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The Rita Panahi Show | 11 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring lids Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Reader Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panalhy Show. I'm
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Speaker 3: Carolo Marcus Fillingen for RITA. Coming up tonight. Conservative Matt
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Speaker 3: Canavan becomes Leader of the Nationals and the first ever
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Speaker 3: National to lead from the Senate. My panel will break
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Speaker 3: down what this means for the coalition and the threat
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Speaker 3: it bases from one nation. The US is preparing to
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Speaker 3: launch its most intense day of strikes against Iran if
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Speaker 3: Peter Jennings will join me to talk about that. The
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Speaker 3: New York mayor zor O on Mum Danny comes under
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Speaker 3: fire for hosting a protest leader about to be deported
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Speaker 3: from the US over his Hamas support. Armi Horowitz will
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Speaker 3: explain what that's all about. Boopee Goldberg claims Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: started the war to distract from the Epstein files. Alex
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Speaker 3: Stine on how insane that is and in left He's
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Speaker 3: losing it. Our high school teacher's helpful advice for the
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Speaker 3: Iranian regime on how to assassinate Trump.
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Speaker 4: Just go straight for our jugular, the White House obviously
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Speaker 4: the capital. I know those are like very well protected.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a place called moral Laga.
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Speaker 3: Seriously, But let's start with the Nationals, who today have
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Speaker 3: a new leader, Queensland Senator Matt Cannavan, who's become the
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Speaker 3: first ever National to lead from the Senate. He beat
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Speaker 3: Kevin Hogan and Bridget Mackenzie in a party room ballot
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Speaker 3: this morning. Victorian MP Darren Chester was also elected the
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Speaker 3: party's new deputy leader. It was Canaban following the announcement
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Speaker 3: this afternoon.
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Speaker 5: We need to have more Australian farming, more Australian manufacturing,
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Speaker 5: more Australian jobs. We need to have more Australian everything.
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Speaker 5: We need to manifest a hyper Australia here. We need
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Speaker 5: to go hyper Australia for our country. And this government
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Speaker 5: continuing now to act like everything is fine while our
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Speaker 5: country burns is not acceptable for the Australian people. So
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Speaker 5: all the promise I give and gave to our party
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Speaker 5: room and to all Australians out there, is that I
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Speaker 5: will now not rest to fight for our nation, to
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Speaker 5: get back, to use our resources, to fight for the
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Speaker 5: Australian people, to put our country first. And I'm very,
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Speaker 5: very proud to lead this wonderful team in the Nationals
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Speaker 5: Party in that pursuit.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is News Called senior writer Patrick Carlyon
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Speaker 3: and the Institute of Public Affairs senior fellow Colleen Harkin. Patrick, Colleen,
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Speaker 3: Great to see you both. I'll start with you Patrick.
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Speaker 3: Matt Canavan has set out there his hyper Australian vision.
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Speaker 3: Do you think he's the person to bring the troubled
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Speaker 3: coalition closer together and confront the threat of an increasingly
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Speaker 3: popular one nation.
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Speaker 6: Look, he faces a few battles, Caroline, obviously from labor,
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Speaker 6: from the Teals. The biggest bat is going to be
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Speaker 6: one nation. Whether he can be a legitimate alternative to
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Speaker 6: the votes that they have stolen so amazingly over the
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Speaker 6: past few months. And look, he can be his authentic self.
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Speaker 6: As you said, he's a conservative, he believes in things,
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Speaker 6: he knows what he's about, and there won't be any
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Speaker 6: sort of mucking about on what he thinks and what
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Speaker 6: he's going to say. And he tried to sort of
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Speaker 6: separate the Nationals from one nation. He talked about uniting
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Speaker 6: Australia rather than dividing it. And I think we'll hear
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Speaker 6: more and more of that kind of rhetoric from him.
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Speaker 6: In the coming days and weeks.
