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The Rita Panahi Show | 14 October · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panahy Show. Good evening, you're
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  Speaker 1: watching The Rita Panahy Show. I'm James Morrow, filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Rita, and here's what we've got coming up tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The federal court has slapped down the government's decision to
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  Speaker 1: block a $ 1. 3 billion goldmine project in Blaney, New South Wales.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, the Blue Banded Bee case, and my panel's
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  Speaker 1: going to be here to discuss that case. and all
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  Speaker 1: the other big headlines in just a moment. Plus, activist
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  Speaker 1: Greta Thunberg joins the protests in France. Ralph Schulhammer will
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  Speaker 1: have the latest on that. And Josh Hammer will join
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  Speaker 1: me from the U.S. to discuss the latest controversy surrounding
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar and the big investigation Did she fraudulently get citizenship?
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna wanna watch that one. Plus, pop star Olivia Rodrigo, well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? She styles her hair with, I can't even
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  Speaker 1: believe I'm gonna say this, armpit sweat. Gross, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but DeeDee Dunleavy is going to tell us
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  Speaker 1: all about that and everything else going on in the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment world. And lefties losing it will be here featuring
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  Speaker 1: this Democrat wacko on local TV. I am a gig worker.
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  Speaker 2: I deliver a lot of groceries and packages for my community.
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  Speaker 2: So if you trust me, you know, delivering your groceries.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me with your vote.
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  Speaker 1: And I tell you what, that was real. That was
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  Speaker 1: not a sketch. That was not AI. But first, other
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  Speaker 1: big news today. The Daily Telegraph has revealed that a
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  Speaker 1: Western City Sydney media group earned a $ 300, 000 donation taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: grant after branding Sydney anti-Semitic attacks as, quote, a sham.
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  Speaker 1: This outfit called the One Path Network published videos branding Zionists, quote,
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  Speaker 1: mortal enemies of Islam, compared Israel's actions to the Nazi
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  Speaker 1: gas chambers, and claimed Sydney's spate of anti-Semitic attacks were
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  Speaker 1: all fake. Charming, right? But one past parent company, OPN
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  Speaker 1: Media Limited, received this grant in April from the federal government,
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  Speaker 1: just four months after the Bondi terror attacks. The funding
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  Speaker 1: grant was intended to strengthen social cohesion, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: while increasing tolerance and understanding between individuals and groups alike.
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  Speaker 1: in Australia, unquote. How's that working out for you?
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  Speaker 3: We have serious enemies, mortal enemies, whether we like it
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  Speaker 3: or not. Zionists are Jewish supremacists, as some scholars call them,
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  Speaker 3: are mortal enemies of Islam.
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  Speaker 1: Well, joining me now to discuss this and a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot more is Verve Communications' Prue McSween and News24 contributor
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  Speaker 1: James Bolt. James Bolt, let's start with you here on this.
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  Speaker 1: What is the story with Home Affairs, Tony Burke's department,
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  Speaker 1: giving six-figure grants to media companies in the name of
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  Speaker 1: social cohesion? And then we get this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right to talk about this being a taxpayer-funded thing,
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  Speaker 4: but let's get really more specific about it here. Jewish
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  Speaker 4: taxpayers are funding this with their taxes, and that's absolutely disgusting.
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  Speaker 4: So it really needs, like, the incredible find by the
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  Speaker 4: Daily Telegraph, the story that really should be, which all
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  Speaker 4: should be talking about, because we need to hear from
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  Speaker 4: Tony Burke now. Did this come up in screening? And
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  Speaker 4: if not, what adjustments are being made to the screening
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  Speaker 4: process to make sure this never happens again? And if
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  Speaker 4: it did come up in screening, well, what... perfect incredible
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  Speaker 4: works of good is this organization doing that you know
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  Speaker 4: they still got the funding so you know in a
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  Speaker 4: sense i hope they didn't come up in screening and
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  Speaker 4: we need to drastically redo how the screening process comes
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  Speaker 4: about for grants like this.
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  Speaker 1: Well james you know i know a lot of hands
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  Speaker 1: would have touched that briefing and that grant application before
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  Speaker 1: The check was cut and the money was signed and
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  Speaker 1: it was announced. But Prue McSween, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that there's something more disturbing with all of this. It
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  Speaker 1: is that we are spending all of this money on
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  Speaker 1: various multicultural groups. And I don't care if they're Muslim
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  Speaker 1: or whatever ethnicity or religious group. Because all of this
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  Speaker 1: money seems to be going to encourage people to maintain
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  Speaker 1: the identity that they came here with, rather than to
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  Speaker 1: fit in and join the broader family of Australia.
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  Speaker 5: 100%.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's an independent multicultural media transformation and sustainability program.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they come up with all these fancy names.
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  Speaker 6: But really, as you say, who is auditing this? Who
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  Speaker 6: is deciding where this money goes and who is auditing
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  Speaker 6: how it is being spent? You know, even Chris Mintz
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  Speaker 6: said that they make mistakes, that it's not opaque. And
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  Speaker 6: clearly they're doling out all this money. These were actually,
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  Speaker 6: you know, videos that we could look. Any dolt could
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  Speaker 6: have found them where they were calling, you know, Israelis terrorists.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, there is no accountability. And, of course, Burke
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  Speaker 6: is trying to offload it onto Anne Alley, the multicultural minister,
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  Speaker 6: and blame her. I mean, it is a total farce
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  Speaker 6: and joke and an affront to every Australian taxpayer.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think it's absolutely an affront. I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this whole idea that we spend $ 300
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  Speaker 1: million a year.
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  Speaker 1: To basically allow politicians to go out and buy the
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  Speaker 1: votes of ethnic communities. Full stop is a joke. It
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  Speaker 1: needs to stop. And if you really cared about social cohesion, that.
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  Speaker 1: is the first place you'd start. But friends, I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about something else that happened earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: The federal court, this is a huge decision. They slapped
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  Speaker 1: down the Albanese government's decision, the decision made at the
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  Speaker 1: time by the then Environment Minister, Tanja Plibersek, to block
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  Speaker 1: a $ 1. 3 billion goldmine proposal that was going to be
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  Speaker 1: done in Blaney, New South Wales, outside of Orange. In
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  Speaker 1: the decision, and you guys will remember, this was all
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  Speaker 1: about the blue banded bee and an Aboriginal dreaming story
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  Speaker 1: that was highly contested. Justice James Stelios slammed the decision,
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  Speaker 1: said it lacked procedural fairness. James Bolt, this is a
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  Speaker 1: huge win for Common Sense.
