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The Rita Panahi Show | 16 February · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring ruins Australia. This is the Winner Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Riata Panety Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, Support for One Nation surges in Victoria,
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Speaker 3: with the latest data showing the party could soon hold
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Speaker 3: a balance of power in the state.
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Speaker 2: The panel will join me to discuss the day's top headlines.
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Speaker 3: Shocking reports claiming Australia is one of the top consumers
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Speaker 3: of child abuse content in the world. Lawyer and anti
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Speaker 3: child exploitation campaigner Andrew Carpenter will have more on that. Shortly,
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Speaker 3: The Great Josh Hammer has the latest from the US,
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Speaker 3: including Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a blistering speech
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Speaker 3: in Munich condemning the weakness of certain European allies, and
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Speaker 3: later in the aur Kinsey's Schofield would join me with
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Speaker 3: all the latest royal and celebrity news.
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Speaker 2: Including on a famous.
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Speaker 3: Teds sufferer heading back to the US and talking about
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Speaker 3: left his losing Yeah. Tonight we featured Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria
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Speaker 3: Accazio Cortez opining about geopolitics.
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Speaker 4: I think that this is such a you know, I
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Speaker 4: think that.
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Speaker 5: This is a.
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Speaker 4: This is of course a very long standing policy of
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Speaker 4: the United States.
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Speaker 3: But first fresh polling is revealed that support for One
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Speaker 3: Nation is surging in Victoria, with the latest starter showing
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Speaker 3: the party could hold the balance of power after this
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Speaker 3: year's state election in November. The poll conducted by demos
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Speaker 3: AO and Premier National puts One Nation's primary vote at
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Speaker 3: twenty one percent, just two points behind Labor at twenty
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Speaker 3: three That's down a staggering fourteen percent compared to the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two election result. Primary vote support for the
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Speaker 3: Victorian Coalition has also taken a hit, dropping eight percent
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Speaker 3: since October last year, but thanks to One Nation preferences
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Speaker 3: it hassed, it increased its lead over Labor in the
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Speaker 3: two party per therred vote. They are leading fifty three
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Speaker 3: to forty seven percent. They're joining me now for more
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Speaker 3: on this is chief economists at the Institute of Public
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Speaker 3: Affairs Adam Crichton and Sky News contributor Louise Roberts.
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Speaker 2: Adam, I'll start with you.
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Speaker 3: One Nation is up twenty percent on its twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: two election result in Victoria. But how many of those
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Speaker 3: votes are from disaffected labor voters? How many from coalition
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Speaker 3: and what do you see the impact being at the
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Speaker 3: state election.
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Speaker 5: Well, certainly that's a great pole for One Nation and
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Speaker 5: a terrible poleful Labor. I mean, I think they were
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Speaker 5: down fourteen percentage points. You'd have to assume that half
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Speaker 5: of the support that's gone to One Nation is from
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Speaker 5: those Labor voters.
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Speaker 1: That's if we can believe that poll. Okay, it was
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Speaker 1: a big sample, fourteen hundred people.
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Speaker 5: Demos is not one of the better pulses, I believe,
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Speaker 5: or at least not the best, I should say, of course.
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Speaker 5: So look, let's wait and say I think it's an
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Speaker 5: overall it's good for the Libs. They be winning the
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Speaker 5: election One Nation, to be picking up twelve to fifteen
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Speaker 5: seats or something like that on those numbers in the
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Speaker 5: lower House, and it's.
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Speaker 1: A terrible poleful Labor.
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Speaker 5: They would lose certainly on those figures, no question, Louise.
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Speaker 3: There's not been a lot of preference discipline on the right.
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Speaker 3: Without a coalition or at very least a very well
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Speaker 3: communicated preference steel the Labor Greens alliance could prevail here
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Speaker 3: that you got the right vote fractured and they preference
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Speaker 3: very well on the left. Just about every Greens primary
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Speaker 3: vote eventually ends up with Labor.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 6: You make a very good point there, Rita, because the
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Speaker 6: Labor and the Greens do have a very well oiled
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Speaker 6: machine when it comes to preferences. They're very tight, very
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Speaker 6: tight machine in that way, whereas, of course the right
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Speaker 6: side of politics is very fractured and messy, and they've
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Speaker 6: really got to raise their game if they want to
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Speaker 6: take advantage of One Nation's rise, or else you'll see
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Speaker 6: a lot of Conservative votes practically go to waste.
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Speaker 7: I guess.
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Speaker 3: After the back of that polling, former Victorian Premier Jeff
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Speaker 3: Kennett has urged the coalition in Victoria to join forces
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Speaker 3: with One Nation and sign a preference still if it
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Speaker 3: will guarantee Labor's defeated the next election. Jeff Kennett told
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Speaker 3: the Australian newspaper that reasonable parties and Independence must unite
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Speaker 3: to throw up the Labor government, which has ruled the
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Speaker 3: state for fourteen years and is currently facing fresh accusations
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Speaker 3: of corruption regarding its dealings with the CFM MEU Adam
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Speaker 3: Mark good of the former premier to start advocating for
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Speaker 3: what we've been saying on this program for years, for years, Jeffrey,
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Speaker 3: better late than ever.
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Speaker 5: Well he's obviously a viewer of course. Well, look, I
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Speaker 5: mean he's right, they should do a deal. They must
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Speaker 5: do a deal. Historically, as you know, there's been great
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Speaker 5: reluctance on the Libs part because.
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Speaker 1: The Left attacks them for being associated with.
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Speaker 5: So called racist which which it seems to be now
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Speaker 5: as a third of the country apparently so. So it'll be
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Speaker 5: interesting to see whether the huge support for One Nation
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Speaker 5: actually means the Left is not so inclined to attack
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Speaker 5: the Liberal Party for being racist because they could be
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Speaker 5: alienating their own potential voters.
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Speaker 3: Well, the Liberal Party has got to stop being spooked
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Speaker 3: by that talks as well, o they the Liberal Party
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Speaker 3: are way too well, that's scared of any sort of
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Speaker 3: media backlash, activist backlash.
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Speaker 2: And it's to their detriment. Louise.
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Speaker 3: There's going to be a couple of tests for one
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Speaker 3: Nation's real support in the next few months, with by
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Speaker 3: elections in the Victorian state Seed of Nepean and also
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Speaker 3: in Susan Lee's federal seed of Farer, Farer, Farer, far Farer.