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Speaker 3: The other thing we've heard a lot of lately from
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Speaker 3: Cannaban Colleen is speaking out against paul En Hanson, especially
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Speaker 3: some of her comments recently to do with Muslims. He's
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Speaker 3: also spoken out against Barnaby Joyce, who was a close
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Speaker 3: mate of his and the Nationals after he defected to
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Speaker 3: One Nation. As Patrick points out, Canavan is a conservative,
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Speaker 3: little proud the former leader was more moderate. Do you
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Speaker 3: think then that this will help stem the flow of
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Speaker 3: conservative votes to Pauline Hanson's party.
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Speaker 7: Well, Canevan has been really consistent his entire political career,
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Speaker 7: which is more than you can say for some MPs.
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Speaker 7: He was an early voice against against the voice of
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Speaker 7: early dissenter of the voice.
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Speaker 3: I should say.
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Speaker 7: He's been a advocate for using out many resources and
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Speaker 7: cost of energy, cost of living, so he's been He's
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Speaker 7: a plain speaking person that I think people warm to.
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Speaker 7: So I do think that he will claw back some
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Speaker 7: of those one nation votes. It is the irony though,
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Speaker 7: that the Nationals are the most exposed to one nation
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Speaker 7: votes because they're the people who have championed a lot
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Speaker 7: of those causes. And it remains to be seen yet
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Speaker 7: whether the coalition can actually get their act together quickly
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Speaker 7: enough to bring back those votes because there are still
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Speaker 7: a lot of big ticket items that have not been
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Speaker 7: yet resolved between the Nationals and the Liberal parties. So
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Speaker 7: there's still a lot of work to do. But I
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Speaker 7: do think that Canavan is a good operator. He presents well,
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Speaker 7: he speaks well, and he will I think stop the
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Speaker 7: bleeding perhaps from the Nationals.
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Speaker 3: I think he could be right Colleen, and he is
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Speaker 3: a favorite among sky Views as well. We always loved
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Speaker 3: having him on the network. Let's talk about Home Affairs
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Speaker 3: Minister Tony Burke, who's confirmed two additional members of the
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Speaker 3: Iranian women's football team have sought asylum, including one player
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Speaker 3: and one support member. Here was Burke talking about that
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Speaker 3: this morning.
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Speaker 1: I made them the same offer that I had made
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Speaker 1: the five players the night before, and that was that
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Speaker 1: if they wanted to receive a humanitarian visa for Australia
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Speaker 1: which would have a pathway to a permanent visa, I
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Speaker 1: had the paperwork ready to execute that immediately. They both
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Speaker 1: said that they did. I signed off on that as
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Speaker 1: a department too start processing straight away, and overnight that
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Speaker 1: processing happened after I'd flown on to Sydney. Those two
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Speaker 1: women were reunited with the other five players.
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Speaker 3: Ten News Plus has also aired harrowing vision of the
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Speaker 3: moment the players tried to flee their hotel as minders
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Speaker 3: attempted to chase them Patrick. The players have already now
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Speaker 3: been offered a place in the A League by one club,
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Speaker 3: Brisbane Raw, but there are still concerns for those players
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Speaker 3: who headed back to Iran, even though the regime I
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Speaker 3: note has said that they are safe. I don't think
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Speaker 3: we can take the regime and it's word necessarily.
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Speaker 6: Oh look, I think the dilemma for these players over
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Speaker 6: the past few days Caroline has really broken the hearts
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Speaker 6: of Australia. I mean there as I did, dan Is
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Speaker 6: I didn't. Their families, no matter whether they go back
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Speaker 6: or not, are going to be threatened. And we're talking
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Speaker 6: about the threat of death here, we're not talking about persecution.
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Speaker 6: So those players who were here in Australia, it's great
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Speaker 6: to see them being embraced by the community, but they've
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Speaker 6: got the same fears for their families as those players
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Speaker 6: who are going home as we speak. I mean, it's
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Speaker 6: a dreadful situation in Credit where it's due the Albanizi
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Speaker 6: government and Tony Burke actually did a good job of
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Speaker 6: making this happen as best as it could.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good result, which they deserve praise for.
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Speaker 3: I just wish they had perhaps started the ball rolling earlier,
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Speaker 3: because it had become a fiasco, Colleena over some ten
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Speaker 3: days from when these women first refused to sing the
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Speaker 3: national anthem at their first game at the Asian Women's Cup.
