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The Rita Panahi Show | 9 July · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Skyland's Australia leaves is the Rita Panahe Show. Good
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Speaker 1: evening and welcome to the Rita Panahee Show. I'm James
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Speaker 1: Borrow Fillian for Rita. But don't you worry. Rita's back
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Speaker 1: next week. Here's what's coming up tonight. The ABC is
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Speaker 1: called out for its shocking bias as the public public
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Speaker 1: broadcaster goes up to testify at the Bombairail Commission. The
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Speaker 1: panel will join me to discuss this and all the
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Speaker 1: other day's top headlines. Shortly plus, strikes resume in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East as President Trump labels Iran's government scam. Sky
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Speaker 1: News defense analyst Peter Jennings will bring me the latest
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Speaker 1: on that, as well as that Chinese missile launch and
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Speaker 1: from the US. John Heinracher, Well, we've got all the
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Speaker 1: latest from America, including that creep Graham Platner finally dropping
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Speaker 1: out of the main Senate race. And Sky News lifestyle
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Speaker 1: reporter Chloe Walker joins me in the st studio as
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Speaker 1: Prince Harry suffers a major loss in the UK High Court.
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Speaker 1: Ed yet we haven't forgotten it. Lefty's losing it is
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Speaker 1: coming up too. Why is the Attorney General of Minnesota
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Speaker 1: receiving gender affirming care. Could it be Nah, But we
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Speaker 1: will find out about that anyway. Let's move on to
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Speaker 1: my fantastic panel here tonight, Anti seventism Envoid Jillian Siegel
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Speaker 1: has lashed the ABC's claims of objectivity regarding its coverage
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Speaker 1: of the Gaza War. Now, the ABC said fifty one
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Speaker 1: percent of the complaints about their coverage suggested it was
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Speaker 1: being unduly pro Palestinian, while forty seven percent claimed the opposite.
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Speaker 1: But Jillian Siegel accused the ABC of trying to quote
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Speaker 1: mark their own homework.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing from important stakeholders of mind, how concerned they are,
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Speaker 2: how grieved they are, how they feel that their trusted
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Speaker 2: broadcaster is not being fair and accurate. I would like
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Speaker 2: the ABC to be as good as it possibly could be.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a pretty high bar to set there. But
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Speaker 1: joining me now to discuss is former Liberal MP Nicole
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Speaker 1: Flint and Sky News contributor Proue McSween.
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Speaker 3: Nicole, let's start with you on this here.
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Speaker 1: We heard some really sharking stuff today about the way
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Speaker 1: the ABC has covered the Gaza War, how it covers
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Speaker 1: issues relating to Israel, the Jewish community, including this sharking
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Speaker 1: burial of a correction that they just slipped in way
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Speaker 1: after the fact after they reported that fourteen thousand babies
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Speaker 1: could die in Gaza if they didn't get aid the
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Speaker 1: next day.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to know what more to add to a
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Speaker 4: debate that we've been having for decades now.
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Speaker 5: James, it is well and.
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Speaker 4: Truly time for the Federal Parliament to take action to
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Speaker 4: pull the ABC into line. They have the great privilege
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Speaker 4: of one point three billion dollars of taxpayers money every
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Speaker 4: single year, so we deserve to have balanced and unbiased reporting,
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Speaker 4: and as we have just seen from the Royal Commission,
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Speaker 4: that's not what we're receiving. So a couple of things,
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Speaker 4: In particular, editorial standard for of the ABC's charter specifically
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Speaker 4: says that they cannot let any one point of view
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Speaker 4: dominate over time, and yet they are. We know that
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Speaker 4: they have throughout the entire Israel Palestinian conflict. It is
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Speaker 4: not Israel that they have been supporting or giving fair
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Speaker 4: coverage too, which is why this is now the subject
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Speaker 4: of the Royal Commission discussion. It has been outrageously pro Palestinian,
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Speaker 4: and then when people do complain as you've just pointed
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Speaker 4: out the complaints get buried a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 4: because I know the Special Envoy also suggested that there
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Speaker 4: should be extra overside of the ABC, but a couple
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Speaker 4: of years ago extra oversight was implemented. So there's now
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Speaker 4: an ABC onbudsman that sits within the ABC, which is
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Speaker 4: problem in itself and is supposed to give that extra
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Speaker 4: level of scrutiny of complaints. I have complained to the ombudsmen,
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Speaker 4: and believe me, they do not do anything differently to
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Speaker 4: what previously happened when the ABC were marking their own
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Speaker 4: homework anyway, So we've spent millions more dollars to implement
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Speaker 4: a non budsman who has changed nothing, and as we're
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Speaker 4: seeing through the Royal Commission, we are still getting completely
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Speaker 4: biased reporting. Now, as I have said repeatedly, I think
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Speaker 4: the only way to fix this is first of all,
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Speaker 4: to reduce the ABC to just reporting on news and
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Speaker 4: getting rid of commentary and opinion, because that's where it
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Speaker 4: always goes horribly wrong. But their news coverage is not
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Speaker 4: that much better, so every time that they breach their
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Speaker 4: editorial standards, which demand that they are impartial and that
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Speaker 4: they don't let anyone view dominate. They should be financially penalized,
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Speaker 4: so that could be easily set up.
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Speaker 5: And also their standards.
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Speaker 4: Could be enshrined in federal legislation because at the moment
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Speaker 4: they can pick or choose whether they follow them. So
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Speaker 4: let's see proper legislation holding them to account and separately
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Speaker 4: financial penalties for every time they breach us.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a great wishless Nicole Flint, But Prue McSween,
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Speaker 1: when I look at the coverage over the past three years,
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Speaker 1: since October seventh, we all know what has happened. Treating
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Speaker 1: the Gaza Health Ministry as some sort of authentic voice
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Speaker 1: of truth, believing every horror story that the Gazans tell
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Speaker 1: while minimizing what the Israelis went through. We can go
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Speaker 1: through that whole litany. But they won't even accept an
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Speaker 1: internationally defined and accepted definition of anti Semitism. I mean
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Speaker 1: that's pretty basic.
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Speaker 6: Well, the disdain, you know, the haughtiness of this organization,
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Speaker 6: and the problem is because they've been getting away with
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Speaker 6: it for so long and accommodated. Nick, I don't agree
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Speaker 6: with you. I think they need to be the cut.
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Speaker 6: Funding should be totally cut. If anyone wants the ABC
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Speaker 6: resurrected on subscription, and that's the only way because I
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Speaker 6: cannot see how this ingrained cancer.
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Speaker 5: Within this organization.
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Speaker 6: The animals run the zoo there, that it's a powerful union,
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Speaker 6: and you know, I just feel that's the only way
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Speaker 6: we're going to solve this problem.
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Speaker 3: Well that's right.