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Speaker 3: We'll get them in the South Wales. How do you
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Speaker 3: see that those two races. Because it's all well and
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Speaker 3: good for one Nation to be polling well in these
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Speaker 3: news polls and resis, but when it comes to actually
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Speaker 3: casting a vote, the result could be entirely different.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 6: So if it's soft in safe seat like Para, for example,
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Speaker 6: then you know, it just shows there wasn't the momentum
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Speaker 6: really there in the first place. It was more of
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Speaker 6: a bleip. It was more of a protest vote. They
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Speaker 6: need to be able to translate that into seats, and
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Speaker 6: certainly in the seat of Farah in New South Wales,
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Speaker 6: I know One Nation have been tapping up the city MP,
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Speaker 6: Helen Dalton, who's the sitting MP of Murray, New South
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Speaker 6: Wales MP, and they're sort of keen to sort of
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Speaker 6: tap into her voter base and issues that she demonstrates
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Speaker 6: and represents people on. Also businessmen like Darren de Bautley,
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Speaker 6: he's a local winemaker. They've also tapped him up too,
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Speaker 6: so they can see that someone who's in the area,
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Speaker 6: a very strong individual, is a good way for them
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Speaker 6: to go, certainly in Pharah. But if One Nation doesn't
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Speaker 6: perform well, then it's just as I say, it's just
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Speaker 6: a blip. It's not been the sort of earthquake that
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Speaker 6: we were all expecting in a way. But it's a
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Speaker 6: Conservative seat, icularly in Farah, so.
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Speaker 2: The sl do well really, but they should do well.
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Speaker 3: I think if they don't do well in that by election,
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Speaker 3: there's going to be real concerns for One Nation. I
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Speaker 3: don't expect them to do great things in the p
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Speaker 3: and I don't think that really a seat that's going
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Speaker 3: to gravitate to know.
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Speaker 2: It's One Nation.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's not a It's not a working class seat,
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Speaker 5: is it.
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Speaker 2: He's got some very affluent cortses down there.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's more like a Liberal win. That's
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Speaker 1: my pick.
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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about this piece.
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Speaker 3: Tom Switzer has written for The Australian newspaper about the
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Speaker 3: enduring ghastliness of Malcolm Turnbull after the former Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: surfaced once again last week to unload on the Liberal
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Speaker 3: Party's decision to roll Susan Lee, and he had this
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Speaker 3: to say about new leader Angus Taylor.
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Speaker 5: A lot of people say about Angus Taylor is he
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Speaker 5: is the best qualified idiot they've ever met.
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Speaker 3: Yes, charming stuff there from malc Tan, Tom Switzer wrote
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Speaker 3: in The Australian Turnbull's interventions are too often cheap and
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Speaker 3: unbecoming of a former leader of a great political party.
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Speaker 3: Instead of reasoned argument, he defaults to abuse and denigration.
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Speaker 2: From The Guardian to the ABC, he.
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Speaker 3: Delivers poisonous and deeply personal broadsides against liberal leaders and
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Speaker 3: the party he once led. Adam tom Switzer also wrote
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Speaker 3: that the only liberal leader he has refrained from denouncing is,
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Speaker 3: it seems, Susan Lee, perhaps because they share a similar,
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Speaker 3: smallerl liberal worldview. Yes, well that worked out well, didn't it,
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Speaker 3: the woman who helped destroy the party recording primary voter
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Speaker 3: of around fifteen percent. I mean, that's what Malcolm wants
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Speaker 3: for the party. I mean, I can't believe he's still
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Speaker 3: a member. I can't believe they still haven't thrown him out.
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Speaker 5: It's extraordinary behavior to use words like that like bier
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Speaker 5: and village idiot order for sorry idiot, wrote scholar mind Yeah,
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Speaker 5: a Rhode scholar. And I don't even understand, just from
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Speaker 5: a SELFI just point of view, why he's doing it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's entirely possible that Angus Tyler comes back
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Speaker 5: and does become Prime minister eventually.
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Speaker 1: You think he'd want to be friends.
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Speaker 5: With the Prime minister, and just on a social level,
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Speaker 5: he must have lots of liberal friends who find this
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Speaker 5: behavior really apports us.
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe he does, maybe he's got smaller liberal friends.
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Speaker 3: Louise I can't pretend to understand the motivations of Malcolm
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Speaker 3: Turnbull beyond the fact that I suspect he craves attention.
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Speaker 3: He likes doing interviews, he likes being headlines.
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Speaker 2: Likes being talked about. I think we're part of the
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Speaker 2: problem with Luiz. What do you say?
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Speaker 6: Perhaps but certain that's why he's nickname the ghost, isn't
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Speaker 6: he because he keeps sort of lurking around where he's
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Speaker 6: not wanted and coming out with very personal That's a
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Speaker 6: really personal comment to make about the new leader, isn't
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Speaker 6: it call immediate that way? And it's so unbecoming and
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Speaker 6: it's not constructive because if you really love Liberal Party,
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Speaker 6: he would step aside graciously and let the new leadership
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Speaker 6: team get on with it and bet in and actually
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Speaker 6: tackle the issues liberal voters want tackle, which is cost
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Speaker 6: of living, immigration, et cetera, et cetera. But with him
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Speaker 6: sniping from the sidelines, it adds no value and this
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Speaker 6: makes him look even more bitter than ever.
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Speaker 3: Really, Now to a bombshell submission claiming that Victoria's new
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Speaker 3: guaranteed work from home rights could see more police officers
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Speaker 3: leave the state's police force and make it more difficult to.
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Speaker 2: Recruit quality candidates.
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Speaker 3: A police association of Victoria told the Federal Parliament that
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Speaker 3: guaranteed remote work in other fields makes the mandatory station
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Speaker 3: duty and street patrols required for policing far less attractive.
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Speaker 3: That's a really interesting submission there, and they would know
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Speaker 3: precisely the impact this is having. Victoria's already facing massive
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Speaker 3: police shortages. There are hundreds of unfilled positions and forty
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Speaker 3: three police stations have either been shut down or had
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Speaker 3: their hours cut due to these shortfalls. And this is
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Speaker 3: happening Adam at a time where experiencing record rates of
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Speaker 3: crime in this city.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean forty three police stations is certainly quite shocking.
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Speaker 5: And as you say, I think crime is I think
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Speaker 5: there were two hundred and thirty five thousand victims of
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Speaker 5: crime in this state last year, which is up ten percent,
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Speaker 5: and that is I think, per capita, the worst of
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Speaker 5: all of the six states I believe in Australia.
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Speaker 1: It's probably also symptomatic that I think respect for.
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Speaker 5: The police in Victoria has had fallen a lot besui
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Speaker 5: of the COVID crackdown here, so there's less inclination to join.
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Speaker 5: And that's because of the government. That's because of the
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Speaker 5: labor government. It's you know, it's a very sad state
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Speaker 5: of affairs. Forty three stations, that's a lot.
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Speaker 3: And Louise, you can understand if you've got people looking
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Speaker 3: at a career in policing, and there are other jobs,
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Speaker 3: other industries where you've got this guaranteed work from home
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Speaker 3: where you can spend a couple of days in your
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Speaker 3: pajamas and you know, been watching a bit of TV,
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Speaker 3: doing a bit of washing in between logging in. That
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Speaker 3: may be a lot more attractive to someone looking at
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Speaker 3: a new job. And when you need cares, it's just
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Speaker 3: another hurdle you've got to overcome and.