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Speaker 3: The government, however, through Tony Burke, has said it's glad
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Speaker 3: to see the back of some members of the Iranian squad,
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Speaker 3: but he was at pains to say the people connected
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Speaker 3: to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps had not been granted being
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Speaker 3: which suggests there had been an application by some IRGC
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Speaker 3: people to accompany the squad. Here. Clearly, though, Colleen, there
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Speaker 3: were people who were acting in the interests of the
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Speaker 3: regime by trying to stop these players from defecting.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's perplexing statement. He's obviously treading very carefully there
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Speaker 7: with what he has said, because on the one hand
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Speaker 7: he's saying that no Revolutionary Guard was provided a visa,
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Speaker 7: and yet the very next sentence is it is glad
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Speaker 7: to see the back of some of these people, and
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Speaker 7: there was clearly the scenario where the players were unable
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Speaker 7: to be spoken with unless they were separated from their minders.
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Speaker 7: So from where I'm sitting, both of those sentences can't
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Speaker 7: be true. It does bring into a question about who
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Speaker 7: gets to come into this country and under what circumstances,
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Speaker 7: and particularly Iranian Revolutionary Guards would have a huge question
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Speaker 7: mark for most Australians about foreign interference, the freedom of
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Speaker 7: movement within the country. When you're here, you know, there's
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Speaker 7: still a few questions to be asked around how that
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Speaker 7: whole snowing has worked out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are, And of course the Revolutionary Guard are
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Speaker 3: now a designated terror organization in this country, so anyone
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Speaker 3: who has association with them, you'd have to think has
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Speaker 3: no place here. The Reserve Bank, let's talk about that,
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Speaker 3: because it has warned the conflict in our own could
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Speaker 3: unleash toxic inflation and higher interest rates. Deputy Governor Andrew
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Speaker 3: Houses said, soaring oil prices risks driving up interest rates
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Speaker 3: while also tempering economic growth, which could lead to higher unemployment. Patrick,
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Speaker 3: how bad do you think this will get?
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Speaker 6: Look, that's the million dollar question, Caroline. I mean, it
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Speaker 6: comes down to how long does this battle go on.
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Speaker 6: You can't see Donald Trump sort of hanging around for months.
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Speaker 6: But it comes down to that little body of water
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Speaker 6: that no one had ever heard of in Australia until
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Speaker 6: last week, the Strait of Humunds, and whether the Iranians
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Speaker 6: can hold the world to rans and not let oil
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Speaker 6: tankers get through. If that is opened in the next
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Speaker 6: few days or weeks, I think we're probably looking at
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Speaker 6: a fairly soft landing.
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Speaker 8: I mean, things will sort of bounce back to normal.
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Speaker 6: If it's not, then we're going to have higher interest rates,
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Speaker 6: We're going to have a slowing economy that's going to
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Speaker 6: lead to higher unemployment, and it's going to be a
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Speaker 6: really rough twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 8: If this keeps playing out as it has over the
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Speaker 8: last week or so. It's really hard to say at
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Speaker 8: this point what's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Colleen. We've already seen the impact of this war on
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Speaker 3: petrol prices. Of course, here it's meant tweets like this
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Speaker 3: one from Anthony Albanizi back in twenty twenty one. Well
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Speaker 3: they haven't aged so well, ol Bow posted back then,
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Speaker 3: do you reckon? Scott Morrison has been to a petrol station.
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Speaker 3: Lately petrol prices surging under his watch, and if you
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Speaker 3: look closely there you can see the price one hundred
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Speaker 3: and seventy nine to ninety for unlettered I mean, g
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Speaker 3: it would be nice to have those sorts of prices now,
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Speaker 3: wouldn't it just?
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Speaker 7: I think I saw today about two twenty at the moment. Look,
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Speaker 7: I think the scenario here is that geopolitics will move
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Speaker 7: prices at the margin. But the real issue is it
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Speaker 7: is an insight into the failures of our domestic policy
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Speaker 7: because over the years we have demonized our natural resources.
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Speaker 3: We had eight.