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Speaker 1: You know, you talk to anybody who has been involved
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Speaker 1: with the ABC board, ABC management and they will all
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Speaker 1: tell you that the inmates really do run the asylum
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Speaker 1: there and that it's impossible to change. It's a completely
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Speaker 1: captured organization. But other news too. Let's move on to
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Speaker 1: this year because this is a pretty interesting I thought
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Speaker 1: Opition leader Angus and August Taylor, he was at the
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Speaker 1: Sydneyist to today and he claimed Labour's big government agenda
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Speaker 1: is dragging down living standards. Well, yes, he's right at
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Speaker 1: hammering real wages. After the International Monetary Fund downgraded its
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Speaker 1: outlook for Australia's economic growth this year, and the Reserve
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Speaker 1: Banks chief economist has warned that the nation might need
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Speaker 1: a period.
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Speaker 3: Of oh this is this something to look forward to?
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Speaker 1: High unemployment to tame high inflation. Nicole Flint, we know
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Speaker 1: that every dollar that the government spends crowds out a
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Speaker 1: dollar of the private sector. We also know from the
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Speaker 1: work of economists like Warren Hogan that there's a speed
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Speaker 1: limit right now because of productivity of two percent growth
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Speaker 1: on the economy. Angus Taylor is right, But is he
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Speaker 1: prosecuting the case?
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Speaker 3: Well, look, I.
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Speaker 4: Think he is, and James's doing it in certainly difficult
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Speaker 4: circumstances with a very hostile media. But I think what
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Speaker 4: we should be most concerned about right now is the
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Speaker 4: comments by the Reserve Banks chief economists saying we need
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Speaker 4: higher unemployment to get this inflation problem under control. No,
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Speaker 4: what we need is to say the federal labor government
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Speaker 4: cut their spending, because it's not just the spending that's
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Speaker 4: crowding out the private sector. It's just the out of
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Speaker 4: control programs across the board and the huge rise in
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Speaker 4: the number of public sector employees, and the fact that
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Speaker 4: labor are doing absolutely nothing to cut spending. So the
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Speaker 4: only thing I would say I guess for Jim Chalmers
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Speaker 4: is he's certainly following in the footsteps of his hero
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Speaker 4: Paul Keating, on whom he wrote his PhDa, not on
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Speaker 4: the economy. So that's you know, as we know why
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Speaker 4: we have so many problems with the treasurer who is
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Speaker 4: not actually an economist or had any real economic training.
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Speaker 5: Thomas.
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Speaker 4: But this is this is starting to feel like, you know,
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Speaker 4: the late eighties, nineteen nineties all over again. And believe me,
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Speaker 4: I and many other Australians of my age, I'm about.
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Speaker 5: Term forty eight.
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Speaker 4: Remember very clearly the trauma that our parents went through
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Speaker 4: a small business owners because of record high interest rates,
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Speaker 4: high unemployment, inflation, all of it. And you know, as farmers,
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Speaker 4: it was particularly bad because labor came in and made
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Speaker 4: some really severe and traumatic reform come to the wool industry,
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Speaker 4: for example, without with absolutely you know, industry assistance. So
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Speaker 4: everything went horribly wrong at the same time thanks to labor.
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Speaker 5: That's what we're saying again.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we could move on to power
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Speaker 4: and renewables and things like that. They are stuffing everything
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Speaker 4: up that they touched.
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Speaker 1: Well, Nicole, I want to correct you on one point.
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Speaker 1: I think you meant to say that you're about to
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Speaker 1: turn thirty eight, right, very kind, very kind, prof Exween Though.
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Speaker 1: One of the other things Angus Taylor has talked about
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Speaker 1: in his speech was he talked about his party's vision
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Speaker 1: of returning to a culture of self determination, enterprise, aspiration
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Speaker 1: and reward for effort. I have a real concern that
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Speaker 1: what this government has been doing for the last four
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Speaker 1: years or five years now has been to rewire the
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Speaker 1: Australian culture in such way that the aspiration that was
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Speaker 1: such so flowing through the country's veins. You know, twenty
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Speaker 1: five years ago when I came here, it's almost become
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Speaker 1: a dirty word again. And now we're becoming a tall,
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Speaker 1: poppy society again. And that's what Alban Easy is relying
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Speaker 1: on to create a society of dependence.
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Speaker 5: One hundred percent, you know.
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Speaker 6: And the problem is when he was first selected he
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Speaker 6: said we are going to change his country. He's changed it.
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Speaker 6: He has become formed a socialist government well and truly,
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Speaker 6: and he's ingraining all of this negativity. Why would anyone
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Speaker 6: It's like, kick a person when they're down. Why would
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Speaker 6: you have any aspiration anymore? Why would anyone want to
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Speaker 6: start a business. I know, I'm so grateful I've stopped
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Speaker 6: my business. I've stopped paying bass, stop paying payroll ToxT
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Speaker 6: tax because why would I It's just so demotivating. And
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Speaker 6: you know, you have this terrible situation. Where are we
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Speaker 6: going to have to learn a lesson when it comes
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Speaker 6: time to vote on this government?
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Speaker 5: Are we all going to be so down, so downtrodden?
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Speaker 6: Is it irrevocable what they've done to this country to
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Speaker 6: ruin it that we will never recover.
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Speaker 5: Well, this is the thing that's worrying me.
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Speaker 1: Well, as I keep saying, you know, I've said it
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Speaker 1: on this program, I've said it in the Daily Telegraph.
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Speaker 1: Migrant big concern is we're going to turn into Argentina
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Speaker 1: a resource rich, productive, wealthy nation. You know that one
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Speaker 1: hundred years ago was one of the richest nations on
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Speaker 1: the planet and became a disaster because of precisely this
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Speaker 1: kind of economic mismanagement, speaking of other things, so that
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Speaker 1: we're mismanaged. Telster's mobile network now, I'm sure many of
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Speaker 1: you out there, like myself, was hit by that widespread
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Speaker 1: outage yesterday with many thousands, probably like millions, unable to
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Speaker 1: make calls or use molobile data. But now Telster hasn't
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Speaker 1: identified a secondary issue affecting triple O calls, with some
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Speaker 1: customers getting an error message when trying to call emergency services.
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Speaker 1: Exactly what you want to hear Communications Mister Anaka Wells
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Speaker 1: called out the telco for waiting hours to notify the
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Speaker 1: government about the outage. Nicole Flint, we've spoken about this
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Speaker 1: off air before, about you know, as you were talking
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Speaker 1: about before. You come from a farming family, regional South Australia.
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Speaker 1: This is a big issue.
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Speaker 4: It's a huge issue on two fronts. But let's deal
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Speaker 4: with the Triple O issue first. I'm calling out the
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Speaker 4: federal Labor government who have known about this problem since
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, which is when the first catastrophic optus
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Speaker 4: outage occurred, which has been repeated since they ordered a review.
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Speaker 5: The review was.
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Speaker 4: Delivered in April twenty twenty four to the former Communications minister.
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Speaker 4: She then said, yeah, will introduce reforms. Now those reforms
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Speaker 4: have still not been implemented, so they've set up another
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Speaker 4: sort of task force or something that's supposed to implement
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Speaker 4: the reforms by twenty twenty seven, so sometimes sort of
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Speaker 4: early next year.
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Speaker 3: Not good enough.
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Speaker 5: Clearly our telcos are.
