: of pro us propaganda. You know that the players being
33:47
Speaker 2: used in this photo opportunity, this display against them. Well
33:51
Speaker 2: there's the situation.
33:52
Speaker 16: There's no doubt they said to the families, and that
33:55
Speaker 16: got back to the girls. Only two left and they're
33:59
Speaker 16: going to or worse still, they might be executed because
34:02
Speaker 16: of your disloyalty to our wonderful nation. I mean, you
34:05
Speaker 16: are dealing with lunatics. You know you're doing. You can't.
34:09
Speaker 16: You can't deal with the people in Iran in any way,
34:12
Speaker 16: shape or form.
34:13
Speaker 1: And it was o fish of the.
34:16
Speaker 16: Minister to get involved in those you know, they've fatal opportunity.
34:19
Speaker 1: Just o fish and dumb and that's what he is.
34:22
Speaker 16: He's o fish and dumb and he's seen that through
34:24
Speaker 16: his entire career with travel and a whole range of
34:27
Speaker 16: other things that have.
34:27
Speaker 1: Besieged him since his early days.
34:29
Speaker 16: And now Chris Bowen doesn't know the difference between diesel
34:32
Speaker 16: petrol unleaded and E ten and he's the Minister for Energy.
34:37
Speaker 2: Well on the fel crisis, because this is becoming a
34:40
Speaker 2: massive issue as you say, farmers, motorists as well. It
34:44
Speaker 2: could affect food production as well, and there doesn't appear
34:49
Speaker 2: to be any plan. I mean, of course Chris Boldin
34:52
Speaker 2: made his big announcement, but the paperwork we find out
34:54
Speaker 2: hasn't even been done. That's not going to take effect
34:56
Speaker 2: for a few weeks at least.
34:57
Speaker 1: That's a month away.
34:58
Speaker 16: Yeah yeah, But the worst part was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
35:03
Speaker 16: last week there was no crisis, and then he had
35:06
Speaker 16: the audacity to blame the punters and said, you people
35:09
Speaker 16: out there, you're panic buying and you're causing problems. He
35:13
Speaker 16: got the Thursday and Friday and said we have a
35:16
Speaker 16: national emergency, but he didn't recognize it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
35:21
Speaker 16: Someone must have stuck him with the red hot paker
35:22
Speaker 16: up the clacker and said listen, old mate, we've got
35:25
Speaker 16: a real problem here and you need to do something
35:27
Speaker 16: about it.
35:27
Speaker 2: They were denying the reality and it's especially affecting people
35:31
Speaker 2: in regional and rural areas.
35:33
Speaker 16: And you know, you've got a huge audience out there
35:35
Speaker 16: in regional parts of Australia.
35:36
Speaker 1: They're doing it tough enough.
35:38
Speaker 16: I mean, we're dealing with cyclones, wet weather, drought, everything
35:42
Speaker 16: that goes with it, the primary producers and now we
35:45
Speaker 16: do this to them as well.
35:48
Speaker 1: I mean a sense of emergency.
35:50
Speaker 2: And what's so frustrating is that the war in Iran
35:54
Speaker 2: was on the cards for months. We were talking about
35:57
Speaker 2: whether Trump was going to move or not for about
36:00
Speaker 2: two or three months. So why didn't the government come
36:02
Speaker 2: up with a plout incapable?
36:05
Speaker 16: The Prime Minister's too busy jumping fences to get on
36:08
Speaker 16: with Alex Johnston and cheer him after you record breaking effort.
36:11
Speaker 2: We've got to ask you about that, right.
36:12
Speaker 16: Well, look, you be a knack because it's a fantastic
36:15
Speaker 16: achievement by Alex.
36:16
Speaker 1: He's for people in other states and territories.
36:18
Speaker 16: He's a wonderfully gifted footballer rugby league player who went
36:22
Speaker 16: past the record, created decades and decades agay by an
36:24
Speaker 16: equally gifted footballer called Ken Irvine, one of my favorites.
36:28
Speaker 16: And so there was a plea from Wayne Bennett for
36:30
Speaker 16: the people not to invade the pitchers. They did and
36:32
Speaker 16: it was never going to work.