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  Speaker 8: Finally.
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  Speaker 4: Like, finally we get a good news story like this about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, our energy future, about jobs future, about investment
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  Speaker 4: coming into New South Wales. Unbelievably humiliating for Tanya Plover.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: As it was at the time and is now even worse.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we get through this and we just think,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell was all of this for if we
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  Speaker 4: can't even stand up to federal court challenge? But hopefully,
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  Speaker 4: just hopefully, this becomes something that international massive companies that
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  Speaker 4: are looking to invest in Australia because of our resources,
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  Speaker 4: they can just be a little bit more secure with
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  Speaker 4: their investment, thinking that this is the kind of precedent
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  Speaker 4: that gets set where they don't need to be worried
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  Speaker 4: about challenges coming down, which can blow 10-year projects completely
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  Speaker 4: out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, Prue, You're talking about these massive projects.
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  Speaker 1: This project was worth $ 1. 3 billion, probably in the scale
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  Speaker 1: of things. You know, I don't know how big that is.
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  Speaker 1: There are probably a lot bigger resources projects out there.
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  Speaker 1: But the sovereign risk that we have seen in this
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  Speaker 1: country from this alphabet soup of activist groups that go
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  Speaker 1: out there and decide we are going to use courts
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  Speaker 1: and lawfare and ministers to block projects– This should be
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  Speaker 1: a salutary warning that maybe that could be coming to
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  Speaker 1: an end or should be coming to an end.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yes, it should be. But, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 6: have as much confidence in the future. In the courts,
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  Speaker 6: we were lucky with this particular court, whoever decided, this
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  Speaker 6: justice who said... this is ridiculous, tell Plibersek she's dreaming,
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  Speaker 6: not the dreaming that we all thought she was trying
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  Speaker 6: to sell.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, I don't know if I agree with you, James.
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  Speaker 6: If I was the boss of a big mining company,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that I'd still have confidence in investing
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  Speaker 6: here when you've got this government in place, these woke
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  Speaker 6: opportunists who sit there, whether they be in the courts
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  Speaker 6: or in the ministry, and let's face it, how one
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  Speaker 6: person could hold up arbitrarily this huge mine that is
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  Speaker 6: going to bring so much economic, you know, comfort to
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  Speaker 6: the rest of the economy and stimulate our economy, which
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  Speaker 6: we now rely on so much. I just can't understand
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  Speaker 6: how it should be in the system that one person,
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  Speaker 6: one minister can hold a project like this up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it was all about, it was a Section 10,
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  Speaker 1: which is a thing that basically says you can't go
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  Speaker 1: forward with this about a tailings dam to protect these
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  Speaker 1: headwaters of this one river that had a contested story
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  Speaker 1: about it. But I want to stay with this just
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  Speaker 1: for one more minute here, James, because I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a bigger problem, too, for Anthony Albanese. So Tanya Plibersek,
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  Speaker 1: her decision has now been blown out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: The thing goes back to Marie Watt. But Tanya Plibersek
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  Speaker 1: now joins Anne Ali, Matt Keogh, a whole host of
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  Speaker 1: other ministers, Annika Wells, as being dead weight on this government.
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  Speaker 1: And James Bolt, my question for you is, is this
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  Speaker 1: the point where Anthony Albanese's political strategy of stability, or
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  Speaker 1: stability as he likes to call it, comes to a head?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you don't get rid of poor performers, eventually
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  Speaker 1: you wind up with a front bench full of poor performers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there is anything more he could possibly
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  Speaker 4: do to Tanya Plibersek he hasn't done already. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what areas of Siberia she's currently in in the
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  Speaker 4: Labor ministry, but... I think she'll remain there for the
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  Speaker 4: time being. But he is beset on all sides by
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  Speaker 4: people who aren't performing. But I think he just, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we've seen in the speeches he's given to Labor Party
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  Speaker 4: caucus this week, he still reckons they're kicking with the wind.
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  Speaker 4: He still reckons that no one can lay a hand
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  Speaker 4: on him. He might be right for the next election.
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  Speaker 4: I think, like, coalition can't really mount a challenge. They
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  Speaker 4: can't really go minister for minister with him, unfortunately. And
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  Speaker 4: One Nation just doesn't have the cattle at the moment
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  Speaker 4: to really say, OK, but this is our resources minister
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  Speaker 4: against yours. This is our defense minister against yours. As
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  Speaker 4: bad as they are, it's not a headache for them
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  Speaker 4: just yet.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you, though, there's so much support flowing
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  Speaker 1: to One Nation, big checks being written in electorates where
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  Speaker 1: you would not expect those checks being written. But you're right, James,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be all about the personnel and the
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  Speaker 1: policy that they wind up coming up with. Now, speaking, though,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this Blue Bandit B case, Prue, this dealt
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  Speaker 1: with an indigenous group and so on. But bigger indigenous
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  Speaker 1: issues are in the news again. Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan
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  Speaker 1: Davis has warned that indigenous children are now worse off
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  Speaker 1: under the Albanese government. And this is despite the voice
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  Speaker 1: effort and all of that effort. that they made talking
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  Speaker 1: big about Indigenous affairs when Labour came into power. Prue McSween,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to say that in terms of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the horrifying headlines we see every day about what goes
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  Speaker 1: on in these communities, this government really has broken a
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  Speaker 1: big promise. To Indigenous Australians.
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  Speaker 6: They have. 500 million bucks later spent, wasted on The Voice.
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  Speaker 1: Wasted.
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  Speaker 6: And we all, he was trying to con the Australians.
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  Speaker 6: Apart from the fact that he was trying to divide Australians,
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  Speaker 6: we knew that it was lip service, that in fact
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  Speaker 6: the whole Indigenous industry has been feeding off the government
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  Speaker 6: and the taxpayer and that no real solutions. As we know,
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  Speaker 6: and even now after this three years of Nothing has changed.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, things have got worse according to data collected
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  Speaker 6: by the Productivity Commission.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 6: And Professor Megan Davis, who was the one who was
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  Speaker 6: really trying to.
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  Speaker 5: Push the voice. I mean, it was her idea.