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Speaker 4: Getting it absolutely wrong, which is completely unacceptable in itself.
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Speaker 4: But what on earth is this Labor government doing to
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Speaker 4: hold them to account so people do not lose their
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Speaker 4: lives because there are hundreds of calls, Triple O calls
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Speaker 4: that went unanswered yesterday or couldn't get through. Labor have
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Speaker 4: none about this since twenty twenty three. This is completely unacceptable.
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Speaker 4: This is the sort of thing we should be having
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Speaker 4: a Royal commission into because they have none about the
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Speaker 4: problem and they haven't fixed it.
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Speaker 1: But Prue, it does feel like we keep having these outages.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's Telstra today, another time it's after. I
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Speaker 1: feel like our infrastructure here isn't up to snuff.
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Speaker 5: It's totally decaying.
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Speaker 6: And it's either because unions have been imposing such imposts
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Speaker 6: on business, you know. Gina ryan Hart suggested to Musk
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Speaker 6: that he buy an island off Australia one of the
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Speaker 6: Wit Sundays and put Starlink in there, and I think
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Speaker 6: Waco everybody would support that because they're not up to it.
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Speaker 6: The people running these enterprises and I use that term loosely,
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Speaker 6: are not providing the service.
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Speaker 5: We are a big land, and I mean.
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Speaker 6: In suburban Sydney you cannot always get reliable service.
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Speaker 5: It's unbelievable in this country.
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Speaker 6: How the hell are we supposed to be in as
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Speaker 6: country with the kind of I don't know ridiculous enterprises
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Speaker 6: running this country and being sort of, I don't know,
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Speaker 6: catastrophized by bureaucracy and all the rules and regulations that
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Speaker 6: are occurring.
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Speaker 1: It's a terrible situation. Proven Sween, it is the road
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Speaker 1: to ruin. If we are not proven, Sween, the coleflict,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to live there. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for your time. US President Donald Trump has declared that
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Speaker 1: a ceasefire with Iran is over, as the Pentagon began
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Speaker 1: another round of strikes against the Middle Eastern nation. Trump
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Speaker 1: called the country's leadership scum at the NATO sumbonin Turkey,
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Speaker 1: which is a bit of a change from his earlier tone.
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Speaker 1: When they ink that so called memorandum of understanding suspending
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Speaker 1: hostilities have a listen to me.
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Speaker 7: I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them,
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Speaker 7: and with there's scum. You know what scum is. There's scum.
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Speaker 7: There's sick people. They're led by sick people, and they're vicious,
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Speaker 7: violent people, and if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd
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Speaker 7: use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.
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Speaker 1: Well, so it must have been saying that for a while,
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Speaker 1: mister president. But joining me now to discuss this is
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Speaker 1: Sky News Defense analyst Peter Jennings. Peter, welcome to the program.
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Speaker 1: Great to have you here to walk us through some
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Speaker 1: of this here. Can you tell us what is behind
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Speaker 1: Trump's change of heart apparent change of heart? Is he
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Speaker 1: just waking up to this reality or did he know
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Speaker 1: all along and ink the MoU to buy time, reroute
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Speaker 1: oil supplies, and otherwise be prepared for what was going
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Speaker 1: to be an inevitable resumption of hostilities.
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Speaker 8: So, James, I think the Iranians have made better use
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Speaker 8: of time than Trump. And the reason for that is
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Speaker 8: I've read recent reports saying that they've now been able
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Speaker 8: to reconstitute about half of their missile launch capability. They've
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Speaker 8: clearly been strengthening or restrengthening their ability to control the
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Speaker 8: straight offor moves resident. The problem that President Trump has
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Speaker 8: is that his forces are operating at great distance from
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Speaker 8: their main bases, and you can only keep those carriers
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Speaker 8: on high alert for so long. So the window is closing,
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Speaker 8: I think on the capacity of the Americans to remount
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Speaker 8: major military activity of the type we saw in March
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Speaker 8: of this year. Sure, they can do things like hit
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Speaker 8: targets around the straight uformers as they did on Tuesday,
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Speaker 8: and I think again overnight. But their ability to go
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Speaker 8: back into a sort of full on conflict is going
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Speaker 8: to require more forces to come from the United States,
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Speaker 8: more reinforcement, more missiles being brought out in pre placed.
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Speaker 8: That's going to be hard, and it's something that I
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Speaker 8: think the President doesn't want to do. So what I
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Speaker 8: think we saw in Anchor was his sort of just
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Speaker 8: sense of frustration that the Iranians are not giving him
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Speaker 8: what he wants and he's losing patients.
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Speaker 1: Well, this does create a huge problem for him because
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Speaker 1: of course if he wires up ultimately with Iran having
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Speaker 1: effective control over that Strait of Horror moves, that's starting
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Speaker 1: or that's winding up in a worse position than we
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Speaker 1: started this hall caper.
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Speaker 8: In absolutely, and I think that's just intolerable from the
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Speaker 8: perspective of the Gulf countries, the Saudiast, it should be
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Speaker 8: intolerable from the perspective of the Europeans in Japan. Those
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Speaker 8: are the countries which receive much of the oil that
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Speaker 8: comes through the Strait of hor Moos, so it can't
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Speaker 8: be left alone. And yet it seems very clear to
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Speaker 8: me that the Iranians have now decided that this is
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Speaker 8: their objective, that they are prepared to actually go back
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Speaker 8: into a deeper fight with the Americans in order to
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Speaker 8: keep that control over the strait. So the President's finding
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Speaker 8: himself in a very difficult situation and hence his annoyance
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Speaker 8: which is.
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Speaker 3: Sort of sharing with all of us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a fairly straight Queen's developer style of
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Speaker 1: frustration there. And I think that we heard there letting
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Speaker 1: himself be himself there, Peter. But just in terms of
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Speaker 1: the Iranians how far they want to go, I was
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Speaker 1: very intrigued by the switch from the new Air Force
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Speaker 1: one to the old Air Force one when they flew
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Speaker 1: out of Turkey from the NATO summit here listen to
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Speaker 1: yous reporters were told They were also told that they
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Speaker 1: were supposed to close their window shades on the flight.
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Speaker 9: What was that security concern that caused us to change planes?
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Speaker 9: We sent this one in so that the Air Force
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Speaker 9: base here was in the.
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Speaker 3: Same exact line. So did you see the picture?
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Speaker 10: Did do you think there wasn't a security concern?
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Speaker 11: Do you know why they had us close our window
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Speaker 11: lines that was now usually well, yeah, because.
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Speaker 7: You're probably on a dangerous light, because if this leaves.
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Speaker 12: Bags that we have to deal with it now.
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Speaker 1: Presumably, Peter, the old Air Force one has better countermeasures
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Speaker 1: on it than the new the new plane, the new
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Speaker 1: ride from Qatar. But it's a suggested that I ran
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Speaker 1: me have siously been threatening the president in the air
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Speaker 1: and if so, that would be a massive, massive escalation
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Speaker 1: on their part, wouldn't it.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's no secret that the Iranians want to kill Trump.