36:33
Speaker 2: Sorry to intruct you, but it even said on the
36:36
Speaker 2: screens don't run onto the field. Shouldn't the Prime Minister
36:41
Speaker 2: obey the rules?
36:42
Speaker 16: Well you'd think so, but I mean, he's a he's
36:45
Speaker 16: an a fish.
36:46
Speaker 1: South Sydney supporter.
36:47
Speaker 16: South Sydney supporters aren't by nature a fish, but he's
36:50
Speaker 16: a fish and he did the wrong thing and he
36:52
Speaker 16: wanted to be part of the celebrations. Wayne Bennett, the
36:55
Speaker 16: coach is the most distinguished coach in the game and
36:58
Speaker 16: not a clearer made of mine. But he was filthy
37:01
Speaker 16: on the twenty odd minute break because his team lost
37:03
Speaker 16: the impetus to go on with the game because of it.
37:06
Speaker 1: Anyway, I've sidetracked. I've gone back to my rugby league career.
37:09
Speaker 2: No, no, but that's cool because I heard mirke Levy this
37:12
Speaker 2: morning say that he didn't think he should have done it.
37:14
Speaker 2: He said he's got the most reaction he's ever had
37:16
Speaker 2: from any topic. But I didn't know if it was
37:18
Speaker 2: good reaction or bad reaction. But the signs said do
37:21
Speaker 2: not go into the field. The Prime Minister wanted a
37:24
Speaker 2: good photo opportunity like Tony Burke, and.
37:26
Speaker 9: He ran well.
37:27
Speaker 16: The simple fact of the matter is the South Sidney
37:29
Speaker 16: people were full of a motion and that's good luck
37:31
Speaker 16: to them.
37:32
Speaker 1: But he's the Prime Minister. He's not Ockey Bliff from Redfern.
37:37
Speaker 1: He's the Prime Minister. He's supposed to set standards, yeah.
37:41
Speaker 16: Not come down on the goods, lift with the rival
37:44
Speaker 16: coach and make his way into the field, so and
37:46
Speaker 16: the only it's another case of Tony Burke. It's a
37:49
Speaker 16: photo opportunity. He couldn't miss it. He had to be there.
37:52
Speaker 16: Go to the dressing room, aunts of the game. Get
37:54
Speaker 16: the photo done there. Don't go down among all the
37:57
Speaker 16: other people who want to be part of it. You're
37:59
Speaker 16: the Prime minister. Be a bit dignified.
38:01
Speaker 2: Oh, these politicians that I mean, just dislike them so much.
38:05
Speaker 2: They just I don't know how we're going to put
38:07
Speaker 2: up with them for all these years to come, right.
38:10
Speaker 1: It could be two terms. Disast'll be two terms.
38:14
Speaker 2: All right.
38:15
Speaker 1: Good to see, thanks very much, very good to have
38:17
Speaker 1: your company.
38:18
Speaker 2: Still to come. Hollywood's elite can't help but take a
38:21
Speaker 2: punch at Trump at the Oscars and the President says
38:24
Speaker 2: they're winning the war, But why does Iran still have
38:28
Speaker 2: so much firepower? Elon Levy will join us live from
38:32
Speaker 2: Israel after the break. President Trump has been sending the
38:39
Speaker 2: message that he's winning the war.
38:43
Speaker 9: And we've won. Let me tell it, we've won. You know,
38:46
Speaker 9: you'd never like to say too early you won.
38:48
Speaker 1: We won.
38:49
Speaker 9: We won the best in the first hour it was over.
38:52
Speaker 12: The main thing is we have to win this. They
38:54
Speaker 12: win it quickly, but win it. And there are many
38:57
Speaker 12: people I'm just watching some of the news. Most people
39:01
Speaker 12: say it's already been won. It's just a question of when.
39:05
Speaker 12: As far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated.
39:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, Israel was hit over the weekend with a bombardment
39:13
Speaker 2: of over thirty missiles from Iran another ninety seven from
39:16
Speaker 2: Hesbela by the way, But more to the point, the
39:18
Speaker 2: Strait of Hormus risks impacting the global economy. It's caused
39:22
Speaker 2: an oil crisis. Joining me now is farm Israeli government
39:25
Speaker 2: spokesman Elon Levy. Good to see you. So as you
39:30
Speaker 2: just heard, Trump claims he's winning, but Iran is having
39:33
Speaker 2: success with the closure of the Strait of Hormu, similar
39:36
Speaker 2: to the Whoties. What's your assessment of how the war
39:40
Speaker 2: is going now?
39:42
Speaker 6: The fate of the war was determined in the first
39:44
Speaker 6: minute when Israel killed the Supreme leader and forty of
39:46
Speaker 6: his most senior officials. But the Iranian regime is proving
39:50
Speaker 6: why we were saying it is a global threat. Look
39:53
Speaker 6: at howard Is rightlessly and indiscriminately attacking the entire Gulf,
39:57
Speaker 6: shooting at Dubai, at Abu Dhabi, at Saudi ra be A, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
40:02
Speaker 6: even attacking Oman, the country that hosted those sham negotiations.
40:06
Speaker 6: It's firing ballistic missiles with cluster munitions at Israeli cities.
40:10
Speaker 6: That means they explode mid air, scattering to dozens of
40:14
Speaker 6: smaller bombs across a wide radius, causing damage. And of
40:19
Speaker 6: course now we're seeing potentially Iranian sleeper cells perpetrating acts
40:24
Speaker 6: of anti Semitic violence around the world. So the Iranian
40:27
Speaker 6: regime is desperate, it's scrambling, it's pulling the so called
40:31
Speaker 6: nuclear option, but it's proving to the whole world why
40:33
Speaker 6: it was so important to cut the Iranian threat down
40:36
Speaker 6: to size before it became too big to handle.
40:39
Speaker 2: Elen, what do you think about the suggestion that we've
40:42
Speaker 2: heard over the past few days that Israel's objectives ultimately
40:46
Speaker 2: might be different from America's.
40:50
Speaker 6: I think the United States understands there is going to
40:52
Speaker 6: be no peace in the Middle East as long as
40:54
Speaker 6: Iran is controlled by a regime that has sworn to
40:57
Speaker 6: death to America, death to Israel. Otherwise you're just going
41:01
Speaker 6: to kick the can down the road and wait for
41:03
Speaker 6: a war. In future. They both understand this has to
41:06
Speaker 6: end with a change of leadership in Iran, and that
41:09
Speaker 6: is why Israel is doing something very bold and brave.
41:12
Speaker 6: It is hummeling Iranian regime targets in order to give
41:15
Speaker 6: the people a fair shot to rise up against the regime.
41:19
Speaker 6: Let's remember slaughtered tens of thousands of them in the street.
41:24
Speaker 6: We understand we can take away Iran's ballistic missiles, take
41:27
Speaker 6: away its nuclear program, But the worst thing, the most
41:31
Speaker 6: dangerous thing, is to leave the regime nursing dreams and
41:34
Speaker 6: fantasies of revenge when the people are waiting for an
41:38
Speaker 6: opportunity to tear it down and build a free Iran.
41:41
Speaker 2: It does seem like Nedin Yao who's trying to manage
41:44
Speaker 2: expectations of a regime change, though I mean, he keeps
41:47
Speaker 2: saying it is now up to the Iranians. He said,
41:49
Speaker 2: you can a phrase similar to you can lead a
41:52
Speaker 2: host to water, can't make it drink. So there's obviously
41:55
Speaker 2: concern now that there might not be a regime change.
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Speaker 6: Israel understands it can't change the regime. There's no such
42:04
Speaker 6: thing as changing the regime from the air. It has
42:06
Speaker 6: to happen on the ground, and on the ground you
42:08
Speaker 6: have the Iranian people and Israel is softening up the
42:11
Speaker 6: Iranian regime so that you can have a revolution with
42:15
Speaker 6: air support against a regime that has no air defenses.