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Speaker 7: Refineries of our own that we are now down to two.
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Speaker 7: We put out about two hundred and thirty thousand barrels
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Speaker 7: a day, which is not sustainable. It's about twenty percent
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Speaker 7: of what's required. So we've gone through this process where
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Speaker 7: Australia has allowed itself to be dependent on other countries
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Speaker 7: rather than using the resources that we have. And it
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Speaker 7: is that failure of domestic policy that is what will
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Speaker 7: hit us the hardest, not what's actually happening overseas.
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Speaker 3: Patrick. This fuel supply crisis has led to such panic
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Speaker 3: buying of jerry cans that Australians are now reselling them
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Speaker 3: on Facebook marketplace for as much as one thousand dollars. Yes,
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Speaker 3: that is what they're being listed for. One Melbourne seller,
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Speaker 3: who listed a fuel container for five hundred dollars told
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Speaker 3: potential customers no Lobal offers. I know what I've got Patrick. Look,
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Speaker 3: it's hard to know how seriously to take this, but
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Speaker 3: it is true that fuel containers are out of stock
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Speaker 3: in many places like Bunning's BCF and super Cheap Auto.
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Speaker 3: Clearly people are panicking.
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Speaker 8: Look, I can understand the panic. I mean, you hear
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Speaker 8: these stories.
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Speaker 6: You hear that we've got what thirty two days worth
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Speaker 6: of diesel left, and in the regions you are having
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Speaker 6: service stations that have run out of fuel and that
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Speaker 6: has huge flow on ef fix in terms of agriculture
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Speaker 6: and food and so on. It really is one of
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Speaker 6: those things with the jerry cans, where you can understand
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Speaker 6: people rushing out to buy them.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 6: I actually have a jerry can at home, but I
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Speaker 6: think it only holds about ten liters, which I think
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Speaker 6: is probably about one hundred kilometers worth of driving. I'm
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Speaker 6: not sure they're going to get you very far, but
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Speaker 6: I can understand and the sentiment, Well.
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Speaker 3: You might want to consider listing it on the Facebook marketplace,
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Speaker 3: so here they can get quite an amount for you. Now, Patrick,
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Speaker 3: if you're looking for an extra bit of cash, Let's
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Speaker 3: talk quickly about the official program for the Sydney Writers Festival,
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Speaker 3: because it's been released and it features none other than
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Speaker 3: controversial anti Israel academic Randa abdel Fata. But in a
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Speaker 3: refreshing change, the festival has also programmed a few Jewish
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Speaker 3: writers and artists, among them Lee Kaufman, Simon Tedesky and
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Speaker 3: journalist Michael Vesonte. Look, Colleen, it's good that there are
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Speaker 3: some Jewish voices finally being invited to these arts festivals.
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Speaker 3: I know a lot of Jewish artists and writers felt
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Speaker 3: like they had been left out in recent years. But
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Speaker 3: I do note that the Gaza session here only features
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Speaker 3: Palestinian and anti Israel voices. So I dare say I
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Speaker 3: don't feel that much has changed.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, this is the scenario with all of
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Speaker 7: these writers' festivals and arts festivals. It is that they
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Speaker 7: have become sort of progressive activist rallies rather than their
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Speaker 7: actual intended purpose. So you know, okay, they've included one
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Speaker 7: or two people now, but they've got a history of
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Speaker 7: using that platform for activism, and plenty of conservative people
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Speaker 7: have been not given the same oxygen, the same opportunity.
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Speaker 7: So I think people are looking at these things and
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Speaker 7: sort of going, it's just more of the same. It's
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Speaker 7: a slight tweak, but you know, it's not really solving
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Speaker 7: the problem about what their core purpose is actually supposed
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Speaker 7: to be about. Promoting you know, the penmanship of writing
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Speaker 7: and authorship and what that can do, rather than political
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Speaker 7: activism on the taxpayer's dollar.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, too true, and it just seems tokenistic at this point.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I looked at the schedule. Tony Abbott is
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Speaker 3: going to be featuring in the program, but overwhelmingly it
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Speaker 3: does feature very far left voices. Patrick Colleen, thank you
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Speaker 3: both so much for your time. Let's bring in adjunct
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Speaker 3: fellow at the said you to Public Affairs and former
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Speaker 3: Deputy Secretary of Strategy with the Defense Department, Peter Jennings. Peter,
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Speaker 3: thanks for joining us now. You've written an opinion apiece
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Speaker 3: in The Australian Today praising the Albanese government for making
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Speaker 3: the right decision to deploy aircraft and missiles to the
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Speaker 3: United Arab Emirates. But you say that there should have
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Speaker 3: been done even earlier. Why do you say that.