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Speaker 8: You know, They've been chanting that in the streets of
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Speaker 8: to run for days now, and I think if they
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Speaker 8: had an opportunity, they would certainly do it. I mean,
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Speaker 8: I'm speculating on this point, James, but I just wonder
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Speaker 8: if Trump's reference about scum was because he'd had some
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Speaker 8: intelligence put under his nose which said there's going to
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Speaker 8: be a serious attempt to try and kill you. You know,
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Speaker 8: that could well be a possibility. And moving to the
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Speaker 8: earlier Air Force one, it doesn't have gold tabs, but
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Speaker 8: what it does have is electronic countermeasures to stop missiles
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Speaker 8: being successfully detonating near the aircraft. So you know, I
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Speaker 8: think there must have been a serious concern and it
19:55
Speaker 8: must have been relatively breaking news, because why would he
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Speaker 8: have flown in to Turkey in a less well protected
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Speaker 8: New Air Force one if that threat was understood at
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Speaker 8: the time. So I reckon this was some recent intelligence
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Speaker 8: and that led to the precautions that the President took
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Speaker 8: on his flight out of the country.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating of scary stuff, Peter. I can't let you go though,
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Speaker 1: without asking about this test that China launched of that ICBM,
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Speaker 1: that submarine based ICBM into the South Pacific earlier this week.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the message China was
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Speaker 1: trying to send there? My presumption is there had different
20:37
Speaker 1: levels of messaging here and what were they trying to
20:39
Speaker 1: tell the United States as well as what they might
20:42
Speaker 1: have been trying to tell Australia and perhaps some of
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Speaker 1: our Pacific friends who've been signing security packs with us.
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Speaker 8: Well, I guess the message to all is tremble and obey.
20:53
Speaker 8: China is wanting to demonstrate that it has growing military power.
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Speaker 8: Probably its top priority in all of its military developments
21:02
Speaker 8: has been to expand and to modernize its nuclear weapons arsenal.
21:07
Speaker 8: There was a test in September of twenty four of
21:10
Speaker 8: a land based intercontinental ballistic missile fired from Hainan Island
21:15
Speaker 8: in the top end of the South China Sea into
21:17
Speaker 8: the Pacific. Now we've had a submarine launched missile. The
21:22
Speaker 8: Chinese said it's routine, but actually it's not. It's a
21:25
Speaker 8: very rare event for a nuclear submarine to launch a
21:28
Speaker 8: missile like this. So they're really saying, you know, we
21:31
Speaker 8: have a growing powerful nuclear weapons capability. It can reach
21:36
Speaker 8: any part of the continental United States. By extension, it
21:41
Speaker 8: could reach any part of Australia for that matter. And
21:44
Speaker 8: I think the message to the South Pacific is we
21:47
Speaker 8: really don't care about you. We'll test in your waters,
21:52
Speaker 8: regardless of your nuclear free zone treaty. I actually think
21:55
Speaker 8: it's been damaging for China in the South Pacific because
21:58
Speaker 8: it seems to have energized a bit of Pacific focus
22:01
Speaker 8: on saying, well, we don't support it and we don't
22:03
Speaker 8: like what China is doing, and that's working quite well
22:06
Speaker 8: to Australia's agenda to want to build closest strategic relations
22:10
Speaker 8: with Pacific island countries. So politically it was a miscalculation,
22:14
Speaker 8: but the highest Chinese priority is getting its weapons modernized
22:17
Speaker 8: and showing the world that they work. That's really what
22:20
Speaker 8: that test was all.
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Speaker 1: About interesting times, Peter Jennings, interesting times. Thank you so
22:25
Speaker 1: much as always for chatting. Always great to have your
22:28
Speaker 1: insights into these matters. Thank you so much. Thanks James,
22:31
Speaker 1: still to come, a LEFTI is losing it, plus all
22:34
Speaker 1: the latest from the US, including Graham Plattner dropping out
22:37
Speaker 1: of the Senate race. John Heinderecher joins me next, and
22:51
Speaker 1: now it's time for lefties losing it And gosh, I
22:54
Speaker 1: don't know this next clip. I'm not really sure what
22:58
Speaker 1: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is on about here or
23:02
Speaker 1: trying to tell us, But well, if I'm picking up
23:05
Speaker 1: what he's putting down, it sounds like he's talking about
23:09
Speaker 1: being a lefty really losing it.
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Speaker 13: Since gender heterosexual people like myself use gender affirming care
23:18
Speaker 13: every day and all the time, and you know what
23:22
Speaker 13: people say about it, not a damn thing.
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Speaker 14: It's fine, no problem. Do you do what you need
23:30
Speaker 14: to do. But then when a transgender person says, well,
23:35
Speaker 14: you know that thing y'all use all the time, you
23:37
Speaker 14: heterosexual sis gender people.
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Speaker 9: I'd like a little bit of that too.
23:42
Speaker 14: Given that we have equal protection under the law in
23:45
Speaker 14: our country, how about some of that gender affirming care.
23:49
Speaker 14: They're like, not you, not you?
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Speaker 1: Sorry? What exactly is he talking about here? Gender affirming care?
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Speaker 1: Isn't that for trans people to help transition?
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Speaker 3: Keith.
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Speaker 1: All I'm going to say here is be very careful
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Speaker 1: what forms you signed the next time you go to
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Speaker 1: the doctor.
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Speaker 3: That's all. Anyway.
24:11
Speaker 1: Speaking of doctors, meet the latest Communist candidate for the
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Speaker 1: US Senate out of Michigan, Abdul Rahman L say Ed,
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Speaker 1: who calls himself a doctor despite apparently not having a
24:23
Speaker 1: practicing certificate.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, details details.
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Speaker 15: You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician,
24:31
Speaker 15: not just a doctor, even though you don't have a
24:34
Speaker 15: valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which
24:37
Speaker 15: apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician.
24:40
Speaker 15: Do you wish you'd just stuck to calling yourself a doctor,
24:43
Speaker 15: which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and
24:46
Speaker 15: attacks on your physicians.
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Speaker 16: You know, at the end of the day, it is
24:48
Speaker 16: not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor.
24:50
Speaker 16: The question is can you see doctor? It's not about
24:52
Speaker 16: my education. It's about whether not you kid gets a
24:54
Speaker 16: good education. So a good time.
24:57
Speaker 15: But people would say, it's also about did you tell
24:59
Speaker 15: the truth?
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Speaker 16: Well, I would say that I was the health director
25:02
Speaker 16: for the City Detroit, and I've done more to provide
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Speaker 16: more people health care or eliminate their medical debt than
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Speaker 16: most doctors have done in their practice career.
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Speaker 1: No, yes, is there a physician in the house. But
25:11
Speaker 1: you know, if you think that's confusing, check this out.
25:14
Speaker 1: It's rebel news as Avi Yemeny and he's found himself
25:17
Speaker 1: at a rally for Gays for Gaza.
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Speaker 9: How many gay pride parades have there been in Gaza?
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Speaker 17: Well, I mean, how many people have been killed in Gaza.
25:27
Speaker 17: They can't do pride parades at the moment because the
25:29
Speaker 17: whole place is decimated.