42:19
Speaker 6: The people want to bring down the regime. They just
42:22
Speaker 6: need a little bit of help. And President Trump promised
42:24
Speaker 6: help is on its way, and the US and Israel
42:26
Speaker 6: are bringing that help. But absolutely this is it's not
42:29
Speaker 6: a mechanical switch that you can flip a button and
42:32
Speaker 6: the regime will change. The Iranian people are going to
42:34
Speaker 6: have to make that decision, and for what it's worth
42:37
Speaker 6: their exiled leadership. The Crown Prince is telling Iranians now
42:42
Speaker 6: is the time to con make acts of sabotage against
42:45
Speaker 6: the regime. But don't take to the streets just yet.
42:48
Speaker 6: Wait for the signal the time is not right.
42:52
Speaker 2: Just in some other breaking news tonight, Israel is launching
42:55
Speaker 2: a targeted ground operation deeper into southern Lebanon. This is
42:59
Speaker 2: in response to I just mentioned a moment ago continuing
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Speaker 2: Hezbeler attacks. So can you tell us about the goal
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Speaker 2: of this ground push in South Lebanon.
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Speaker 6: Israel wants Hezbola to disarm Lebanon pledged to disarm Hezbola.
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Speaker 6: The last war ended with a ceasefire, a diplomatic agreement
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Speaker 6: that the Lebanese government would dismantle the Iranian proxy army
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Speaker 6: on its soil. They didn't. They were either unwilling unable
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Speaker 6: to tackle Hezbola, and Hezbolla is now firing drones and
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Speaker 6: missiles at Israeli families. So Israel is now saying, if
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Speaker 6: Lebanon isn't going to disarm hez Bolla, if the UN
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Speaker 6: isn't going to disarm hez Bolla, if the Lebanese people
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Speaker 6: aren't going to disarm hes Bolla, if Hesbola's not going
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Speaker 6: to disarm hez Bolla, I guess we're the only ones
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Speaker 6: who are going to do it. It's tragic that it's
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Speaker 6: come to this. This is evidence of the total failure
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Speaker 6: of international diplomacy, because there was a diplomatic plan to
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Speaker 6: dismantle this proxy army and the Lebanese just didn't enforce it.
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Speaker 6: So I'm angry as a citizen that so many men
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Speaker 6: my age are going to have to be called up
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Speaker 6: into reserves to go into Lebanon and mop up the
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Speaker 6: mess left behind by the United Nations and the Lebanese
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Speaker 6: who turned a blind eye when the Iranian proxy army
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Speaker 6: using their territory to fire missiles at Israeli families over
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Speaker 6: the border.
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Speaker 2: Actually just very quickly. I think that's a good point.
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Speaker 2: I mean, people might think of the IDF for the
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Speaker 2: Israeli army, some other you know, army or faceless men,
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Speaker 2: but it's just young often teenage people in the early twenties,
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Speaker 2: even people in their thirties, just regular people who have
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Speaker 2: to be called up to defend the state of Israel.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a good point that you just refer to.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Israel has a conscript army. It means most people
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Speaker 6: at the age of eighteen have to go in the army,
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Speaker 6: and many are then called into reserves, and they just
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Speaker 6: have to drop their families, their businesses, their careers, their
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Speaker 6: academic programs to go in uniform and defend their country.
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Speaker 6: And you know what, we'd much rather Lebanon solve the
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Speaker 6: problem of Hezbo then forcing us to do it ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, Elon Levy, thank you very much, appreciate
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Speaker 2: your time.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: After the break the oscars jokes from the woke elite
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Speaker 2: and who won the Big Awards. Well, Kosher Gada would
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Speaker 2: join us next. Well, the Oscars were on today and
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel made his usual jokes when introducing the nominees
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Speaker 2: for Best Documentary.
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Speaker 17: As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't
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Speaker 17: support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which,
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Speaker 17: And there are also documentaries where you walk around the
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Speaker 17: White House trying.
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Speaker 2: On shoes, and of course that was referring to the
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Speaker 2: Millennia documentary and joining Minowska News contributor Kosher Gada, Kosher,
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Speaker 2: thanks for your time. What were some of the other
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Speaker 2: moments we saw from the political elite in their speeches?