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  Speaker 6: Until we get real and understand that we need to
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  Speaker 6: step in and do what Abbott was going to do,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and I think this is where we needed
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  Speaker 6: to really say this is not working. We cannot worry
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  Speaker 6: about being called, you know, stolen generation people, that we've
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  Speaker 6: got to actually say we need to change the whole
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  Speaker 6: culture there and step right in and This is the
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  Speaker 6: only way we're going to close that gap.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, Prue. But James Paul, I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to politics for a second because there's been another story
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  Speaker 1: today here about Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we're getting into some territory of almost Bolshevik versus
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  Speaker 1: Menshevik kind of fights here because... This is far more bloody.
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  Speaker 1: This is far more bloody, yeah. You know, don't go
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  Speaker 1: down to the basement with Jim Chalmers, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: they've now had this big reveal today Jim Chalmers, on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, has been out there saying to the left,
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  Speaker 1: to the Australian Institute, don't come at things from a
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  Speaker 1: place of smug moral superiority. But we've also had news, James, that...
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Albanese essentially rolled Jim Chalmers on this decision with
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  Speaker 1: the ATO and has undercut him quite publicly. Are we
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  Speaker 1: starting to see some tensions here now mounting between our
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  Speaker 1: Treasurer and our Prime Minister?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's starting. I thought these guys
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  Speaker 4: have hated each other for years. I thought, like, everything
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  Speaker 4: we'd read, they are not close. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it is now starting to spill out into the speaking
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  Speaker 4: rooms of Canberra. Like, this is pretty public rebuking. I
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  Speaker 4: think Albanese knew exactly what he was doing when he
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  Speaker 4: said that, and Jim Chalmers can say today that, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's not rebuking of me all he wants.
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  Speaker 4: We know what we're looking at when we see that.
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  Speaker 4: They're not close. You know, the Hawke-Keating levels of not
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  Speaker 4: close is being seen right now. I think they absolutely
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  Speaker 4: can't stand each other. I think Chalmers can't wait for
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  Speaker 4: this guy to retire to the... beaches of Queensland. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like, again, if it gets to a point
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  Speaker 4: where it's actually an election issue, though, I'm not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think you're right, though, but if
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  Speaker 1: only we had had, or if we had, people with
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  Speaker 1: the calibre of intellect as Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think we're anywhere close to that. Finally, Priya,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about this. As a small
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  Speaker 1: business owner, we've spoken a lot on this set here
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  Speaker 1: about small business and government. And I have just been
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  Speaker 1: gobsmacked today by this news that the Albanese government has
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  Speaker 1: offered 200,000 public servants the lanyard-wearing classes, 9% pay rises.
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  Speaker 1: And for them, it's not enough. Now, as somebody who
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  Speaker 1: spent decades trying to meet a payroll requirement, Can we
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  Speaker 1: just get your honest reaction as a business owner?
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  Speaker 6: It's astounding and I am so furious about it because
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  Speaker 6: that's on top of all the other handouts he's given
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  Speaker 6: to private aged care homes to subsidise their wages and
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  Speaker 6: It's outrageous. You know, none of my staff have had
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  Speaker 6: a pay rise for a long time because I simply
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  Speaker 6: cannot afford it. And how dare they do this? You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's almost like they want to control. It's like a
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  Speaker 6: Stockholm syndrome that they have as a policy where if
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  Speaker 6: they can control the workers, they can control the thinking.
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  Speaker 6: And I think this is what's happened. They're keeping them
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  Speaker 6: captive by... feeding them out, capitulating to the unions, of course,
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  Speaker 6: all this money.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right, and I think it's all
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  Speaker 1: about dependency and buying votes with our money. James Bolt,
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  Speaker 1: Pruvik Sweet, thank you so much. Always a pleasure to chat. Well,
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  Speaker 1: those protests in France, they're showing no sign of slowing down. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: police fired tear gas in Nantes and in the Montparnasse
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood of Paris. And yesterday, there was a very special
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  Speaker 1: guest in attendance who joined the protest. None other than
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  Speaker 1: activist extraordinaire Greta Thunberg.
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  Speaker 10: People are stepping up and revolting and rebelling against the
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  Speaker 10: system we know it's not working in our favor which
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  Speaker 10: we can also see from the extremely violent response from
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  Speaker 10: the establishment where politicians are responding in a way that
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  Speaker 10: just shows that they're completely out of touch with reality
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  Speaker 10: and what people are actually living and going through and
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  Speaker 10: when police are protecting this extremely violent status quo at
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  Speaker 10: the expense of these children going out demanding their bare
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  Speaker 10: minimum just shows everything who they are really protecting.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe we trashed the economy because of that, girl? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring in broadcaster, columnist, and international relations expert, Ralph Schulhammer. Ralph,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me here. Tell us what
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  Speaker 1: the latest is out of France, but more than that,
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  Speaker 1: tell us what Greta Thunberg is doing in this, because
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  Speaker 1: I thought, last I checked, she was sailing to Gaza.
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  Speaker 11: Now, I have to admit, it's become a little bit sad.
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  Speaker 11: This is now one of these cases.
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  Speaker 12: She's like one of those Hollywood celebrities that wherever there
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  Speaker 12: is somebody marching, she tries to jump in front of
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  Speaker 12: that band and lead the march. But you saw it
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  Speaker 12: in this video, right, with her little Palestinian cloak. So
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  Speaker 12: apparently she maybe just came from Gaza. But there was
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  Speaker 12: like how many microphones? Were there like two? And there
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  Speaker 12: were a couple of people standing behind her. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 12: see it in this video now very well, too. It's over, right?
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  Speaker 11: I mean, the Greta Thunberg phenomenon is over.
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  Speaker 12: You were absolutely right, James, to say I cannot believe
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  Speaker 12: that this was one of the main reasons why we
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  Speaker 12: destroyed our economies and that every politician from Barack Obama
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  Speaker 12: to Arnold Schwarzenegger to, you know, you name it, was
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  Speaker 12: trying to get a photo op with her. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: this has been one of the more ridiculous episodes of
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  Speaker 12: Western decline, and I seriously hope that it's finally over.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it may be over at least that
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  Speaker 1: little chapter of it, but what you talk about there,
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  Speaker 1: ruining the economies, particularly de-industrializing Europe, that's having huge consequences
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  Speaker 1: right now all across the continent. And I've been fascinated
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  Speaker 1: also to look at what's happening in Spain, where they've
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  Speaker 1: had that virtually communist government under Sanchez. Spain's center-right People's
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  Speaker 1: Party and the far-right Vox Party are on track to
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  Speaker 1: win a combined parliamentary majority in an election coming up
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  Speaker 1: on November 29th. Tell us about this and tell us
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: about the economic crisis, but also that migrant crisis we
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: saw out of Ceuta and the regularization, they called it,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of more than a million illegal migrants. How has that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: contributed to what's happening in Spain?