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Speaker 9: For twenty twenty three, How many gay pride parades have
25:33
Speaker 9: there been?
25:33
Speaker 11: How many trans people.
25:35
Speaker 9: Have lived to tell their story in Gaza before twenty times?
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Speaker 17: We can't say that because the IDF for now one
25:41
Speaker 17: hundred years have been completely decimating it.
25:45
Speaker 5: And you can hundred years what you did that start that.
25:47
Speaker 17: Started when they started settlement as Israel into Palestine.
25:52
Speaker 1: I'm just going to put it out there. If Gays
25:54
Speaker 1: for Gaza ever decides or manages to open up a
25:57
Speaker 1: branch of their own in GA. It's going to bring
26:01
Speaker 1: a whole new meaning to the phrase launch party.
26:04
Speaker 3: Anyway.
26:05
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, over in New in media Land, Donald Trump has
26:09
Speaker 1: been engaging in a bit of media criticism, having a
26:12
Speaker 1: crack at this reporter who has the misfortune to work
26:16
Speaker 1: for ms now, the successor to the not lamented MSNBC.
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Speaker 3: Have a look.
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Speaker 9: Go ahead, read today in selecta with ms now.
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Speaker 7: You said today that county you're with?
26:29
Speaker 14: Who ms now?
26:31
Speaker 3: Ms now?
26:32
Speaker 9: It's a failing network? Why would you want to work
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Speaker 9: for them?
26:35
Speaker 3: Ms now?
26:36
Speaker 7: Can you imagine they wanted to get away? They took
26:38
Speaker 7: the NBC bekers who were embarrassed by it.
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Speaker 11: Go ahead, let's go when you hear this question right?
26:43
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, can you imagine going to journalism school
26:46
Speaker 1: and going to all that debt to work for ms now?
26:50
Speaker 3: Honestly, her poor parents.
26:53
Speaker 1: But Trump is not the only Republican having a hit.
26:56
Speaker 1: This next video isn't of a lefty losing it, but
26:59
Speaker 1: I bet it will make a lot of lefties lose
27:02
Speaker 1: it when they see it. Check out the new campaign
27:05
Speaker 1: and Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor of Tennessee,
27:09
Speaker 1: just dropped I suspect it's going to give all the
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Speaker 1: annoy all the right people.
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Speaker 18: How hard am I gonna crack down on China? Well,
27:18
Speaker 18: here's a clue.
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Speaker 11: Marcia Blackbird worked with President Trump to take on communist China.
27:24
Speaker 11: As Governor, Marshall will fight to protect Tennessee Land from
27:28
Speaker 11: Chinese front companies, closed loopholes, and hunt down every communist
27:33
Speaker 11: who tries to defy us.
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Speaker 18: It doesn't take a fortune cookie to figure it out.
27:37
Speaker 18: Here in Tennessee, We're going to stop communist China and
27:42
Speaker 18: protect Tennessee Land.
27:45
Speaker 1: Wow, that's an add Meanwhile, the fourth of July was
27:49
Speaker 1: just last weekend, and yet Democrats are still having a
27:52
Speaker 1: sook about it.
27:53
Speaker 19: I mean, here we are five days after Independence Day
27:55
Speaker 19: where we celebrated the country, and MAGA wants to celebrate
27:58
Speaker 19: one part of the country of it, and God bless them.
28:02
Speaker 19: I mean, it is a great country militarily, economically the
28:04
Speaker 19: ideals that were founded in seventeen seventy six. But the
28:06
Speaker 19: other half is that.
28:08
Speaker 3: And our founders knew this. Our founders knew that.
28:10
Speaker 19: We were a deeply imperfect country, right, oh yes, always
28:13
Speaker 19: with a deeply imperfect gifts.
28:15
Speaker 1: But these people, they must be a lot of fun
28:17
Speaker 1: at parties. But that's not the half of it. As
28:20
Speaker 1: I've been telling you, despite their best efforts to say otherwise,
28:23
Speaker 1: that Democrats are indeed being taken over by communists who
28:27
Speaker 1: call themselves the Democrats Socialists of America. And if you
28:32
Speaker 1: listen to what they're saying, they actually really do want
28:36
Speaker 1: to bring down America and the West.
28:38
Speaker 9: You know, we have a unique responsibility to act from
28:41
Speaker 9: the heart of empire, the belly of the beast. That
28:43
Speaker 9: the most important thing that we can do is take
28:45
Speaker 9: that entire down from within.
28:47
Speaker 3: Rule ultimately is to facilitate our own empire's failure in
28:52
Speaker 3: ways that we can ultimately to overthrow our own empire.
28:56
Speaker 9: US imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away.
28:58
Speaker 9: It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle. To build
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Speaker 9: a mass movement that can use the leverage of workers
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Speaker 9: to hit the kill switch on American imperialism here within
29:10
Speaker 9: the American empire.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they look terrifying, but as the saying goes, when
29:15
Speaker 1: people tell you who they are, believe them, and he's gone.
29:20
Speaker 1: Graham Plattner, the main Senate candidate, has dropped out of
29:24
Speaker 1: the race after days actually weeks of pressure. He made
29:28
Speaker 1: the announcement in a video message that he posted to
29:31
Speaker 1: X Here's a little bit of it.
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Speaker 12: There's money off.
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Speaker 17: You know.
29:34
Speaker 12: Over the past couple of days, I have faced some
29:37
Speaker 12: very serious allegations, and I just want to make it
29:39
Speaker 12: clear this is all false. The things that have been
29:43
Speaker 12: claimed did not happen. It's not real.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 12: It has placed an immense amount of weight on me
29:55
Speaker 12: as I think about what needs to happen. I just
30:01
Speaker 12: want you to think about what you would do as
30:04
Speaker 12: a regular person in a position where a much larger world,
30:12
Speaker 12: large forces we're working against you personally to accuse you
30:19
Speaker 12: of the worst thing that a person could do and
30:23
Speaker 12: it was not remotely true.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, let's bring in the Center for the American
30:30
Speaker 1: Experiment president and co founder of the popular power Line blog,
30:34
Speaker 1: John Heindracher to tell us more about this. John, what
30:37
Speaker 1: he's referring to. There are allegations of rape, which are
30:41
Speaker 1: the latest in a series of really serious and bizarre
30:46
Speaker 1: accusations around his behavior, including a Nazi tattoo on his chest,
30:51
Speaker 1: allegations of war crimes, allegations of racism, allegations of abusing
30:55
Speaker 1: other girlfriends. John How did it take so long for
30:59
Speaker 1: the Democrats to finally be rid of this person in Maine.
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Speaker 9: That's a great question, James. I mean, we knew from
31:06
Speaker 9: the beginning that he was a self described communist with
31:09
Speaker 9: a Nazi tattoo. In the old days, that would have
31:12
Speaker 9: been enough to do it with Graham Platner. It took
31:14
Speaker 9: this whole series of allegations. Apparently there's a welfare fraud
31:19
Speaker 9: claim waiting in the wings, and finally the Democratic Party
31:23
Speaker 9: has abandoned Graham Platner. And I guess the rest of
31:27
Speaker 9: us are all saying, you know, what took so long?