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Speaker 2: I think it would have been better for everyone, frankly
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Speaker 2: if the American and Israeli strike on Around had been
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Speaker 2: broadened out into a coalition operation. You know, there's fault
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Speaker 2: both in Washington, DC and in the Alliance capitals that.
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Speaker 9: That didn't happen. But it now slowly is.
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Speaker 2: The British are becoming involved, the French and Germans are
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Speaker 2: becoming involved, and a key reason for that is that
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Speaker 2: this is all in our national security interests to keep
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Speaker 2: oil flowing through the straits of for Mers and to
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Speaker 2: see ultimately Around turned into a non aggressive, hopefully democratic,
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Speaker 2: but at least not anti Israel and anti American country.
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Speaker 2: And so the more that we can contribute to that outcome,
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Speaker 2: the better. I think our government has taken a small step,
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Speaker 2: a useful step, but there's more things that we could do,
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Speaker 2: and if the war lasts for a longer period of time,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure we will become more involved in different ways.
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Speaker 10: Well.
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Speaker 3: Foreign Minister Paneywong has said that she anticipates that this
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Speaker 3: conflict will continue for some time. Do you see this going?
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Speaker 3: How long do you think it's going to go for
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Speaker 3: and do you think then we need to take more
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Speaker 3: of an offensive role in cooperation here, because the government's
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Speaker 3: been very clear to say that this is purely defensive.
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Speaker 3: We're just helping out the Gulf States. But do we
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Speaker 3: need now to be joining in on the offensive side
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Speaker 3: of things.
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Speaker 2: I'd like i government to be playing fewer games around
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Speaker 2: what's pure defensive. I mean, I thought it was ridiculous
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Speaker 2: for the Prime Minister to suggest that, well, we had
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Speaker 2: three sailors on that American submarine which torpedoed an Iranian boat,
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Speaker 2: but our sailors weren't doing anything offensive. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you're a crew of a submarine that torpedoes and boat,
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Speaker 2: you've been involved in an offensive act.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what were they doing playing solitaire at the time.
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Speaker 2: There's no peace cell at the back of the submarine, right,
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Speaker 2: So I mean that it's kind of silly that the.
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Speaker 9: Government is making these distinctions.
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Speaker 2: Where I think we should go myself would be to
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Speaker 2: offer a ship which, in coalition with others, could be
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Speaker 2: patrolling the straits of Immers and the entrance to the
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Speaker 2: straits on both sides. I think it's a critical interest
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Speaker 2: to all of us to see that oil flow continue,
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Speaker 2: and so that's something that I think our government could,
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Speaker 2: with a little bit of courage, sell to the Australian people.
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Speaker 2: On the question of you know, how long will the
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Speaker 2: conflict go, I don't know. What I can see is
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Speaker 2: that it doesn't look to me like the regimes on
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Speaker 2: the point of surrender. It still seems to be functioning
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Speaker 2: as a government. I keep seeing clips of Raqi Iranian
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Speaker 2: controlled television still functioning. So I think there's more that
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Speaker 2: needs to happen. And what I'm really getting to on
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Speaker 2: this is to say, well, it's one thing to destroy
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Speaker 2: their nuclear infrastructure and their missiles and drones, but at
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Speaker 2: the end of the day, you don't get rid of
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Speaker 2: that hostile and tent towards Israel and the United States
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Speaker 2: unless you get rid of that theocratic dictatorship which operates
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Speaker 2: in Tehran.
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Speaker 9: And so I think the.