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: Well, according to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, he called these
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: snap elections because of a housing crisis. So according to him,
• 18:20
  Speaker 12: this has nothing to do with Ceuta, this has nothing
• 18:21
  Speaker 12: to do with migration, and it has nothing to do
• 18:24
  Speaker 12: with deindustrialization. Now, you're correct that the right wing appears
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: to be on a track to win, but let's wait
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: and see. In Spain, we had the prediction that the
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: right is going to take over a couple of times.
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: We also had the same prediction after the last general election,
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: yet somehow Pedro Sanchez managed to remain in power. So
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: let's not celebrate the victory that has not yet occurred.
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: And there is another, if you forgive me this for
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: a second, James.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Sure, please.
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: There is another very interesting development going on that I'm
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: sure that many of your viewers have followed, right? Over
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: the last 24 hours, taking into account the time difference
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: with Australia, it might be a little bit more. There
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: has been this rumor that Ukrainian attacks on Russian data
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: centers have knocked out online support and online comments for
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: the AFD, for the European right-wing groups. I mean, it
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: turned out that even the BBC admitted that nothing like
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: that happened, but it is relevant for a very simple reason,
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: because what you see happening now, particularly in Europe, is
• 19:20
  Speaker 12: the establishment gearing up and trying to delegitimize votes to
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: the right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: I'll give you a very concrete example.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: You had the British prime minister, Andy Burnham, on camera
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: doing a podcast claiming that, well, in fact, Brexit probably
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: has also been a Russian influence operation. And then when
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: he was asked, well, how did they do it? How
• 19:39
  Speaker 12: many votes did they influence? He had no answer for this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: But you put out the rumor, like, you know, you insinuate, well,
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: if you vote for the AFD, it's not really your vote.
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: If you voted for Brexit, it was not really your vote.
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: It's kind of reverse Marxism in a sense to say
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: everybody who votes for parties to the right or issues
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: the right cares about, it's not because they truly believe it,
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: but because they have been duped by the Russians.
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: That's a very dangerous development.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it is a dangerous development. I mean, Ralph, we're
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: going to just talk about this for a second, too,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: because we saw this happen in the United States. That's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: where the playbook was first developed. And, you know, they
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: found that there were maybe I think it was $ 40, 000
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: or something like that worth of Facebook ads. It had
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: some connection to Russia. And somehow that wound up, they said,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: swinging the entire 2016 election. But is this Russia card
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: now the last thing that the European establishment has to play?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: The last card that they can play in the face
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of crises over migration, deindustrialization, and welfare states that are
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: completely out of control, particularly when you combine the huge
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: welfare bill with the lack of defense and the fact
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that there aren't big jobs anymore and they're taking in
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: massive numbers of migrants who get that welfare.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: No, no. It's not just the last card. It's one
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: of many cards.
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: They have another card already prepared, and that is if
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: it's not Vladimir Putin, it's Elon Musk and X. This
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: is the new tendency to basically claim that everything the
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: right is pointing out, you just mentioned it, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: migration going wrong, the welfare state coming to its breaking point,
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: that all of this is just propaganda, that's all foreign propaganda.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: For example, the European Union recently, it's just a funny story.
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: They organized a conference that was declaring the United States
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: as a foreign influence and malign information actor. Now, the
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: United States found that out and went to the European
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: Union and said, you cannot do this. So you cannot
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: make an entire conference basically claiming the United States are
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: a disinformation factory. So what the European Union did, it
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: gets better, what the European Union or the Foreign Service
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: of the European Union did, They no longer participated, but
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: they still financed it. Because this is, to answer your point,
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: this is the approach of the European establishment. Everything I
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: do not like is disinformation. And we can go into
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: the details, but to give another concrete example, you had
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: the now resigned German minister, the German social minister, Bärbel Baas,
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: And she claimed a couple of weeks ago that there
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: is no migration into the welfare system in Germany.
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: And every number, every official number shows the opposite. They
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: just say it. Then you point out that it's wrong.
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: And then they will accuse you of being a Russian,
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: Elon Musk, Donald Trump.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: You name it, disinformation influence agent. That's, again, a very
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: troublesome development.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Well, it is troublesome. And, you know, there's so much information, though,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: out there that needs to be gotten out there, but
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: they keep trying to censor it. One of those things here,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: very quickly, just before you go, shocking data that reveals
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that there have been 358 marriages involving a child in
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Germany since 2012, and.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Some of these have involved the partnering of an 11-year-old
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Iraqi girl, a 17-year-old Iraqi teenager. In 2018, there was
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: also a 14-year-old Afghan girl married to a 30-year-old Afghan man. Ralph,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: if this doesn't tell you everything you need to know
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: about the problem with cultures that are very unlike our own,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: shall we say, not assimilating at all, rather, into our
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: cultures and the horrors that are portrayed in their name.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: No, it tells you even more because the only reason
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: that we know of these cases, and by the way,
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: I think only 20 of those hundreds of marriages have
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: been annulled, is because the AFD made an information request.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: If it wouldn't have been for the AFD, we.
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: Would have never heard this story and this would simply
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: have continued. So once again, the right truly is not
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: far right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: They are just right. And I'm very glad that the
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: AFD brought this to our attention.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Ralph, I think you're absolutely right there. Thank you so
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: much for joining me. Really appreciate your time. Always great
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to chat. Thank you so much.
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Still to come, lefties losing it, plus U.S. congressman forges
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: her birth date. But why does it matter? We'll find
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: out with Josh Hammer in a moment. Well, folks, you
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: know what time it is. It's lefties losing it time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: And tonight we're going to meet Jamie West. She's standing
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: for city council in Fayette County, Indiana, and she's given
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: one of the most. Well, I don't know. I'm going
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to maybe let you decide the word. I'm going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: say it's an entertaining interview on local TV explaining. what
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: she hopes to achieve if she wins office.
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: My name is Jimmy West.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I'm a mother of three.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: They're all grown children.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: They're all pretty successful.
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: I'm proud of them.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I own a cleaning business called Queen Bee's Cleaning LLC
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because I am an environmentalist. That's why I named it that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And I am a gig worker.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I deliver a lot of groceries and packages for my community.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So if you trust me, you know, delivering your groceries,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Trust me with your vote.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I kind of feel like she makes Kamala
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Harris look like Winston Churchill here, but guess what? That
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: interview wasn't done there. Have a look at this.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: If you could choose only one major area for Fayette
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: County to invest more money in over the next four years,
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: roads and infrastructure, public safety, economic development, quality of life,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: or another area, which would you choose and why?