31:29
Speaker 1: Well, John, But here's the thing that's really curious to me.
31:32
Speaker 1: The Democrats, you know, the Democracy Party as they like
31:36
Speaker 1: to call themselves. They voted for this guy to be
31:39
Speaker 1: their nominee, and at the time of the primary race,
31:44
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of this stuff was already out there.
31:47
Speaker 1: They knew that this guy had a lot of issues.
31:50
Speaker 1: And now it feels like, you know, official Democrat Party
31:54
Speaker 1: people are saying, oh no, no, well we're now actually not
31:56
Speaker 1: about democracy because it's actually gotten too hot for us.
31:59
Speaker 1: But the message it says is, look, if he was
32:02
Speaker 1: an electable guy with the Nazi tattoo, we would have
32:04
Speaker 1: stuck with him.
32:06
Speaker 9: I think the Nazi tattoo helped him make it popular.
32:09
Speaker 9: I think it made him stronger in the primary. I
32:11
Speaker 9: think the main reason that the mainstream Democrats changed their
32:16
Speaker 9: minds about Platner is that he was sinking in the polls.
32:20
Speaker 9: And so this last allegation of rape, which was made
32:24
Speaker 9: by a fellow Democrat. By the way, the prior one
32:26
Speaker 9: was made by a Republican, and so a lot of
32:29
Speaker 9: the Democrats dismissed it. This one apparently was too much
32:33
Speaker 9: and you know, put him over the top.
32:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, John, It was a shocking allegation made
32:39
Speaker 1: by the woman who he was involved in kind of
32:42
Speaker 1: an on again, off again sort of relationship with. But
32:45
Speaker 1: it came out in politico dot com, and I was
32:47
Speaker 1: struck by part of the coverage in which she said
32:51
Speaker 1: to Politico she said that she had delayed and wrestled
32:55
Speaker 1: with reporting the alleged crime because she agreed with his politics.
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Speaker 3: And it seems.
33:03
Speaker 1: To me like the message that this is sending, you know,
33:05
Speaker 1: from the Believe All Women Party and the party you
33:09
Speaker 1: know that you know, puts itself up as a defender
33:12
Speaker 1: of women it's really that almost that like sex criminals
33:16
Speaker 1: are are almost excused if they've got the right uh,
33:19
Speaker 1: if they've got the right opinions. It's morally bizarre to me, James.
33:24
Speaker 9: Is unbelievable. If the victim is willing to let by
33:27
Speaker 9: gods be by gones, why shouldn't the Democratic Party of voters.
33:31
Speaker 9: It's amazing the things that these people are willing to
33:34
Speaker 9: forgive for political reasons.
33:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, John, it's it's crazy because the
33:38
Speaker 1: because the senator that they are trying to unseat, the Republican,
33:43
Speaker 1: Susan Collins, she is as as moderate as you can get.
33:48
Speaker 1: I mean, she's almost essentially a Democrat in a lot
33:51
Speaker 1: of ways. Mains a very working class state. Did they
33:54
Speaker 1: make a mistake here in trying the Democrats to I
33:57
Speaker 1: guess you know. Look, it's been said that Trump was
34:01
Speaker 1: a poor person's idea of what a rich person is.
34:03
Speaker 1: Did they kind of come up with a rich person's
34:06
Speaker 1: idea of what a poor person is here and come
34:08
Speaker 1: to terrible grief?
34:10
Speaker 9: James. One of the things going on here is that
34:12
Speaker 9: there's a real gender gap in America. The Democrats have
34:15
Speaker 9: a terrible time getting men to vote for them, so
34:19
Speaker 9: they keep looking for men that they think they can
34:22
Speaker 9: portray as masculine. We saw Tim Wallas in the twenty
34:25
Speaker 9: twenty four race, or what a joke that turned into.
34:29
Speaker 9: And I think that this guy, Graham Platner is a
34:31
Speaker 9: horrible person. He was kind of the democrats stereotype of
34:36
Speaker 9: what a real man is. And it's absurd. But we've
34:40
Speaker 9: got a party here where you've got Pete Buddha Judge
34:43
Speaker 9: on one side and then you've got Graham Plattner. The
34:46
Speaker 9: Democrats don't seem to have any normal men in their party.
34:50
Speaker 1: Well, you keep telling normal men that you're a bunch
34:54
Speaker 1: of Nazis and rapists, and then are you surprised when
34:57
Speaker 1: actually the only man you can get turns out to
34:59
Speaker 1: be a naza He had an alleged rapist. I mean, seriously,
35:02
Speaker 1: it's just wild. So who have they got John to
35:07
Speaker 1: tee up to have a candidate to be the replacement
35:11
Speaker 1: for Platner. I think they've gotten until the thirteenth to
35:14
Speaker 1: file officially to get a Democrat name on the ballot?
35:19
Speaker 1: Are they going with somebody more normal? I guess that
35:21
Speaker 1: wouldn't be hard.
35:23
Speaker 9: Well, it'll be interesting to see James because there's a
35:27
Speaker 9: guy named Troy Jackson. Troy Jackson lost to Graham Platner
35:32
Speaker 9: in the primary. He too is a socialist, he's a Platiner. Ally,
35:38
Speaker 9: Plattner said he wouldn't drop out unless he got to
35:42
Speaker 9: name his successor. Well, of course the Democrat said, no way,
35:46
Speaker 9: you can't do that. But just yesterday Troy Jackson filed
35:50
Speaker 9: to run for the Senate. And if we now find
35:53
Speaker 9: out that the Democrats select Jackson, another socialist, as their nominee,
35:58
Speaker 9: I think a lot of people are going to include
36:00
Speaker 9: that they knuck called under and that Graham Platner indeed
36:04
Speaker 9: got to choose his successor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
36:07
Speaker 1: Look, it's absolutely fascinating here, and I mean we're talking
36:10
Speaker 1: about it an ally of Platner. I mean, he'd almost
36:12
Speaker 1: think'd be more of an Axis thing than an Allies thing.
36:15
Speaker 1: A bad joke there, but you know, when you look
36:20
Speaker 1: at this, then this Senate seat here looks like they
36:24
Speaker 1: were trying to get this one in main they're possibly
36:27
Speaker 1: not going to get it. Now what is this meaning now?
36:29
Speaker 1: More broadly for the mid terms. I think you've written
36:32
Speaker 1: about some latest numbers out of Rasmussen polls which suggests
36:36
Speaker 1: that actually the advantage is shifting more broadly to the Republicans. Now,
36:41
Speaker 1: the Republicans shouldn't do well. It's an interim midterm election,
36:47
Speaker 1: it's not a presidential one. There's always a blowback. Trump's
36:50
Speaker 1: unpopular for a lot of reasons at the moment, and
36:52
Speaker 1: yet the Republicans are looking okay.
36:54
Speaker 9: More broadly, Well, we'll see about that, James. You know,
36:58
Speaker 9: we've got the resumption of hostilities in Iran. That means
37:01
Speaker 9: the price of gasolinea the pump is going to go
37:03
Speaker 9: back up instead of coming down as it has been.
