Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Ryan Bridge: Important things happening in the world and our pollies are fussing over the C-word
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, what a week it's been. AI's going to kill
- 0:02Speaker 1: us all, unless Putin gets there first. More drones from him, allegedly,
- 0:06Speaker 1: in the skies over Europe this week. Trump's pushing Carney
- 0:09Speaker 1: into the arms of another lover in Ursula von der Leyen.
- 0:12Speaker 1: The Aussies are making big moves to cut immigration. Central
- 0:16Speaker 1: banks hiking rates off the back of war and oil.
- 0:20Speaker 1: And here in New Zealand, we're dropping the C-bomb in
- 0:22Speaker 1: Parliament again, just for fun. This time it was Debbie
- 0:25Speaker 1: from the Māori Party. Things got a bit out of hand.
- 0:28Speaker 1: While the world was busy dealing with important matters like
- 0:31Speaker 1: preserving humanity, Willie Jackson was defending Debbie's C-bomb in the House.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Parliament's bouncer, the sergeant at arms, was called on to
- 0:39Speaker 1: help kick him out of the House. Wild times in
- 0:42Speaker 1: the debating chamber. The sergeant is really called on to
- 0:45Speaker 1: bounce politicians because politicians normally take their punishment and leave
- 0:50Speaker 1: and don't need bouncing. But Willie was having none of
- 0:52Speaker 1: that yesterday. The sergeant, who's Frankly got the most baller
- 0:57Speaker 1: job title up there with the usher of the black rod.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Great job titles. Thankfully was saved from getting his hands dirty.
- 1:05Speaker 1: He didn't need to bust out the mace and start
- 1:07Speaker 1: prodding the pollies with it. Jackson eventually left the chamber.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Parliament carried on, as did the rest of the world,
- 1:15Speaker 1: which was a bit busy actually on more important issues
- 1:18Speaker 1: of the day. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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