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: That's a hard one.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Decision to make because there's so many that we need.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: But I would choose our emergency services. I would choose
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the firemen, the police, the ambulances.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Look, I don't know. Let's cut her some slack. Maybe
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: she was just a bit nervous. Everybody's nervous their first
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: time on TV, right? But hey, let's hear what she
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: had to say about some of the big issues, like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the big issue of the day, data centers.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Definitely not data centers. They're horrible for the environment. They
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: will take, they want it because we got, Fayette County
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: is on an aquifer, which means that we have a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: lake beneath us, miles beneath us, where we have so
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: much water. And the data centers want that water, man.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, water. I don't know, maybe she could use a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: glass of water too. Just a thought. But best of
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: luck to her, and I'll tell you what, we'll bring
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you the results from that race on the U.S. Report
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: after Election Day. But anyway, let's move on to the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: world of celebrities, shall we? There is still Columbus Day
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: lunacy going on. Can you believe it? Check out singer
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Kacey Musgraves.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: That's right, what are you saying?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Is what now?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, yeah, actually, obviously, Columbus.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Literally the latest person to probably ever exist.
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: Like, for real. What a loser.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: You're a loser, Christopher Columbus.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: We hate you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: What a loser. Well, you know what I say to that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: You got it, Tony. Meanwhile, you may be following the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: controversy over Shane Gillis' supposedly sexist monologue on SNL this
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: past weekend. Everyone's been talking about it because apparently it
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was sexist and objectified women. But it looks like the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: left is not above some objectifying of their own. Just
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: have a listen to Jimmy Kimmel here talking about Donald
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zachariah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: We got a new White House press secretary.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Here he is.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: His name is Dan Fitzsimmons. He's a Harvard graduate. He's
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: got a master's from the Columbia Journalism School. He's known
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: for his fair and thoughtful... Oh, wait, just kidding. This
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: is the new press secretary, um, former Newsmax commentator Katie Zachariah,
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: seen here thinking.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: Um.
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: Katie met a number of qualifications for the job. She
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: has blonde hair. She can do a thumbs up. End
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: of list, really. What else do you need? Where do
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: they all get that same face? Is that makeup or
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: do they have a machine that stamps it on?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Hmm. Double standards? Much. Meanwhile, Jen Psaki, remember her? She
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was Joe Biden's own press secretary. She criticized Zachariah's performance
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: at the podium, saying that, well, that briefing was basically
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: an SNL skit, except it wasn't, and she said she'd
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: have a lot more to say at 9 p.m., But
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it wasn't long before she issued that tweet that people
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: started pointing out that Jen Psaki herself was hardly a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: star performer. Let's circle back, shall we, and remember some
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of her own choice performances.
• 28:47
  Speaker 13: I can, I'll circle back if there's more I can
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: share with you. I'll circle back with you if there's
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: more to convey. I'll have to just circle back with you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 13: We can circle back. I'm happy to circle back with you.
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: I can circle back. I will have to circle back
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: on that one.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: That's an excellent question. Oh, such an important question.
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: We will circle back with you and we'll circle back
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: with you. It's an interesting question, but we'll circle back.
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: I'm happy to circle back, but I'll have to circle
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: back with you on it. It's a good question, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: we'll circle back with you on this today. We will
• 29:11
  Speaker 13: certainly circle back with you more directly. I hate to
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: disappoint you, but I will have to circle back.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: All right, let's keep having fun here. It turns out
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: that questions around Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's wealth may not
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: be the only scandal that she has to deal with.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Attorney Jeanine Pirro has revealed that her office is examining
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Omar's financial disclosures, which showed that the reported value of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: businesses that her husband had surged from around $ 51, 000 in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: 2023 to as much as $ 30 million in 2024. Nice
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: work if you can get it. But it's not just
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the business ventures where there are questions. The New York
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Post is reporting, and this could be the big one here,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that Ilhan Omar's staff helped get her birthday changed in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: public records once the Minnesota Democrat was elected to Congress
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in 2018. Why is this important? Well, it has sparked
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: allegations that Omar misrepresented her age to secure U.S. citizenship.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Joining me now to discuss this and a whole lot
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: more is Article III Project Special Counsel and Shulman Fellow
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Josh Hammer. Josh, walk
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: me through this latest allegation and why it's so important
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: what year Ilhan Omar was born in.
• 30:33
  Speaker 14: So great to join you as always, James. So essentially,
• 30:36
  Speaker 14: there was a hard cutoff in order to get citizenship,
• 30:39
  Speaker 14: the method that she was.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Trying to do.
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: In order to establish whether or not you were a
• 30:44
  Speaker 14: minor at the time. And she forged the year essentially
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: on the paperwork by one year in order to make
• 30:50
  Speaker 14: sure that she was not a minor at the time,
• 30:53
  Speaker 14: in order to say that she actually was of adult age.
• 30:55
  Speaker 14: And it turned out that that actually was just a lie.
• 30:58
  Speaker 14: By the way, there are all sorts of other lies
• 30:59
  Speaker 14: that Ilhan Omar has committed over the course of her
• 31:01
  Speaker 14: not particularly illustrious career. It's been public information for years
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: now that she also lied about marrying her own brother,
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: also for purposes of trying to obtain fraudulently U.S.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Citizenship.
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: Indeed, her net worth has absolutely exploded. This is a
• 31:17
  Speaker 14: woman who was rescued by the magnanimous, beneficent, generous United
• 31:21
  Speaker 14: States of America from the horrific hinterlands of Mogadishu, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 14: who came here and has decided to just pilfer off
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: the back of the American taxpayer to the tune, we
• 31:32
  Speaker 14: now believe, of tens and tens of millions of dollars.
• 31:35
  Speaker 14: She has done this along with a lot of her
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: fellow Somalis in Minnesota. We know that the total damage
• 31:40
  Speaker 14: by the community is roughly between three and five, maybe six.
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: We don't even know how many billions of dollars. It's
• 31:46
  Speaker 14: actually even worse. When this whole scandal was starting to
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: come to surface about a year ago or so, we
• 31:51
  Speaker 14: also learned, James, that a lot of this money was
• 31:53
  Speaker 14: being sent back to Somalia, indeed actually going to terrorist
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: organizations such as al-Shabaab, a former offshoot of al-Qaeda. So,
• 32:02
  Speaker 14: I mean, it's just horrific. It's just absolutely horrific any
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: which way you splice it. Ultimately, my remedy is pretty straightforward.