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Speaker 6: Doesn't victor any candidates through it exactly to your point,
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Speaker 6: And I mean, you cannot police from your laund room, sadly,
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Speaker 6: so you know it's something you've got to be on
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Speaker 6: the beat with. And I really feel for frontline police
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Speaker 6: who are probably thinking, you know, Decenda Allen's work from
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Speaker 6: home obsession, did she ever consider at any point how
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Speaker 6: this is going to affect essential services like policing, when
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Speaker 6: they're already demoralized, they're short staffed, the crime rates through
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Speaker 6: the roof. At the good point you made, Adam about respect,
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Speaker 6: I do feel you know, I grew up in Melbourne
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Speaker 6: and we respected police, and I've noticed from trips there
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Speaker 6: recently that people it's not the same vibe for them,
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Speaker 6: which is really disappointing because they are a critical part
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Speaker 6: of our community infrastructure. So we don't need anything deterring
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Speaker 6: people from becoming police officers. That we need more incentives,
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Speaker 6: not a work from home sort of situation.
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Speaker 3: It's just crazy, it is, But you're right there definitely
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Speaker 3: has been a shift.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps it's changing back, but it's.
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Speaker 3: Also the people who were most pro law enforcement who
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Speaker 3: have got this negative view now because of how certain
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Speaker 3: police officers behaved during the COVID crackdowns in this state.
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Speaker 3: But really that was Australia wide, more pronounced here in Melbourne.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a view that the police have I think
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Speaker 5: is somehow left wing because of the COVID crackdown, But
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Speaker 5: they were just they were just doing what they were
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Speaker 5: told to do by the government, so I don't blame
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Speaker 5: them for that.
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Speaker 3: Well, the further some of them did it, and I
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Speaker 3: do think in this state the police command has become politicized,
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Speaker 3: deeply politicized. But yeah, those working at the cold face,
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Speaker 3: they're the ones who copped the brunt of all this.
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Speaker 3: Adam Crichton, Louis Roberts, thank you so much for your
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Speaker 3: time tonight. Let's turn our attention now to shocking data
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Speaker 3: showing that Australia is one of the top consumers of
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Speaker 3: live stream child abuse content in the world, along with
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Speaker 3: the UK and the US, based on reports from Childlife
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Speaker 3: and the International Justice Mission i JM also found that
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Speaker 3: most of the children be abuse and the people organizing
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Speaker 3: it are located in countries like the Philippines, Brazil and Columbia.
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Speaker 3: This comes amid a massive surge in the amount of
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Speaker 3: AI generated child exploitation videos. Joining me now is an
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Speaker 3: anti child exploitation advocate widely known as the man most
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Speaker 3: hated by Australian child sex offenders and one of South
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Speaker 3: Australia's leading lawyers, Andrew Carpenter. Andrew, we will get to
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Speaker 3: that issue of live streamed abuse shortly, but let's start
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Speaker 3: with AI. Our authorities equipped to deal with this explosion
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Speaker 3: of AI generated child abuse material.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely not. The law hasn't caught up with technology yet
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Speaker 8: and we saw in twenty twenty four there was the
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Speaker 8: Australian Mad Treatment Study which showed that one in three
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Speaker 8: girls and one in five boys will be sexually abuse
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Speaker 8: or have some form of sexual abuse for the eighteenth birthday. Now,
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Speaker 8: the hard thing here in South Australia is our government
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Speaker 8: of all concern with preventing two bikies from having a
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Speaker 8: beer at a pub than there are a thousand child
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Speaker 8: sex offenders going to a Wiggles concert. So until priorities change,
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Speaker 8: unfortunately this problem will continue.
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Speaker 3: Now Australia is said to be one of the top
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Speaker 3: consumers of live streamed child abuse content. That's a truly
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Speaker 3: evil crime. Explain to my audience what that is and
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Speaker 3: the difficulty in locating the victims and bring the perpetrators
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Speaker 3: to justice.
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Speaker 8: We're all basically starting during COVID, where the Sikos couldn't
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Speaker 8: go on their overseas holidays where they'd abuse children. So
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Speaker 8: what they do is they found a conduit in places
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Speaker 8: like Cambodia and Brazil and the Philippines to actually pay
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Speaker 8: people for sometimes the cost of a cup of copy
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Speaker 8: to actually a live stream child abuse occurring, so they
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Speaker 8: can actually coach someone into how they want to harm
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Speaker 8: a child. Now, the hard thing about authorities try and
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Speaker 8: find these people is they're not actually possessing this information
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Speaker 8: on their phone. They're live streaming it through encrypted absent
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Speaker 8: and it's gone. Now unless that the technological companies, the
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Speaker 8: ones that actually harbor this abuse and the ones that
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Speaker 8: actually enable these encrypt conversations to occur, there's probably nothing
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Speaker 8: that the Australian government can do. If you start throwing
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Speaker 8: bills and finds that these providers that actually permit this
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Speaker 8: from occurring, that's we might see actually a downturn in
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Speaker 8: these But the hard thing is it's not a problem
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Speaker 8: we can arrest out of. It's that prevalent in Australia
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Speaker 8: at the moment and it's going to keep occurring. I mean,
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Speaker 8: I'm scared to see how many percentage increase we have
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Speaker 8: in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: Tell my viewers what they can do to protect their children,
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Speaker 3: their grandchildren from becoming victims.
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Speaker 8: The best thing to know is strange danger is one
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Speaker 8: of the main prevalent online abuse, but in person abuse
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Speaker 8: is actually eighty percent likely that will be curred by
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Speaker 8: a relative. Now, the one thing that I always tell
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Speaker 8: parents is make sure you are very vigilant with your
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Speaker 8: children's use of social media, especially if for're above the
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Speaker 8: age of sixteen, but also games like roadblocks, where we've
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Speaker 8: seen thirteen thousand reports last year from roadblocks being implicated
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Speaker 8: in child abuse cases. And the hard thing is say,
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Speaker 8: with Snapchat, for instance, an offender can locate your child
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Speaker 8: through the Snapchat map function within half a meter of
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Speaker 8: where they are currently sitting, So that's one of the
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Speaker 8: main things that parents need to look out for. But
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Speaker 8: again yeah, which it's scared and even shows street and
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Speaker 8: also the percentage of someone's battery. So if a defender
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Speaker 8: tracks down a child and they're at home during the
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Speaker 8: day and their parents are not, they can actually use
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Speaker 8: the location to actually obtain and use exploitation material. And
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Speaker 8: actually it's now our currency online. These sicicos are actually
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Speaker 8: using it to not any trade but funder lifestyle.
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Speaker 3: It is just so frightening, and so many parents aren't
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Speaker 3: as tech savvy as their children and sadly as these
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Speaker 3: predators that are online praying on vulnerable children. Before you go,
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Speaker 3: if you were to give one bit of advice, to
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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister one bit of policy you'd like to
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Speaker 3: see what would that be?
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Speaker 8: When twenty twenty I started a campaign called Super for Survivors,
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Speaker 8: which basically it's aimed at allowing fitt of survivors to
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Speaker 8: access the superannuation of offenders. Now, this isn't a problem
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Speaker 8: we can't arrest out of. We need to actually make
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Speaker 8: sure that these individuals are hit with everything we have
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Speaker 8: to make sure these offenses don't occur, because if they
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Speaker 8: do stand to face losing everything they work for, they
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Speaker 8: might actually slow down. And the hard thing is that
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Speaker 8: the Albanezy government doesn't want to touch offenders super, but
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Speaker 8: they're more than happy to attack Australians Super were hard
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Speaker 8: working Australians supannuation. So we need to throw everything we
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Speaker 8: can at this to make sure that these crimes decrease.