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Speaker 2: US and the Israelis need to stick with that until
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Speaker 2: they get to that point, and that could be quite
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Speaker 2: some time. It could be weeks, it could be a
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Speaker 2: small number of months. But the war is not going
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Speaker 2: to end in the next forty eight or seventy two hours.
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Speaker 3: No, it doesn't seem that way to find Secretary of
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Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth said the US is preparing to launch its
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Speaker 3: most intense day of strikes against Iran. Here he was
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Speaker 3: giving an update on Operation Epic Theory at the Pentagon overnight.
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Speaker 11: Today will be yet again our most intense day of
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Speaker 11: strikes inside Iran. The most fighters, the most bombers, the
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Speaker 11: most strikes, intelligence, more refined and better than ever.
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Speaker 8: So that's on one hand.
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Speaker 11: On the other hand, the last twenty four hours have
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Speaker 11: seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they've been
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Speaker 11: capable of firing yet.
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Speaker 3: Peter Hegseth said again the US is winning this war
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Speaker 3: and also tried to reassure Americans that the US won't
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Speaker 3: become trapped in another endless war. Do you think he's
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Speaker 3: right on both counts.
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Speaker 9: I don't think the US will allow itself to be trapped.
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Speaker 2: I think there will be very strict limits up against
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Speaker 2: which President Trump will not go by the way, I
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Speaker 2: don't think that rules out a small number of boots
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Speaker 2: on the ground, and I wouldn't be surprised, in fact,
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Speaker 2: if there were some special forces on the ground already
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Speaker 2: in Iran, so you know, more still to go. I
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Speaker 2: think what we're seeing Hegseth do here is that he
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Speaker 2: needs to give the impression and he does that the
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Speaker 2: Americans are committed to this operation. He can't leave the
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Speaker 2: Iranians thinking that if they can just tough it out
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Speaker 2: in the bunkers for another week.
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Speaker 9: That's the end of it.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's kind of the purpose of these
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Speaker 2: rather hyped press conferences that hecsectors is given.
20:36
Speaker 9: And it's clear to me that they've done that.
20:39
Speaker 2: They being the Americans, have done everything they can to
20:42
Speaker 2: give themselves that capacity to keep going. They've pushed a
20:45
Speaker 2: lot of military equipment into the region, a lot of
20:49
Speaker 2: bombs and missiles to enable these operations to continue. And
20:53
Speaker 2: so that is surely going to happen up until the
20:55
Speaker 2: point that we get a surrender, or a new leader
21:00
Speaker 2: takes over, or we start to see signs of popular
21:04
Speaker 2: revolt in Tehran. I think they're the things that we
21:06
Speaker 2: need to look for now. If that doesn't happen in
21:10
Speaker 2: the next few weeks, I'm going to start to get
21:11
Speaker 2: a bit more concerned about the overall direction of the campaign.
21:15
Speaker 2: But I think at the moment, the advantages with the
21:18
Speaker 2: Americans and the Israelis, and I think it'll stay that.
21:20
Speaker 9: Way for some time.
21:22
Speaker 3: Okay, let's hope. So thank you Peter Jennings, appreciate your time.
21:26
Speaker 3: After the break left, He's losing it, including this activist
21:30
Speaker 3: demanding everyone be allowed to stay in New York, only
21:33
Speaker 3: to be interrupted by an ISIS suspect throwing a bomb.
21:48
Speaker 3: Welcome back. I'm Cali Marcus filling in for Ruta. And
21:51
Speaker 3: now it's time for lefties losing it. Let's begin with
21:55
Speaker 3: these Students for Palestine Australia activists telling children to skips
22:00
Speaker 3: today to protest against the war on the Iranian regime.
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Speaker 12: We're walking out of school in Uni to protest Israel
22:07
Speaker 12: and America's war on the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, sorry, Let me just interrupt you there. This
22:12
Speaker 3: is not the US and Israel's war on the Middle East.
22:16
Speaker 3: These were preemptive strikes against a despotic Islamist regime, not
22:22
Speaker 3: the entire Middle East. It's Iran who has widened this
22:25
Speaker 3: conflict by hitting Gulf states. But please carry on.