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: The United States has a statute on the books that
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: allows for denaturalization. You can be stripped of your naturalized
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: citizenship if indeed it has come to life that you
• 32:19
  Speaker 14: defraud us, that you lied to us as a means
• 32:22
  Speaker 14: of getting that citizenship. It is a seldom invoked statute.
• 32:24
  Speaker 14: This DOJ has actually invoked it in a couple of
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: other instances. Personally, James, I've been being this drum for years.
• 32:31
  Speaker 14: I've been saying that this woman should be denaturalized and deported,
• 32:33
  Speaker 14: and I cannot possibly think of a better way to
• 32:37
  Speaker 14: rally the base in this midterm election than to try
• 32:40
  Speaker 14: to get this process in motion.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Well, look, I think that's absolutely right, getting it in motion.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Do you think it would succeed? Because on the prima
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: facie evidence, obviously it all has to be tested in
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the courts, all of this, the money, the citizenship. But
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: putting that aside, you know, this idea that she fraudulently
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: changed her date, her birth date, so that she was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: able to, and my understanding is, slide in with her parents' application...
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to become Americans, rather than have to make an application
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: herself as an adult. What do you rate the chances
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of her actually being put back on a plane?
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: Well, listen, I don't want to get the viewers' hopes
• 33:18
  Speaker 14: up falsely. I mean, there are the courts. There's also politics.
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: I mean, this would be quite a statement. Now, personally,
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: I would love nothing more than for it to happen.
• 33:27
  Speaker 14: But if we're being realistic here, you know, listen, I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 14: the DOJ is doing a lot. They're walking the chewing gum.
• 33:34
  Speaker 14: They're doing a lot of other things at once. Do
• 33:35
  Speaker 14: they really want to go here? It's ultimately a question
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: of political will. It's a question of use of resources.
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: It's a question of whether or not you want to
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: face the full-scale brunt of fury of the New York Times, CNN,
• 33:45
  Speaker 14: MS now in the left-wing media complex in the United States.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't terrify me with that. Don't terrify me with that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Don't tempt me with a good time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 14: Right. You know, personally, James, if I were advising Tom Blanche,
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: I would say you should go ahead and do this.
• 33:58
  Speaker 14: I assume the evidence leaves there, but I don't want
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: to over-promise and under-deliver.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, the fact, I guess that there's been,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you know, an indictment handed down by a court and
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a warrant, well, or a warrant handed down by a
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: court that suggests there is some real evidence here. But, hey,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I want to move on.
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: A warrant by a liberal judge, by the way. A
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: liberal judge issued that warrant.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: And so that suggests that there's got to be some
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: basis to all this. So hopefully justice will be done
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in this case, Josh. But you mentioned the midterms before.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And one of the things I've been talking about on
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: this program and elsewhere is how skewed the polls seem
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to be. Everybody's saying, oh, it's going to be a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: big night for the Democrats come November. But it feels
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: a bit like the whole red wave that didn't materialize
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: four years ago. Well, pollster Mark Harris has come up
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: with an interesting theory, which he put out on X Today.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: And he said that in his polls, he's been getting
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: far more Democrats who claim to have voted in all
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: four of the last four elections in his polls than
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you would normally expect. And he suggests that this could
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: be one of the reasons why there's an overrepresentation of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Democrats skewing things in the polls. Josh, could this be
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the solution and maybe explain the other side of the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: equation that it's not just shy Trump voters or shy
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Republican voters, but also overhyped Democrat voters that are maybe
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: driving some of these polls in different directions?
• 35:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, my friend Ryan Grzeski, who does a
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: lot of polling analysis here in the U.S., has been
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: making this exact point for months and months and months now,
• 35:26
  Speaker 14: which is it's not just that Trump voters essentially just
• 35:30
  Speaker 14: hang on the phone whenever a pollster calls, which we
• 35:32
  Speaker 14: know that they do, and frankly, for fairly good reason.
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: It's not just that, but you have a lot of
• 35:37
  Speaker 14: liberals who are just addicted to MS now. They're basically
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: these single cat ladies in their 40s and 50s who
• 35:43
  Speaker 14: sit around and basically wait for the phone call whether
• 35:47
  Speaker 14: it's auntie, whether it's the friend to go get a
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: drink or a cup of tea, or frankly, whether it's
• 35:50
  Speaker 14: a political pollster to see how much they hate the
• 35:52
  Speaker 14: orange man. And they are just.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: eager.
• 35:55
  Speaker 14: They are anxious to tell the pollster how much they
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: hate Donald Trump. We actually saw this, perhaps most directly,
• 36:02
  Speaker 14: we saw this in the final poll prior to the
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: 2024 presidential election by Ann Seltzer. Ann Seltzer was considered
• 36:09
  Speaker 14: the doyen. She was considered the queen bee of Iowa politics.
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: She did a poll for the Des Moines Register. It
• 36:15
  Speaker 14: was considered to be the gold standard And boy, did
• 36:18
  Speaker 14: she mess up. She had Kamala Harris winning handily, being
• 36:21
  Speaker 14: Donald Trump handily, because she dramatically, dramatically oversampled older Democrats
• 36:27
  Speaker 14: in particular. Again, the exact kind of person who is
• 36:29
  Speaker 14: just sitting by the phone waiting for a phone call.
• 36:31
  Speaker 14: So it's not just this cycle. There's been a few
• 36:33
  Speaker 14: cycles now where we've seen this happen. And it's one
• 36:35
  Speaker 14: of many reasons, James, where I'm not going to go
• 36:37
  Speaker 14: ahead and say the Republicans will keep both houses. I
• 36:39
  Speaker 14: think the House is likely gone, but I do think
• 36:42
  Speaker 14: the Republicans probably keep the Senate. I'm definitely not blackpilled.
• 36:45
  Speaker 14: I'm definitely not a doomsday, that's for sure.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and I mean, Josh, I think what we're
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: talking about here is not so much, yeah, obviously the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Democrats will have some wins.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: It's a midterm.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: That's always what happens with a party that's not empowered.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But my point, Josh, is that all the blackpilling that
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: we're seeing and also all the gleeful headlines from the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: mainstream media that say, oh, you know, Trump's going to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: get obliterated. There's this wave of fury out there in
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the electorate and he's gone. But I've also seen that
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in some states, voter registration numbers have been up for
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the Republicans. And the early mail-in ballots have also suggested
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that Republican counties in some states are doing better than
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: they're expected as well, which would also be a good
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: sign for the GOP.