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Speaker 8: And unfortunately, with poor conviction rates, the only thing that
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Speaker 8: we could do is try to make sure that we
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Speaker 8: hit them where it hurts, and that's a hip hocket.
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Speaker 3: Andrew Carpenter, thank you so much for your time. Still
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Speaker 3: to come. Lefties Losing ad plass. The latest from the US,
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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen. I meid growing fears the network is circling
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Speaker 3: the drain. What a happy headline that is. But I
19:33
Speaker 3: can't imagine why CNN is struggling. After all, they have
19:36
Speaker 3: a token conservative now it's Scott Jennings is on the network.
19:40
Speaker 3: Here are five lefties, including the hosts, just yelling at him.
19:44
Speaker 2: For existing.
19:49
Speaker 7: Figure a fact.
19:55
Speaker 3: I can't understand why that's not rating. It's hugely entertaining.
20:00
Speaker 3: Let's have an example of the balance that seeing An
20:03
Speaker 3: is famous for from Abby Philip. Let's see Abby's always
20:07
Speaker 3: consistent analysis when elan Omar was sprayed with salad dressing
20:12
Speaker 3: compared to when President Trump was shot by a deranged lefty.
20:17
Speaker 7: Ilihan Omar in particular has been the center and you
20:21
Speaker 7: heard it there from the President, the center of a
20:23
Speaker 7: lot of awful attacks. He called her garbage. Donald Trump
20:28
Speaker 7: is actually responsible for the vitriol. So is there going
20:32
Speaker 7: to be any acknowledged acknowledgment of that should there be.
20:35
Speaker 7: It's not about the politics of the individual. I mean,
20:37
Speaker 7: look at these people. The thing that they have in
20:40
Speaker 7: common is their complete lack of mental stability. Why is
20:43
Speaker 7: that not the conversation why are we in this place
20:46
Speaker 7: of who's to blame? Is that the Democrats are the Republicans.
20:49
Speaker 7: The Republicans aren't trying to assassinate the Democrats, and a
20:53
Speaker 7: lot of talk of they and when it's not when
20:55
Speaker 7: it's not they, it's just a person. It's it's it's
20:58
Speaker 7: an individual.
21:00
Speaker 3: Hopefully now from transactivist Lily Tino Contino, who has gone
21:05
Speaker 3: from being passive aggressive to aggressive aggressive. Fresh from being
21:10
Speaker 3: investigated by authorities for filming real women in female restrooms
21:14
Speaker 3: in Disney, Contino is claiming that if you're guilty of
21:18
Speaker 3: the crime of misgendering, then there will be a confrontation.
21:22
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the dudes are losing it because.
21:26
Speaker 9: If we meet and you call me by the wrong pronouns,
21:28
Speaker 9: it's going to be a confrontation. And I don't think
21:30
Speaker 9: you want that. I think you just want to go
21:32
Speaker 9: about your day. I want to go about my day.
21:34
Speaker 9: I don't want to have to be upset about getting misgendered.
21:37
Speaker 9: And I know you don't want to purposely upset people.
21:40
Speaker 9: And if you do want to purposely upset people, then
21:43
Speaker 9: you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself,
21:45
Speaker 9: why why am I like this? Why do I want
21:47
Speaker 9: to make people's lives harder? Why don't I want to
21:51
Speaker 9: lift up my fellow human?
21:54
Speaker 3: You see, it's not about making lives harder. It's about
21:57
Speaker 3: not submitting to bullying or indulging in the delusions of
22:02
Speaker 3: confused folk, even if those confused folk are threatening confrontational violence.
22:08
Speaker 3: Now to Munich, where Secretary of State Marco Rubia delivered
22:11
Speaker 3: an exceptional speech, genuinely profound, but Alexandria Carzia Cortez, well,
22:18
Speaker 3: she wasn't impressed.
22:20
Speaker 4: Was a pure appeal to Western culture. My favorite part
22:27
Speaker 4: was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain.
22:32
Speaker 4: I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African and Slam
22:39
Speaker 4: people's would like to have a word on that.
22:45
Speaker 3: Actually, it did originate in Spain, and AOC might also
22:49
Speaker 3: want to reflect on why.
22:50
Speaker 2: Mexicans speak Spanish?
22:53
Speaker 3: How did that happen? Let's hear more from AOC here.
22:56
Speaker 3: She talks about culture and Western civilization a.
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Speaker 4: Fluid, evolving thing that that is a response to the
23:05
Speaker 4: conditions that we live in. And so they want to
23:09
Speaker 4: take this mantle of culture. At the end of the day,
23:12
Speaker 4: though is.
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Speaker 2: You know, it is very thin.
23:18
Speaker 3: The values that underpinned Western civilization, Western culture are very thin.
23:25
Speaker 3: W She's a Marxist and not a particularly bright one
23:28
Speaker 3: or an eloquent one. Listen here, as I say, struggles
23:31
Speaker 3: to answer the most obvious of questions about Taiwan.
23:35
Speaker 10: This is painful, Would and should the US actually commit
23:40
Speaker 10: US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
23:45
Speaker 4: You know, I think that this is such a you know,
23:52
Speaker 4: I think that.
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Speaker 11: This is a.
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Speaker 4: This is of course, a a very long standing policy
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Speaker 4: of the United States.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
24:06
Speaker 4: And I think what we are hoping for is that
24:08
Speaker 4: we want to make sure that we never get to
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Speaker 4: that point.
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Speaker 3: Oh dear, They're not sending their best, are they? But
24:16
Speaker 3: it gets worse. Also on that panel was the Democrat
24:20
Speaker 3: governor of Michigan, Gretchen Widmar. Listen to how she flounders
24:24
Speaker 3: trying to answer a question about Ukraine, and she even
24:28
Speaker 3: says that IOC is much better quip to talk about
24:31
Speaker 3: geopolitics the IOC. We just heard really goodness on Ukraine.
24:38
Speaker 1: What does victory look like?
24:43
Speaker 2: I love hear your answers.
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Speaker 12: It is the two.
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Speaker 11: The two that I am on the panel with are
24:52
Speaker 11: much more steeped in foreign policy than a governor is.
24:56
Speaker 11: But you know, I do think that Ukraine independents, keeping
25:01
Speaker 11: their land mass and having the support of all the allies,
25:06
Speaker 11: I think is the goal from my vantage point.
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Speaker 3: Now, compare the Democrats contribution at the Munich Security Conference
25:16
Speaker 3: to this blistering address from the Secretary of State Micro Rubio,
25:20
Speaker 3: who spelled out to America's European allies that the Trump
25:23
Speaker 3: administration has no interest in being polite and oddly caretakers
25:28
Speaker 3: of the West's managed decline.
25:30
Speaker 2: This is brilliant. Listen to every word.