37:07
Speaker 9: I think that, you know, historically, the out party, the
37:10
Speaker 9: party that doesn't have the White House, almost always does
37:13
Speaker 9: well in the midterms. It's just a question of how well.
37:17
Speaker 9: I think the Democrats are going to do well enough,
37:19
Speaker 9: I'll put it that way. I don't think it's going
37:21
Speaker 9: to be a huge year for them. I think they
37:23
Speaker 9: will take control of the House of Representatives. I think
37:26
Speaker 9: they probably won't take control of the Senate, but they
37:31
Speaker 9: thought they might.
37:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:33
Speaker 1: Look, I mean I've always been a great believer that
37:35
Speaker 1: divided government is the best government in the federal system.
37:37
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll see how that plays out. But
37:39
Speaker 1: we are seeing more and more about some of these
37:41
Speaker 1: other radical socialists on the Democrat side. The Chevalier woman
37:46
Speaker 1: who has won the congressional Democrat primary in New York,
37:50
Speaker 1: which all but assures her of a seat and being
37:53
Speaker 1: seated in the Congress. Well, the latest post to come
37:56
Speaker 1: out from her apparently is that border enforcement is rooted
38:00
Speaker 1: in racism and Islamophobia.
38:04
Speaker 9: Really, you know, James, the idea that law enforcement is
38:09
Speaker 9: really all about racial oppression, not about protecting our citizens
38:14
Speaker 9: from criminals is very common on the left. And this
38:17
Speaker 9: woman is you know, anti police, wants open border as well.
38:21
Speaker 9: Of course, Joe Biden opened the southern borders. So these
38:25
Speaker 9: ideas are really not that far out of the mainstream
38:28
Speaker 9: and the Democratic Party. And I think she's going to
38:31
Speaker 9: be one more in a series of very far left
38:34
Speaker 9: Democrats that are going to Congress.
38:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, Look, it's going to be an interesting
38:39
Speaker 1: one if they get there, because I suspect it's going
38:42
Speaker 1: to actually help the Republicans come twenty twenty eight. But
38:45
Speaker 1: you know something else too that you wrote about in
38:47
Speaker 1: your power Line blog and I didn't see this anywhere
38:49
Speaker 1: else except for your blog here. And this is why
38:52
Speaker 1: it's such a valuable resource. The takeover of the Smithsonian
38:57
Speaker 1: Institution's National Museum of American History by the anti American left. Now,
39:04
Speaker 1: this should be such a national treasure in Washington, and
39:10
Speaker 1: supposedly for families and children. And you've written that they
39:14
Speaker 1: have put on display s and m gear, crotch harnesses,
39:21
Speaker 1: chest binders for trans people as part of an exhibition.
39:27
Speaker 1: This seems like the most bizarre school field trip you'd
39:30
Speaker 1: ever get taken on.
39:31
Speaker 3: What's happened here, James.
39:34
Speaker 9: It seems like every institution has been taken over by
39:38
Speaker 9: the left. Here we have the National Museum of American History.
39:42
Speaker 9: It is run by the federal government, paid for by
39:45
Speaker 9: American taxpayers, and it's bitterly anti American. In addition to
39:49
Speaker 9: the crazy stuff that you just mentioned, their current exhibits
39:52
Speaker 9: attack Christopher Columbus, they call hard work a sign of
39:57
Speaker 9: white supremacy. They make a hair heroin out of Angela Davis,
40:02
Speaker 9: the communist who should have gone to prison for murder,
40:05
Speaker 9: and they even attack Mickey Mouse. It's totally out American.
40:10
Speaker 9: The Trump administration at least has written a report that
40:13
Speaker 9: exposed the radicalism of the current management of the Smithsonian,
40:18
Speaker 9: and the question now is are they going to be
40:20
Speaker 9: able to do anything about it?
40:22
Speaker 1: Well, this is a bigger problem sort of culturally. I
40:24
Speaker 1: mean we all sort of like to say, oh, well,
40:26
Speaker 1: woke is dead, Woke is over. We killed off woke.
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Speaker 1: But like everywhere I go to museums when I'm in
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Speaker 1: the United States, the last time I was at the
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Speaker 1: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and I was
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Speaker 1: looking at the American Impressions. Every single tag on the
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Speaker 1: painting was all about slavery and white privilege and patriarchy.
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Speaker 3: What is going on?
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Speaker 1: The cultural institutions seem to have been still taken over
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Speaker 1: and it's going to take generational change to force this out,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 9: These institutions are hunkering down and waiting for the Trump
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Speaker 9: administration to end, hoping that we'll have a democratic administration
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Speaker 9: starting in twenty twenty nine, which may very well happen,
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Speaker 9: and then WALK is going to be back full force.
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Speaker 9: For now, they're just trying to ride out the storm.
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Speaker 9: Same thing with the universities. You know, the DEI stuff
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Speaker 9: is kind of gone quiet for a little while, but
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Speaker 9: they're just hoping to ride it out until the Trump
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Speaker 9: administration is over.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, all the more reason to get a Ruby
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Speaker 1: over somebody else. Solid in there in twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: John Heinracher, thanks so much for your time. Always fun
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Speaker 1: and fascinating to chat. And everybody go check out that
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Speaker 1: power Line blog. It is a gem. Coming up all
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Speaker 1: the latest in royal and entertainment news. As Prince Harry
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Speaker 1: suffers a major loss in the UK High Court, Chloe
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Speaker 1: Walker joins me next. Welcome back. Well, let's get the
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Speaker 1: latest in royal and entertainment news. And joining me now
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Speaker 1: in the studio with Sky News Lifestyle reporter Chloe Walker. Chloe,
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Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. I want to start with
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Speaker 1: Prince Harry once again in the news. This guy can't
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Speaker 1: stay out of the news, can he?
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Speaker 3: Anyway?
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Speaker 1: He's lost his privacy lawsuit against the publishers of The
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Speaker 1: Daily Meal UK. A judge has dismissed his lawsuit in
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Speaker 1: a written ruling claiming the Duke of Sassage failed to
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Speaker 1: prove his privacy invasion claims. Chloe, what were these claims?
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Speaker 1: Tell us about the suit? And I mean, why can't
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Speaker 1: this guy stay off the front page?
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Speaker 10: I know, well, it's been a shocking week for Prince Harry,
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Speaker 10: so far. First of all, I want to say a
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Speaker 10: shout out to his pr guy, Liam Maguire. It can't
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Speaker 10: have been an easy week for him. They've changed, chopped
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Speaker 10: and changed their plans. They're coming, they're not coming, They're
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Speaker 10: bringing the kids, They're not. But Harry arrived in the
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Speaker 10: UK by himself on Monday and on Tuesday he found
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Speaker 10: out that he had lost the case against A and L,
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Speaker 10: the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail. On Sunday,
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Speaker 10: so the judge dismissed all ninety seven claims by Harry
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Speaker 10: and several other high profile people, including Sir Elton John
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Speaker 10: and Elizabeth Hurley. They claimed that the journalists were unlawfully
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Speaker 10: gaining information about them through means of phone hacking, for example,
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Speaker 10: and all of those claims were dismissed, which was quite
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Speaker 10: embarrassing for Prince Harry and also very expensive.