• 37:25
  Speaker 14: Yeah, for sure. And again, there's absolutely right. Now, early
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: voting is actually fascinating because for a long time, Democrats
• 37:32
  Speaker 14: dominated the early vote. That is also something that has
• 37:34
  Speaker 14: started to change over the past couple of election cycles. Now,
• 37:37
  Speaker 14: early voting is also an infamously fraught endeavor. You don't
• 37:41
  Speaker 14: want to read Too much into it because you don't
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: want to risk having a ton of early vote turnout
• 37:45
  Speaker 14: and then risk no one showing up on Election Day. Ultimately,
• 37:48
  Speaker 14: whenever you vote is fine as long as you vote.
• 37:52
  Speaker 14: But I'm just not buying the fact that Democrats are
• 37:55
  Speaker 14: going to have a massive blue wave in this election.
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: I'm simply just not buying it. There's all this talk
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: that various red states like Kansas and Alaska– I, you know,
• 38:05
  Speaker 14: even Mississippi, I've heard, I've heard people say, say that
• 38:08
  Speaker 14: there's this hot Democrat candidate in Mississippi. Give me a break.
• 38:12
  Speaker 14: Democrats are not winning Mississippi. They're not winning Kansas. Frankly,
• 38:17
  Speaker 14: I think Abdul side loses in Michigan. I think Susan
• 38:20
  Speaker 14: Collins wins reelection in Maine. There could be some Republican losses.
• 38:23
  Speaker 14: North Carolina could be lost. Ohio is going to be
• 38:26
  Speaker 14: a nail-biter, entirely possible. John Hussey loses Ohio. But overall,
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: I think Republicans will have some big wins as well.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, look, I think you're right. I think El-Sayed
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: is gone in Michigan. I think Tallarico is gone in Texas.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And I think you're right about Susan Collins in Maine, too. But, hey,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: let's move on, too. More news sort of on the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: international front here with President Donald Trump accusing Yemen and
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Houthi militants of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: ahead of the U.S. elections. Tell us about this here
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and what are we seeing in terms of these international
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: players basically attempting to try to affect these midterm elections?
• 39:07
  Speaker 14: So I think that Trump is exactly right. I think
• 39:09
  Speaker 14: that he is completely right. By the way, it's not
• 39:11
  Speaker 14: just the Houthis. The Houthis are essentially an Iranian proxy
• 39:14
  Speaker 14: that has been engaged in a civil war in Yemen
• 39:16
  Speaker 14: for over a decade. It's been going on for a
• 39:19
  Speaker 14: long time now. The Yemeni government does not have a
• 39:22
  Speaker 14: monopoly on the use of force. They are not a
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: fully sovereign power in their own country. Essentially, you have
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: Iran backing the Houthis, perhaps the Qataris, the Turks as well.
• 39:31
  Speaker 14: And then you had that for a long time, this
• 39:33
  Speaker 14: Saudi-Emirati coalition backing the nominal government in Yemen. There's also
• 39:38
  Speaker 14: been a Saudi-Emirati split. It's kind of in the weeds stuff.
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: But it's escalated in recent weeks dramatically with the Houthis.
• 39:47
  Speaker 14: trying to seize crucial waterways, these straits leading into the
• 39:49
  Speaker 14: Red Sea. And then just this past weekend, they actually
• 39:53
  Speaker 14: successfully bombed, tragically, the major international airport in Riyadh, the
• 39:57
  Speaker 14: largest airport in the capital city of Saudi Arabia, killing
• 40:00
  Speaker 14: a dozen or more people. Horrible, horrible stuff. And yes,
• 40:04
  Speaker 14: I totally think that they are doing this as the
• 40:08
  Speaker 14: Iranian regime, by the way, did the exact same thing
• 40:10
  Speaker 14: while the military conflict was still hot with the U.S.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: And Israel.
• 40:13
  Speaker 14: They did the exact same thing, James. They're also trying
• 40:15
  Speaker 14: to drive up oil prices.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: It's very simple. because they want Trump to be diminished
• 40:20
  Speaker 14: in power because they see Democrats. They see the Abdul
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: Syed pro-Muslim Brotherhood, pro-Iran Democrats, and they think, oh, my God,
• 40:29
  Speaker 14: we'll be scot-free. We'll be off the hook if these
• 40:31
  Speaker 14: absolute bozos win. Let's make sure that oil prices are up. Therefore,
• 40:35
  Speaker 14: American consumers are going to pay for the pump. They
• 40:36
  Speaker 14: will vote for the Trump Republicans out. That's the calculus, basically.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: That is the calculus, Josh. But is there a calculus
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: on the other side for the White House? Because Donald Trump,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and I think wisely, has said that while he'll never
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: forget what happened in Riyadh and what the Houthis have
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: done to Saudi Arabia, he's still diffident about whether or
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: not they're going to wind up getting involved militarily and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: helping Saudi Arabia, is the other danger, not just gas prices,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: but Trump supporters who voted for him, particularly younger Trump
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: supporters who voted for him on the basis of no
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: new foreign engagements, the danger of him appearing to get
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: sucked into what you rightly describe as the weeds of
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: very complicated disputes between a lot of very difficult to
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: understand and parse groups where you don't really know who's
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: fighting who in a very complicated part of the world
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: that maybe we don't want a part of.
• 41:28
  Speaker 14: Yeah, so I don't necessarily think that Donald Trump should
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: get involved here. I don't think that he necessarily should
• 41:33
  Speaker 14: start bombing Houthi assets. By the way, we've done plenty
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: of that already in the first few months of the administration.
• 41:41
  Speaker 14: In February, March 2025, we actually were bombing Houthi assets
• 41:44
  Speaker 14: because they were seizing tankers in the Red Sea and
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: so forth. We've done some of that already. Is now
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: really the time to get involved in this? Frankly, I
• 41:55
  Speaker 14: think not. I think in these final weeks, it's probably
• 41:56
  Speaker 14: time to just support our Saudi allies, whatever that may mean.
• 42:01
  Speaker 14: But we're not going to get directly involved in another
• 42:04
  Speaker 14: hot conflict. We frankly have done enough of that this year.
• 42:06
  Speaker 14: Let's focus here on the home front and focus on
• 42:08
  Speaker 14: the economy here in the final weeks.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh, I couldn't agree more.