25:34
Speaker 12: And this is why we do not want our allies
25:36
Speaker 12: to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want
25:40
Speaker 12: allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will
25:44
Speaker 12: ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is
25:47
Speaker 12: why we do not want our allies to be shackled
25:50
Speaker 12: by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud
25:52
Speaker 12: of their culture and of their heritage.
25:55
Speaker 1: Who understand that we are.
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Speaker 12: Heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who
26:00
Speaker 12: together with us, are willing and able to defend it.
26:05
Speaker 12: And this is why we do not want allies to
26:07
Speaker 12: rationalize the broken status quo. Rather than a reckon Willard
26:10
Speaker 12: is what.
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Speaker 1: Is necessary to fix it.
26:13
Speaker 12: For we in America have no interest in being polite
26:18
Speaker 12: and orderly caretakers of the West's managed.
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Speaker 3: Decline, and Marco Rubio made it clear that the US
26:26
Speaker 3: alliance with Europe must be built on strength and the
26:30
Speaker 3: values of Western civilization.
26:32
Speaker 2: I'm warning you you may need a cold shower or
26:35
Speaker 2: a cigarette after hearing this.
26:39
Speaker 12: We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an
26:42
Speaker 12: old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
26:47
Speaker 12: What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that
26:51
Speaker 12: what has ailed our societies is not just a set
26:53
Speaker 12: of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.
26:58
Speaker 12: An alliance is what that we want is one that
27:01
Speaker 12: is not paralyzed into an action by fear, fear of
27:04
Speaker 12: climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead, we
27:08
Speaker 12: want an alliance that boldly races into the future. And
27:11
Speaker 12: the only fear we have is the fear of the
27:14
Speaker 12: shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier
27:18
Speaker 12: for our children.
27:20
Speaker 1: An alliance ready.
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Speaker 12: To defend our people, to safeguard our interests, and to
27:24
Speaker 12: preserve the freedom of action that allows us to shape
27:27
Speaker 12: our own destiny, not one that exists to operate a
27:30
Speaker 12: global welfare state, and atone for the purported sins of
27:34
Speaker 12: past generations.
27:37
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Newsweek's senior editor at Large, Josh Hammer.
27:41
Speaker 2: Josh C.
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Speaker 3: Secretary of State, received a standing ovation after that speech.
27:46
Speaker 3: That is something to behold from the European political class.
27:50
Speaker 3: And that speech was profound, every single word.
27:56
Speaker 9: Rita.
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Speaker 13: It's a defining speech for Mark Rubia. He has already
27:59
Speaker 13: been historic Secretary of State. He is the first man
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Speaker 13: since Henry Kissinger to survey the dual capacity as Secretary
28:05
Speaker 13: of State and National security Advisor. He has arguably been
28:09
Speaker 13: at Donald Trump's number one foreign policy advisor when it
28:12
Speaker 13: comes to a lot of Donald Trump's louder Boulder moves
28:15
Speaker 13: on the world stage, things like the operation in Iran
28:18
Speaker 13: and last June, things like the Nicholas Maduro extraction in Venezuela,
28:22
Speaker 13: just about a month and a half ago there, and
28:24
Speaker 13: now he is coming to this venue deep in the
28:26
Speaker 13: heart of Europe, and he's giving an absolute barn burner
28:30
Speaker 13: of a half hour speech. Frankly, as someone who follows
28:33
Speaker 13: Mark Willia pretty closely, I think BA actually to a
28:36
Speaker 13: speech that he also gave in Jerusalem, and much short spech.
28:39
Speaker 13: He gave about a six to seven and made ten
28:40
Speaker 13: minutes speech in Jerusalem back in September to commemorate the
28:43
Speaker 13: opening of this new archaeological excavation there in the city
28:46
Speaker 13: of David, and he spoke very similarly about how the
28:49
Speaker 13: origins of Western civilization were laid here in these stones
28:52
Speaker 13: here in Jerusalem. And I kind of heard those overtones
28:55
Speaker 13: there with his reminder to the European powers, or at
28:58
Speaker 13: least the European former powers, that they have a rich
29:00
Speaker 13: heritage and a rich civilizational history. And look, he's basically saying,
29:04
Speaker 13: we don't want to divorce you. We're actually quite happy
29:07
Speaker 13: historically with being your partners when it comes to NATO,
29:10
Speaker 13: when it comes to the mutual thread of the Soviet Union,
29:13
Speaker 13: the Cold War there. But guess what the calendar is
29:16
Speaker 13: now twenty twenty six, and there are a lot of
29:18
Speaker 13: different threats on the world stage. There is the harrowing
29:22
Speaker 13: rise of communist China. There is the rise of Islamism there,
29:26
Speaker 13: and if Europe wants to remain relevant, they have to
29:29
Speaker 13: recover what they once were not doing a very good
29:32
Speaker 13: job of that, are we there. So it's a very
29:33
Speaker 13: solemn warning to the European leads. The fact that it
29:36
Speaker 13: frankly was received with no shorts of applause, as you
29:39
Speaker 13: correctly mentioned, Rita, shows that perhaps perhaps there is more
29:42
Speaker 13: of an appetite than some of us give them credit
29:44
Speaker 13: for for actually listening to this message. The prove ultimately,
29:47
Speaker 13: of course, will be in the pudding on that.
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Speaker 2: It will.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a very fractured Europe right now. You've
29:53
Speaker 3: got countries that have heard that warning that have turned
29:58
Speaker 3: to the center rise from it to Finland, and you've
30:03
Speaker 3: got other countries that are just further doubling down on
30:07
Speaker 3: that leftist mentality, that neo Marxist ideology. Now I want
30:13
Speaker 3: to play your Marco Rubio here, warning Western allies about
30:17
Speaker 3: outsourcing their power to systems beyond their control. This sounds
30:21
Speaker 3: like a rejection of globalization.
30:25
Speaker 12: An alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained,
30:29
Speaker 12: or subordinated to systems beyond its control, one that does
30:33
Speaker 12: not depend on others for the critical necessities of its
30:36
Speaker 12: national life, and one that does not maintain the polite
30:39
Speaker 12: pretense that our way of life is just one among many,
30:44
Speaker 12: and that asked for permission before it acts.
30:47
Speaker 3: Josh, she rejected the notion there that all cultures are equal,
30:51
Speaker 3: something that AOC was very aggrieved about when she spoke.
30:56
Speaker 2: Later.
30:57
Speaker 3: He equivocally stated in that beach, the value of Western
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Speaker 3: civilization you either protect it and advance it, or you
31:06
Speaker 3: destroyed from within.