22:29
Speaker 9: Schools have been bombed in Iran.
22:30
Speaker 13: One hundred and sixty were killed in an elementary school
22:33
Speaker 13: in Iran, and that is why every high schooler needs
22:35
Speaker 13: to be out on Wednesday.
22:36
Speaker 3: Wait, can I just jump in here again. We don't
22:39
Speaker 3: yet know who hit the school. That is still under investigation.
22:43
Speaker 3: President Trump has said the US believes the bombing was
22:46
Speaker 3: done by your mates Iran.
22:48
Speaker 12: But let's continue bespeakable war of aggression by Trump and
22:52
Speaker 12: Netanyahu against the Middle East. This is a new war
22:56
Speaker 12: which is destroying hundreds of homes, it's killing thousands of people,
23:00
Speaker 12: and so we need all young people to join us
23:02
Speaker 12: in the streets to stand against it.
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Speaker 3: Look, there is so much to unpack there that is
23:08
Speaker 3: not factual, But not a single mention I knowe of course,
23:11
Speaker 3: and the tens of thousands of Iranian people this evil
23:14
Speaker 3: regime has murdered in recent weeks alone, I guess they're
23:19
Speaker 3: not worth wagging school for. Meanwhile, the deputy leader of
23:22
Speaker 3: Australia's far left Greens party was also urging kids to
23:26
Speaker 3: play hooky today, telling them protesting for Palestine is more
23:31
Speaker 3: important than school.
23:33
Speaker 14: Students across the country are showing up for something that matters.
23:38
Speaker 14: They're showing up for the people in Gaza. They're showing
23:41
Speaker 14: up to say students won't stay silent and honestly, attendance
23:45
Speaker 14: is better there anyway. So if you're still hair watching this,
23:49
Speaker 14: consider this your late slip. Be there, bring your friends,
23:53
Speaker 14: because sometimes the most important thing you can do as
23:57
Speaker 14: students is walk up.
24:01
Speaker 3: Over in the US. Meanwhile, this high school teacher went
24:05
Speaker 3: on TikTok to offer advice to Iranian leaders about where
24:09
Speaker 3: they should target if they want to kill Trump, just.
24:13
Speaker 4: Go straight for our jugular the White House, obviously the Capitol.
24:19
Speaker 4: I know those are like very well protected. Have you
24:22
Speaker 4: ever heard of a place called Mara Laga?
24:27
Speaker 3: That video was taken down by the platform after being reported,
24:31
Speaker 3: but the teacher was soon back and doubling down.
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Speaker 15: So apparently a lot of you did not like my video,
24:39
Speaker 15: asking countries like Aaron if they knew that our president
24:45
Speaker 15: spent a lot of time at mar A Lago.
24:48
Speaker 4: You guys reported it enough to get it taken down.
24:52
Speaker 15: I'm gonna repeat it.
24:56
Speaker 4: Have they checked mar A Lago? Do you know he
24:58
Speaker 4: spends a long time with mar A Lago.
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Speaker 3: Let's put aside how disturbing it is that this is
25:04
Speaker 3: a person who's in charge of educating children. But I'm
25:08
Speaker 3: pretty sure the Iranian regime has already heard of Mari
25:11
Speaker 3: Lago without your help, lady, but it's not just randoms
25:15
Speaker 3: online making light of the assassination of a president. Watch
25:19
Speaker 3: as Joy Behar on the View reminds her audience about
25:23
Speaker 3: the French Revolution. Yes, that's when people rose up and
25:27
Speaker 3: the king was executed.
25:30
Speaker 10: I feel like we're living in the reign of terror?
25:32
Speaker 16: Am I the only one here to remember the French Revolution?
25:36
Speaker 10: I really feel like every day I.
25:39
Speaker 16: Wake up and he has created more chaos, more misery
25:43
Speaker 16: around the world.
25:44
Speaker 10: But the economy is going down the toilet.
25:47
Speaker 3: And let's go now to this extraordinary footage of a
25:50
Speaker 3: New York comedian saying everyone is welcome in his city,
25:55
Speaker 3: only to be rudely interrupted by an alleged isis motivated
25:59
Speaker 3: suspect throwing an improvised explosive device at the mayor's zor
26:04
Speaker 3: on Mum Danny's home.