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: Thanks.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to leave it there, but I
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: could talk to you for the whole hour. Thanks so much,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Josh Hammer, as always. You bet. Thank you. Coming up,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: armpit sweat is the new hair gel, according to Olivia Rodrigo.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: DeeDee Dunleavy joins me with more on that next. Welcome
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: back to The Rita Panahy Show. I'm James Morrow. Filling
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: in for Rita, let's talk about some entertainment news here.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: It seems pop star Olivia Rodrigo has split, or maybe
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I should say parted, public opinion with a video that
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: went viral from her tour in the U.S. Some say
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: it's the craziest thing she's ever done, while others have
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: called it outright disgusting. And I think I know where
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I stand. Let's have a look. Wiping armpit sweat and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: styling your hair with it. I can't see I've ever
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: seen that one before. Well, joining me now to discuss
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: this and so much more is broadcaster Didi Dunleavy. Didi,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Great to chat to you. Look,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you're looking fantastic tonight, but I have to wonder, have
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you ever used the Olivia Rodrigo technique on your hair?
• 43:32
  Speaker 9: Well, James, my hair needs all the help it can get,
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: so I might try a little ode to armpit.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Look, this is just the peak of celebrity absurdity, isn't it?
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: Olivia Rodrigo has millions of dollars. She probably has a
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: full glam squad and access to every hair product in
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: the world, and yet the solution for her.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Was to reach for her armpit. You know, I long
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: for the days when.
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: Celebrities used to just trash a hotel room in order
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: to get headlines.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: Now they had to do bizarre and in this particular
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: case revolting things in order to go viral.
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: I feel sorry for all the hairdressers who now realise
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: they wasted all their time doing all the training that
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: they did and I just, it's yuck. I don't think
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: her fans, those who are supporting her, would have found
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: it anywhere near as charming if it was a 50-year-old
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: bloke in.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: A pub.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, and look, I don't think so, Didi.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to say I think this whole story
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: is a bit on the nose, if you know what
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But, you know, let's move on to something
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit more wholesome. We all know that music,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: pop music, well, as perhaps that last clip just shows,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: is not what it used to be. We are still
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: desperately clinging on to pop stars from the 80s and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: even before that. But I got to ask about this
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: because surely there sometimes comes a point when musicians... just
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: get a little too long in the tooth to keep
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: performing because Beach Boys fans were left concerned when 85-year-old
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: frontman Mike Love, who's battling, quote, serious health issues, was
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: slumped on a chair at a performance in Ohio Saturday.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Have a look at this. MUSIC I mean, Deedee, I'm
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: sort of tempted to make a Joe Biden joke here,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: but this is a bit concerning here, and we've heard
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: about other performers who go out, you know, maybe long after,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: maybe they should have hung up the microphone. It's time, surely,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: for this fellow to, you know, maybe exit stage left.
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree, and I hope he has someone near
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: him that will reassure him that he doesn't need to
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: go on stage for his song and his legacy to remain.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, we have the music. There are two remaining
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Beach Boys and.
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: We have all those incredible songs, California Girls, Wouldn't It
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: Be Nice, my favourite love song of all time, God
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: Only Knows, the greatest love song ever written, I.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: Do believe, from the Beach Boys.
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: And look, he's from that old school, the show must
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: go on kind of, you know, that.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Breed of entertainers.
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: So I do admire him for making the effort, but
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: there's also an enormous amount of sadness here because the
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: way John Stamos was talking when he introduced.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Mike Love to the stage, I do wonder why.
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: How much time he has left, and I'm sorry to
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: be grim about it, but that's how it appeared to me.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, look, that's fair. It is just a bit
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: sad because, of course, it also makes us all sort of,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: you know, look in the mirror a bit here. But
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: let's go to the UK, too, where the BBC has
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: come under fire for its removal of a Strictly Come
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Dancing contestant's pro-trans T-shirt. Now, the contestant's top read, Protect
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the Dolls, which apparently is a solidarity with transgender women
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: sort of slogan. However, when this aired on Sunday, the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: words had been erased, leaving it blank. defended its decision
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: to remove the logo, saying that as is standard practice
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: in any entertainment show on the BBC and in line
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: with editorial guidelines, appropriate steps are taken to reduce the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: inclusion of any overt branding. What do we reckon about this, Deedee?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Because I kind of feel like if they let it
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: go through, we'd all be cross-legged. that they were politicising things,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: but where do you stand?
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah, they've really got themselves tied up in a knot,
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: haven't they? And I have zero sympathy for the BBC
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: because they've been running around and they've been editing programs,
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: Little Britain and horrible histories and trying to sanitise everything
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: so the children won't be offended. And now in trying
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: to avoid a controversy, they've actually created a controversy.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: So I have no sympathy at all.
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: Look, it isn't unusual for shows to ask people coming
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: onto those shows not to have logos or slogans on
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: their clothing. So the fact that they edited it out
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: is not entirely unusual, but they need to be transparent
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: about their reasons and they need to be consistent if
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: they're going to remove that slogan.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: It's not one I personally agree with.
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: But if they're going to remove that one, then they've
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: got to do it to everyone and every slogan as well.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Well, look, I think that's exactly right here, Didi. And
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the problem is the utter lack of consistency by the
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: biased broadcasting corporation. And we have our own problems here,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I can assure you. with the ABC, our Australian version,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: down under. But let's move on over to everybody's favorite
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: topic here. Meghan Markle and her brand as ever, that's
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: what it's called, has hit yet another bump in the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: road as the Sussexes relocate back to the UK. Apparently,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Meghan's famous fruit spreads are up against a roadblock due
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: to food import and export rules. Can these guys get
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a break?
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: Do they deserve a break?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I think that's right.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: No, I don't necessarily think that they do.
• 48:51
  Speaker 9: Look, it's not quite the British invasion that she had planned,
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: is it? And, you know, they've come in, but the
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: jam can't get in. Even the jam doesn't want to
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: be associated with the Sussex brand anymore. This is a
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: regulatory issue. And what it tells us is that there's
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: no amount of pretty branding and pretty packaging that can
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: get you around the rules.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: The rules are the rules and she's.
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: Not going to be able to sell her jam in Britain,
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: so she'll have to find another way around it.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: It's just failure after failure for poor Megan, isn't it?
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: Aren't you sympathetic, James? Come on.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, look, I'm almost a little sympathetic, but I've
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: got to say they've really gotten themselves into a jam
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: with this one.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Didi. I couldn't resist. Didi, we're going to have
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: to leave it there. Thank you so much for your time.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: That's it for me. Thanks for your time this evening.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Late Edition is next.