31:07
Speaker 13: Josh, Look, reader, Marco Rubio is a nationalist. He is
31:12
Speaker 13: not a globalist. He is not a transnationalist. He is
31:14
Speaker 13: an American nationalist. His views when it comes to all
31:16
Speaker 13: sorts of issues have taken a markedly national direction, and
31:19
Speaker 13: they have been really trending that away for many, many
31:21
Speaker 13: years now. I actually remember back in twenty nineteen again
31:24
Speaker 13: I fall mark group pretty closely, especially as a Floridian
31:27
Speaker 13: by choice. He gave a speech at the Catholic University
31:30
Speaker 13: of America I believe was in twenty nineteen articulating his
31:33
Speaker 13: theory of economics, which you refer to as common good capitalism,
31:37
Speaker 13: which is kind of a more nationalist, less las a
31:40
Speaker 13: fair absolutist approach to economics there that calls for reshoring
31:44
Speaker 13: supply chains things they're trying to produce, more manufacturing at home,
31:48
Speaker 13: basically a rejection back then in economics when it comes
31:51
Speaker 13: to the siren song of globalism there, Globalism certainly has
31:54
Speaker 13: had his benefits when it comes to economics, lower prices,
31:57
Speaker 13: free traits out are there. But the point that Rubios
31:59
Speaker 13: makeing correctly is that it has come at a pretty
32:02
Speaker 13: steep cost as well. And now here in Munich he's
32:05
Speaker 13: doing a very similar thing when it comes not just
32:07
Speaker 13: to economics, but also when it comes to culture. He
32:11
Speaker 13: is correctly saying that not all cultures are equal. In fact,
32:14
Speaker 13: some cultures, I would argue, I think probably Rubio would too,
32:18
Speaker 13: are objectively better than others in pretty much every demonstrable
32:22
Speaker 13: empirical way possible, when it comes to stands of living,
32:24
Speaker 13: when it comes to GDP, when it comes to material wealth,
32:26
Speaker 13: when it comes to subjective indications of personal happiness. There
32:30
Speaker 13: and you know, this is the modern Republican party, reader,
32:33
Speaker 13: This is the Republican Party of the twenty twenties. It's
32:36
Speaker 13: not George W. Bush's Republican Party. Back in his second
32:38
Speaker 13: inaugural address in January two thousand and five, Bush famously
32:41
Speaker 13: spoke of the freedom Agenda and how is America's role
32:45
Speaker 13: to forcibly export its idiosyncratic version of Western liberalism to
32:49
Speaker 13: all places of the world. There he basically said that
32:51
Speaker 13: the Taliban just wants this Jeffersonian lockey and liberalism. And
32:55
Speaker 13: here's Mark Rubio twenty years later basically saying, actually, no,
32:58
Speaker 13: that's not the case. There are some cultures that don't
33:01
Speaker 13: want what we want there, and ultimately up to America
33:04
Speaker 13: to protect her interests and then to ally with like
33:06
Speaker 13: minded countries to better secure and protect their own regions.
33:10
Speaker 1: There.
33:10
Speaker 13: That's in theory where Europe comes in again. The relevant
33:13
Speaker 13: part here is in theory.
33:16
Speaker 3: Very similar tones to Jadie Vance's speech in Europe last year,
33:21
Speaker 3: and that was seen as groundbreaking by many now talking
33:24
Speaker 3: about destroying the West from within. I want to play
33:28
Speaker 3: you a clip of former President Barack Obama claiming here
33:31
Speaker 3: that it's Republicans and generally those on the right who
33:35
Speaker 3: push angry, divisive US then politics.
33:40
Speaker 10: The other side, does the mean angry Chemicgogury. You know,
33:47
Speaker 10: exclusive us them, you know, divisive politics. That's their that's
33:57
Speaker 10: that's their home court. Yeah, our court is coming together.
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Josh, what's your response to that wild projection
34:11
Speaker 3: from the former president?
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Speaker 13: You know, doesn't this guy have better things to do
34:15
Speaker 13: with his time? I mean, I mean that's actually literally
34:18
Speaker 13: my first take. You know, we all saw Hillary Clinton,
34:21
Speaker 13: they are speaking at the Munich Security Conference, and you know,
34:24
Speaker 13: I mean, whether it's her Barack Obama, I mean, don't
34:27
Speaker 13: these old Democrats do they have nothing better to do
34:30
Speaker 13: with their time? I mean, does Hillary Clinton not prefer
34:32
Speaker 13: to go shill for the Qatar sponsor Clinton Foundation? Does
34:35
Speaker 13: Barack Obama not prefer to go shill with Michelle Obama
34:38
Speaker 13: on their multimillion dollar Netflix Netflix package? I mean, why
34:42
Speaker 13: why do this?
34:43
Speaker 4: First?
34:43
Speaker 13: Well, historically speaking, it was it was the job of
34:46
Speaker 13: former presidents to basically fade into obscurity. And it's very
34:49
Speaker 13: notable that Barack Usaint Obama was the first president to
34:52
Speaker 13: not leave Washington, DC. I cannot emphasize this point to Enoughrito.
34:57
Speaker 13: There was a long tradition going back a century entry
35:00
Speaker 13: and a half, a very very long time in America
35:02
Speaker 13: where you would physically move out, because that was a
35:04
Speaker 13: symbol that you were going to remove yourself and fade
35:07
Speaker 13: out of the public eye.
35:09
Speaker 1: George W.
35:09
Speaker 13: Bush, for instance, he had many flaws at president, but
35:12
Speaker 13: to his great credit, he went totally out of the picture.
35:14
Speaker 8: There.
35:15
Speaker 13: He went bath to Dallas, Texas. He focused on painting.
35:17
Speaker 13: He was taking art classes. Can't Barack Obama just take
35:20
Speaker 13: art classes. He's just such a narcissist. I mean, he
35:24
Speaker 13: just can't avoid the public image. So that's my very
35:27
Speaker 13: first takeaway. I think the second takeaway is, dude, what
35:31
Speaker 13: are you smoking? I mean, this is the guy who, famously,
35:34
Speaker 13: on the prespice of being elected president in two thousand
35:36
Speaker 13: and eight, said that he was out there and that
35:39
Speaker 13: he was going to stick it to the bitter clingers
35:41
Speaker 13: who were bitterly clinging to their guns and their religion.
35:45
Speaker 13: Just days before he was elected over John McCain, he
35:47
Speaker 13: said that we are days away from fundamentally transforming the
35:51
Speaker 13: United States of America, and it should be self evidence
35:53
Speaker 13: that one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which
35:56
Speaker 13: he loves. And frankly, most Americans love their country. So
36:00
Speaker 13: you want to talk about divisive, Well that was pretty divisive.
36:03
Speaker 13: His whole presidency was divisive, actually the Obamacare statue, the
36:06
Speaker 13: Aron Nuclear deal. But this that there when he famously
36:09
Speaker 13: stood over a Paul Ryan, Eric Canterer said, hey, guys,
36:12
Speaker 13: I won, you lost. As his justification a passing Obamacare.
36:16
Speaker 13: So he's the last person in the world who's talking
36:19
Speaker 13: about this. There, the hutzper, frankly is through the roof.
36:22
Speaker 13: But again, as I said, this is the guy who
36:23
Speaker 13: famously refused to move out of DC because he just
36:26
Speaker 13: thinks that he is that much brighter and more special
36:30
Speaker 13: than everyone else. Guess what he's not.