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Speaker 3: You know, Sho, I agree to be with you. I
45:56
Speaker 3: thought that other than a few examples here and there,
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Speaker 3: they were a little little bit restrained this year relative
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Speaker 3: to what they've been in the past. Maybe that's wishful
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Speaker 3: thinking on my part, but it feels like maybe they've
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Speaker 3: finally sort of gotten the memo that people don't want
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Speaker 3: to hear political commentary from our entertainers. That comment was
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Speaker 3: one Conan O'Bryan sort of made a jab at the
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Speaker 3: fact that no Brits were nominated for anything, and he
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Speaker 3: made a jab at Prince Andrew and the arrest, so
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Speaker 3: I think that was something that got some gasps from
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Speaker 3: the audience followed by laughter, and there were sort of
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Speaker 3: general comments.
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Speaker 2: There are a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Of pins that people wore about free Ukraine and free
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Speaker 3: Gaza and things like that, but it was generally pretty newted.
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Speaker 3: They stuck to their craft and I think that was
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Speaker 3: generally a step in the right direction because they certainly
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Speaker 3: have lost their way in recent years.
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Speaker 2: And Kasha, which films one big at the Oscars.
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Speaker 3: So one battle after another, is the one that sort
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Speaker 3: of swept most of the awards and one Best Picture,
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Speaker 3: and then Sinners was sort of the second place of awards,
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Speaker 3: including four Best Actor, and both of them sort of
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Speaker 3: have themes around racial Sinners is about the Mississippi in
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Speaker 3: the misset and the Mississippi in the Deep South in
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Speaker 3: the nineteen thirties, with sort of a supernatural element to it,
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Speaker 3: and then the other one is also about sort of
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Speaker 3: revolutionaries and domestic terrorists basically with the racial angle as well,
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Speaker 3: So no coincidence there. Hollywood loves to explore those racial themes,
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Speaker 3: and those are the top two winners of the night.
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Speaker 2: Just on another topic, I want to ask you about
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Speaker 2: Trump Save America Act. So this is requiring proof of
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Speaker 2: citizenship and photo ID to vote, but Kosher Democrats aren't
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Speaker 2: keen on this.
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Speaker 3: They sure aren't. It's very frustrating to people because this
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Speaker 3: is an eighty twenty issue, and there aren't a lot
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Speaker 3: of issues that are eighty twenty these days. This is
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Speaker 3: one of them. It's a no brainer. Everybody wants it.
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Speaker 3: It's very popular, It would be popular back with their constituencies.
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Speaker 3: The Democrats don't want it. And more infuriatingly, I would
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Speaker 3: say for many is that a lot of Republicans Actually,
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Speaker 3: you don't seem to want.
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Speaker 2: It as well.
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Speaker 3: There's sort of that establishment wing that's dragging their feet
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Speaker 3: or hiding before behind procedural barriers, and there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of pressure on them to get this done, but it's
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Speaker 3: really taking a long time and it's not in the bag.
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Speaker 2: Can you just tell us a little bit about the
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Speaker 2: why Trump is putting this through the sections of Democrat
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Speaker 2: supporters who might not have voter ID.
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Speaker 3: I mean it comes down to election integrity, which is
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Speaker 3: a long standing issue. It was of course made famous
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Speaker 3: by Trump in the last election in twenty twenty, and
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Speaker 3: we all know how that went down and what happened
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Speaker 3: after that. But the PREMI is basically being that in
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Speaker 3: a country with three hundred and forty million people, twenty
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Speaker 3: thirty million illegals, mass mail in balloting that has only
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Speaker 3: expanded over the years, where for all sorts of reasons,
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Speaker 3: not just because you're immobilized or overseas, for all sorts
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Speaker 3: of reasons you can just decide to vote by mail.
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Speaker 3: It just really muddies the waters, and people don't trust
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Speaker 3: the integrity of the election, rightly or wrongly. The perception
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Speaker 3: is there and that is a big, big problem for democracy.
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Speaker 3: So that's why he's pushing for that. Let's clean up
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Speaker 3: the elections. Let's make it so that only US citizens
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Speaker 3: can vote in person with.
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Speaker 2: I D all right, Koshi Gatta, thank you so much,
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Speaker 2: appreciate it, and thanks everyone for your company tonight. I'll
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Speaker 2: see you tomorrow at eight. But right now, here's Paul
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Speaker 2: Murray in the man Cave.