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Speaker 5: Mm.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bit of an expensive loss, as you say.
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Speaker 1: But you know now that he is there and he's
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Speaker 1: there alone. And last time we chatted, we chatted about
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Speaker 1: all of the RIGA were all back and forth about
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Speaker 1: the security and Megan and the kids, and I mean,
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Speaker 1: I feel really bad. I actually feel quite bad for
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Speaker 1: the King here. Is there any chance of that meeting
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Speaker 1: happening between him and the king you know who was
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Speaker 1: not getting any younger?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, as do I I also feel for the king
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Speaker 10: at the end of the day. This is a really
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Speaker 10: sad story. It's a family falling apart in front of
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Speaker 10: the world. And as of today, The Mirror reported that
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Speaker 10: the King's aides have been trying to reach a time
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Speaker 10: to fit in with his diary to meet with Archie
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Speaker 10: and lilybat who the King has only meant a handful
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Speaker 10: of times. And he's seventy seven years old. He's living
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Speaker 10: with cancer. Like you said, he's not getting any younger,
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Speaker 10: and his aide said that they wouldn't want to pass
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Speaker 10: up an opportunity to meet them. So look, Harry is
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Speaker 10: in Birmingham today and I think for the rest of
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Speaker 10: the week, and perhaps Meghan and the kids will come.
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Speaker 10: It's understood there in Europe at the moment.
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Speaker 5: We'll see if they come. Who knows.
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Speaker 3: Well, this brings up a really interesting question to me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if Began and the kids can go to
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Speaker 1: Europe or wherever and not have a whole big thing
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Speaker 1: about you know, the security, doesn't that kind of point
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Speaker 1: to this idea that the security excuse was really just
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Speaker 1: a lever a bargaining ship for the UK visit.
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Speaker 5: Yes, that.
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Speaker 10: I think that's what a lot of people are really
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Speaker 10: frustrated about. They think that Harry's This all has sort
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Speaker 10: of hinged on whether or not Harry would get taxpayer
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Speaker 10: funded security, which he hasn't had for six years. Harry
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Speaker 10: and Meghan made the decision to down as senior royals
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Speaker 10: and moved to the US, which is all fine, and
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Speaker 10: if they want that extra security, I don't see why
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Speaker 10: they can't pay for it themselves and why the taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: Aren't they netflix billionaires or something. I mean, honestly, you know,
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Speaker 1: but it is getting, you know, pretty nasty, because we
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Speaker 1: have heard reports that Meghan is saying she's never going back.
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Speaker 1: The Royal expert Rob Shooter said that this whole thing
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Speaker 1: was one insult too many and as far as she's concerned,
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Speaker 1: she'll never see them again. He said, she believes every
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Speaker 1: time he reaches out to his family, they find another
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Speaker 1: way to reject him.
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Speaker 3: She's done.
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Speaker 1: She has no interest in ever putting herself or her
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Speaker 1: children through this again. Chloe, I don't want to psychoanalyze
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Speaker 1: people I never met, but you know what, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do it anyway. This feels, to use a word, toxic,
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Speaker 1: and it really does feel like, you know, his wife
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Speaker 1: here is trying to separate him from his old family.
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Speaker 10: I think the ones that really suffer in this are
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Speaker 10: the are the children. They seemed really excited that they
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Speaker 10: were going to potentially meet their father's side of the family,
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Speaker 10: and we heard that from a couple of different journalists
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Speaker 10: prior to the trip, when we all thought that they
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Speaker 10: were coming last week and we all had hope that
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Speaker 10: they would come. Meghan now apparently says that she wants
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Speaker 10: nothing to do with the royal family. I don't think
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Speaker 10: that many of them will loose sleep over that, but
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Speaker 10: I do think that the King will be saddened by it,
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Speaker 10: particularly because he won't see the.
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Speaker 5: Grand kit Well.
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Speaker 1: The thing that I keep saying is what did she
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Speaker 1: think that she was marrying into? But you know, here
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Speaker 1: we are. Let's move on from British Royalty too. I
46:26
Speaker 1: guess you could say sort of Australian Royalty with Nicole
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Speaker 1: Kidman and Keith Urban. Keith Urban has reportedly planned his
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Speaker 1: own celebration for his daughter Sunday Roses eighteenth birthday because
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Speaker 1: it's still too raw to join his ex wife, Nicole Kidman.
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Speaker 1: According to an insider, the Aussie country star will instead
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Speaker 1: have a quiet launch with Sunday and her younger sister
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Speaker 1: Faith Margaret Chloe. Again, this is one of these sort
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Speaker 1: of things. I know that they've busted up, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of separated couples and divorced couples.
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Speaker 1: Can't people just come together for the kids.
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Speaker 10: I think they fumbled this one hard. They were the
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Speaker 10: Aussie power well the marriage. Yes, they were the Oussie
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Speaker 10: power couple and it was a shock to many when
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Speaker 10: they separated and then finalized they divorced in January. I
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Speaker 10: do understand these things are complicated and maybe it is
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Speaker 10: still too raw for them to be, you know, in
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Speaker 10: the same room together. But according to reports, they actually
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Speaker 10: met up in Paris a few weeks ago and then
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Speaker 10: he did a wish Nicola happy birthday as well. I
47:30
Speaker 10: think it's nice that he's still doing something for Sunday Rows.
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Speaker 10: It's understood that the girls have sort of taken their
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Speaker 10: mother's side in the in the split, and they spend
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Speaker 10: most of their time with her, So it's nice that
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Speaker 10: he's still doing something with her and hopefully they can work.
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Speaker 3: Something make it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, before I let you go, still on the
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Speaker 1: Aussie Royalty here, Robert Irwin, what's this about? He's got
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Speaker 1: to do love interest and there's concerns that things are
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Speaker 1: moving a bit fast.
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Speaker 10: Yes, his love interest is none than twenty four year
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Speaker 10: old Ashley Scully. She's an American girl. She's from New
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Speaker 10: Jersey and she's also a wildlife photographer, which is how
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Speaker 10: they met. They've actually known each other for years and
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Speaker 10: they apparently met in twenty nineteen for a youth committee
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Speaker 10: group for the National Geographic and then they kept in touch.
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Speaker 3: And I think it's super sweet.
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Speaker 10: Robert Starr is well and truly on the rise, and
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Speaker 10: he's definitely got a busy schedule, but that doesn't mean that,
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Speaker 10: you know, there can't be a bit of time for romance.
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Speaker 10: And I think it's sort of nice. You know, the
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Speaker 10: American girl meets the Aussie boy. They both love wildlife.
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Speaker 10: It sounds a little bit like his parents, Terry and
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Speaker 10: the late Steve Bowin.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, you got to watch those Americas
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Speaker 1: clone walkers. Thank you so much for walking us through
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Speaker 1: all of this and we'll see you again soon.
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Speaker 3: Now that's it for me. Newsnight is next.