36:33
Speaker 3: Well, maybe he didn't move out of DC because he
36:35
Speaker 3: had that infamous the term. Under the Biden years, there
36:39
Speaker 3: was a lot of conjecture about really who was calling
36:42
Speaker 3: the shots, because we know it wasn't Joe Biden. He
36:44
Speaker 3: was not cognitively sound throughout much of that present presidency. Now,
36:50
Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier in Lefties Losing It that CNN has
36:53
Speaker 3: lost nearly two thirds of its viewership since twenty sixteen,
36:58
Speaker 3: just an incredible decar and when compared to the same
37:02
Speaker 3: part of the year in twenty twenty one, the drops
37:06
Speaker 3: were even more pronounced Josh seventy one percent for prime
37:10
Speaker 3: time and seventy three percent during the day. This is
37:12
Speaker 3: according to the latest Nielsen ratings. How can they reverse this, Josh,
37:18
Speaker 3: or do they even have an appetite for reversing it?
37:21
Speaker 3: Because they have become an activist network, ratings and breaking
37:27
Speaker 3: news don't seem to be a huge consideration.
37:32
Speaker 13: Read Frankly, I don't know that they actually want to
37:35
Speaker 13: turn this round. I genuinely am not because, Frankly, viewers,
37:41
Speaker 13: I've been fleeing the network for years and years and years,
37:43
Speaker 13: and they've done virtually nothing to try to change course.
37:47
Speaker 13: There are precisely two people on CNN who are worth watching.
37:50
Speaker 13: One is my Salem colleague Scott Jennings, who is absolutely
37:54
Speaker 13: amazing and owns the libs there on a seemingly day in,
37:56
Speaker 13: day out basis. The other is Harry Anton, who I've
37:58
Speaker 13: known since we were eighteen years old Gonna Go way Back,
38:01
Speaker 13: who is just a very funny, well spoken, purely objective,
38:04
Speaker 13: nerdy polls guy. He's no ideology, no policy, no nothing,
38:09
Speaker 13: just pure entertainment kind down the polls. So the only
38:11
Speaker 13: two people that have any kind of core of viewership
38:14
Speaker 13: these days are onely tooken conservative to the totally non
38:17
Speaker 13: ideological nerdy polls guide there. As for all the other
38:20
Speaker 13: jokers there, Jake Tapper, wolf Blitzer got Caitlyn Collins, My
38:24
Speaker 13: god there. I mean, who's watching these people? I mean, like,
38:28
Speaker 13: who was the person who was getting up the morning
38:30
Speaker 13: and say, oh, my god, I cannot wait to see
38:32
Speaker 13: what Caitlyn Collins or Aaron Burnett says on CNN's day.
38:36
Speaker 13: I mean, that demographic to the extent that ever existed,
38:38
Speaker 13: simply does not exist anymore. And it's actually not just
38:41
Speaker 13: a cable news thing. A lot of people say, oh,
38:44
Speaker 13: people are fleeing cable news in general. Not true. Actually,
38:47
Speaker 13: Fox News currently is putting up the greatest numbers in
38:50
Speaker 13: the history of American cable news. So people are definitely
38:54
Speaker 13: not fleeing Fox News. They're fleeing CNN faster than you
38:57
Speaker 13: could say wolf Blitzer though, because they've been offered this
39:00
Speaker 13: scene barely warmed over pablum for years and years and years.
39:03
Speaker 13: And you know, there's some rumors as to whether or
39:05
Speaker 13: not the owners might seek to divest CNN there, but
39:09
Speaker 13: either way, this is not going to have a happy
39:11
Speaker 13: ending if they continue in the current route.
39:14
Speaker 3: Well, their digital traffic ause a lot of people point
39:17
Speaker 3: to online viewership because that's growing at a rapid pace.
39:23
Speaker 3: But again CNN seems to be struggling there against competitors.
39:27
Speaker 3: So it's the product, it's the content that people are rejecting.
39:32
Speaker 3: Josh Hamma, thank you so much for your time tonight.
39:35
Speaker 2: Thank you still to come.
39:37
Speaker 3: A famous TEDS sufferer is heading back to the US.
39:41
Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield has the details.
39:54
Speaker 2: Welcome back, joining me now, celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield.
39:59
Speaker 2: Kin Let's start with Rosie O'Donnell.
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Speaker 3: Who's admitted to secretly returning to the US to suss
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Speaker 3: out whether it's still safe for her after President Trump
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Speaker 3: threatened to revoke her citizenship following her move to Ireland
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Speaker 3: last year. We will remember her fleeing to Ireland. Can
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Speaker 3: see this is hilarious on so many levels.
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Speaker 2: Tell me more, I know.
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Speaker 14: I mean, multiple ice incidents and protests all over the
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Speaker 14: country and Rosie's like, let me go home, let me
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Speaker 14: see if everything's okay. It's remarkable she made a very
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Speaker 14: public move overseas framed as political fear. Now she's coming home.
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Speaker 14: That tells you everything. That reality rarely matches the rhetoric.
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Speaker 14: Celebrity political exits often generate headlines, but most of them
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Speaker 14: still maintain ties to the US because their careers, audiences,
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Speaker 14: and business interests are here. Miilee Cyrus, I'm looking at you.
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Speaker 14: It feels less like exile and more like just you know,
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Speaker 14: pr Spin just a little hissy fit.
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Speaker 3: Now talking about attention seekers and hisy fits an ex
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Speaker 3: ESPN personality. Sarah Spain has unleashed an attack on Vice
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Speaker 3: President jd Vance after sitting near him at the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 2: She said, when I see.
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Speaker 3: Jd Vance's eyeliner face, I literally feel ill.
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Speaker 2: I said, I feel like.
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Speaker 3: I just looked at a demon, like the devil, and
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Speaker 3: I don't even believe in that. I mean, this woman
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Speaker 3: needs help. She needs professional help. That's what I think
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Speaker 3: her loved ones should be organizing. But Kinsey, what triggered
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Speaker 3: this out burst? Surely can't just speak that she was
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Speaker 3: in the same vicinity as the veep.
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Speaker 14: I think, sadly it is. You're right, we're calling for
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Speaker 14: an intervention. This is just an example of that political
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Speaker 14: discourse that's personal insult instead of actual debate, not giving
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Speaker 14: that the benefit of the doubt. I mean saying you
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Speaker 14: feel physically or just sitting next to someone is performative
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Speaker 14: outrage and honestly, these kinds of comments usually backfire on
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Speaker 14: these personalities because they make the individual look emotional rather
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Speaker 14: than persuasive. Voters tend to respond better to arguments about
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Speaker 14: policy versus, in this case, a hormonal hissy fit.
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Speaker 2: And also, whatever your politics. JD.
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Speaker 3: Vans is known as one of the nicest guys, one
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Speaker 3: of the most genuine people in DC, who actually loves
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Speaker 3: his wife and has a really beautiful family. To so
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Speaker 3: look at that and see something demonic, I think you
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Speaker 3: need help, lady, you need help now. She's going to
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Speaker 3: be triggered by this next story because the Millennia documentary
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Speaker 3: continues to see huge success. It was the highest opening
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Speaker 3: documentary in a decade, and despite receiving just widespread hate
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Speaker 3: from the critics, all sorts of really terrible reviews, Kinzi,
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Speaker 3: it's doing really well at the box office.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I think the success of this documentary
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Speaker 14: shows there was always public curiosity about Milania that the
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Speaker 14: media underestimated.
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Speaker 2: Vogue, We're looking at you.
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Speaker 14: She's one of the most private modern first ladies, which
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Speaker 14: actually increases audience's fascination with her and you know, when
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Speaker 14: critics dismiss her, it tends to energize viewers who feel
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Speaker 14: like she's been misunderstood. I think the strong ratings or
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Speaker 14: reaction prove there's a huge market for her story, whether
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Speaker 14: political commentators like it or not.
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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the Royals.
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Speaker 3: Meghan Markol has shared the first ever photo of four
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Speaker 3: year old Lily Bett's face. This is the first time
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Speaker 3: we've seen her face. This was in a Valentine's Day
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Speaker 3: post on Instagram, where she wrote that husband Prince Harry
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Speaker 3: and their two children are her forever Valentine's kinsey.
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Speaker 14: That's niceah, really, color me senecal. I think that there's
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Speaker 14: reeks of hypocrisy after just days ago, we literally watched
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Speaker 14: Prince Harry have a ment be mental breakdown in front
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Speaker 14: of a group of bereaved parents who lost their children
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Speaker 14: to online bullying and social media. So Harry goes and
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Speaker 14: is crying in front of these people about how the
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Speaker 14: Internet is evil, social media is evil, and days later,
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Speaker 14: Megan slaps a picture of Lily on Instagram. I mean,
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Speaker 14: I'm sorry, but these two are not on the same page.
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Speaker 3: They're certainly not on the same page that I think
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Speaker 3: we're going to agree on now at Tourney General Pam
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Speaker 3: Bondi has finally released the Epstein Least, a collection of
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Speaker 3: three hundred politicians and prominent people who were named in
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Speaker 3: the files, telling Congress that all the documents that the
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Speaker 3: Department of Justice was required to reveal have now been
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Speaker 3: made public. Cansey, are there big names that are going
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Speaker 3: to be worried about this release?
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Speaker 14: I mean I looked. I think like we had this
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Speaker 14: conversation last week where Joe Rogan was like, look, I'm
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Speaker 14: on the list because I refuse to meet with him.
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Speaker 2: And that's what we're saying.
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Speaker 14: A lot of pushback because there are a lot of names,
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Speaker 14: Megan Markles on this list. There are a lot of
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Speaker 14: names on this list, and there are people that, in
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Speaker 14: no way, shape or form had anything to do with
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Speaker 14: Jeffrey Epstein. So I would like beg people to keep
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Speaker 14: that in mind before judging someone because their name is
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Speaker 14: on the list. Jeffrey Epstein cultivated powerful contacts everywhere from
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Speaker 14: politics to business to entertainment. The real question investigators look
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Speaker 14: for is evidence of criminal participation, not just associations. So yes,
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Speaker 14: prominent names do appear on this list, but what matters
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Speaker 14: legally is whether there's proof tied to actual offenses.
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Speaker 11: Now.
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Speaker 3: Sources told The UK Times that King Chiles did not
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Speaker 3: contribute to the twelve million dollar pound payout made by
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Speaker 3: his brother Andrew mount Batten Windsor to settle a case
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Speaker 3: brought against Seem by Virginia Jiuffrey, who accused the former
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Speaker 3: prince of having sex with her when she was just
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Speaker 3: seventeen years old, and she said she was trafficked to London.
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Speaker 2: By Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey, there's no doubt that this whole issue is having
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Speaker 3: a detrimental effect on the Royals. We saw Prince of
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Speaker 3: King Charles, I should say heckled last week. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that doesn't happen to the Royals. He was asked about
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Speaker 3: when he knew about his brother's association with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: How are they going to handle this going forward?
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Speaker 14: Well, first of all, thank you for giving me the
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Speaker 14: opportunity to respond to this story, because I found out
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Speaker 14: about the original accusation in real time and I reacted organically.
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Speaker 14: I was like, I'm horrified. I can't defend the royal
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Speaker 14: family anymore. But here we have the royal family and
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Speaker 14: King Charles specifically saying, actually, I did not contribute, and
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Speaker 14: this distinction matters in farmously for the monarchy. If the
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Speaker 14: King didn't personally find Andrew's settlement, it reinforces the Palace's
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Speaker 14: position that Andrew's legal problems are his own responsibility. The
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Speaker 14: King has spent years trying to slim down the working
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Speaker 14: monarchy and distance the institution from scandal. Financial separation is
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Speaker 14: part of protecting the Crown's credibility. And again, exile, exile, exile.
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Speaker 14: We don't want to see Andrew, we don't want to
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Speaker 14: hear from him, and it's my understanding he's currently under
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Speaker 14: investigation and potentially in trouble for sharing government secrets, so
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Speaker 14: it might not be so easy to get rid of him.
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Speaker 3: Goodness may Now, let's move on to actress and comic
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Speaker 3: Amy Schumer, who's posted a selfie of herself in front
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Speaker 3: of a crying corner banner for her first Valentine's Day
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Speaker 3: since announcing her divorce from husband Chris Fisher Kinsey. Is
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Speaker 3: this comedy or is it genuinely sad? I thought she
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Speaker 3: was having a glow up and living her best life.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, we miss her dirty carpet. What happened into all
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Speaker 14: of those those photo shoots she was taking along the carpet,
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Speaker 14: they needed a steam cleaning. I mean, divorce is obviously painful,
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Speaker 14: but Amy has always processed personal moments publicly posting something
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Speaker 14: like a crying corner fits her brand and turning drama
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Speaker 14: into content.
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Speaker 2: It just feels so cheap to me.
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Speaker 14: Celebrities today they monetize their failure and sharing messy life transformations.
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Speaker 14: I guess it strengthens audience connection. So I don't know.
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Speaker 14: I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say
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Speaker 14: she's trying to relate to her audience, But a little
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Speaker 14: piece of me feels like, you know, she's trying to
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Speaker 14: get that money, honey. She knows it'll attract a lot
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Speaker 14: of likes and clicks.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 3: It is very relatable, so I'm sure it's going to
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Speaker 3: get plenty of clicks. But what about the concerns her
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Speaker 3: friends had about some of those social media posts.
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Speaker 2: There was a series of bathing suit pictures in her
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Speaker 2: living room with that carpet you mentioned. Is that been handled?
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Speaker 2: Is she okay?
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Speaker 14: Well, she was called out for that. I think she
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Speaker 14: was embarrassed by that, and we did see her pivot,
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Speaker 14: We saw her change her content. This is going back
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Speaker 14: to flirting with her personal life a little bit more.
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Speaker 14: But we haven't seen her on any bikinis lately, and
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Speaker 14: I'd like to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for that.
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Speaker 3: Kitsy Schofield, thank you so much for your time, and
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Speaker 3: that's all the time we have tonight.
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Speaker 2: I'll see you at eleven tomorrow night. Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 2: New Tonight is up next.