26:07
Speaker 13: We were born and raised in New York, and we
26:09
Speaker 13: want everyone here to stay in New York.
26:12
Speaker 10: You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone.
26:15
Speaker 14: Else what.
26:23
Speaker 3: A look on his face? That was inconvenient. And here
26:27
Speaker 3: is that same comedian, Walter Masterson, talking about the incident later,
26:32
Speaker 3: and it turns out having a bomb thrown over his
26:35
Speaker 3: head hasn't changed his views.
26:38
Speaker 13: They literally threw the bomb over my head while I
26:41
Speaker 13: was talking about inclusion. I still stand by my original point,
26:45
Speaker 13: which is I'm a native New Yorker, I was born
26:47
Speaker 13: and raised in New York. New York City is for everyone,
26:51
Speaker 13: except for terrorists who throw bombs and goat white supremacists
26:55
Speaker 13: like Jake Lang.
26:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, never forget the real problem here, there is white supremacy. Meanwhile,
27:02
Speaker 3: this Palestinian woman who was given asylum in Canada also
27:07
Speaker 3: has a problem with white people and apparently the country
27:10
Speaker 3: that gave her refuge.
27:12
Speaker 2: And getting to the halloweenstance, whites people. Yeah, white people,
27:17
Speaker 2: white people a million times.
27:21
Speaker 3: What a charming person. But let's finish with another so
27:24
Speaker 3: called comedian, Trevor Noah, explaining why he thinks biological males
27:29
Speaker 3: should be able to beat up women in a boxing brink.
27:33
Speaker 17: If a skinny ass man is allowed to be a boxer,
27:39
Speaker 17: a man who weighs less than a bag of cement
27:41
Speaker 17: is allowed to be a professional boxer. A man that
27:43
Speaker 17: I can pick up and throw to the other side
27:46
Speaker 17: of the room, he'll beat me in a fight boxing,
27:48
Speaker 17: but I can lift him. If that person gets accommodated,
27:52
Speaker 17: Why can we not accommodate a trans woman is what
27:54
Speaker 17: I'm saying.
27:56
Speaker 3: We can accommodate them though in the men's cap category.
28:01
Speaker 3: Joining me in ours. US documentary filmmaker Army Horowitz. Army,
28:06
Speaker 3: thanks for your time. Good to see you again. Let's
28:08
Speaker 3: return to the war, and the US military says it
28:11
Speaker 3: has struck more than five thousand targets and damage or
28:15
Speaker 3: destroyed more than fifty Iranian shifts in the first day
28:19
Speaker 3: first ten days rather of Operation Epic Fury Now. It
28:23
Speaker 3: follows an earlier warning from President Donald Trump on truth
28:26
Speaker 3: Social that Iran would be hit twenty times harder if
28:30
Speaker 3: the regime does anything to stop the flow of oil
28:33
Speaker 3: within the Strait of Hormuz. A video released by US
28:37
Speaker 3: Central Command shows sixteen Iranian mind laying vessels near the
28:41
Speaker 3: strait being destroyed. Army Trump has also said he is
28:45
Speaker 3: not happy about Iran's pick for new supreme leader.
28:49
Speaker 10: This is the.
28:50
Speaker 3: Late Iotola's son, Mishama Kamene, saying I don't believe he
28:55
Speaker 3: can live in peace. What do you see happening in
28:58
Speaker 3: the next phase of complaints?
29:02
Speaker 18: Yeah, Nepo, Baby Harmony is gonna have a lot of
29:06
Speaker 18: therapist material to discuss when he found out that Daddy Homeny,
29:12
Speaker 18: prior to his death, wrote a letter right to the
29:16
Speaker 18: Council of Experts saying, please do not elect my son
29:20
Speaker 18: as Supreme Leader.
29:22
Speaker 10: So, yeah, he can't.
29:24
Speaker 3: Live with it.
29:25
Speaker 10: He won't live with it.
29:25
Speaker 18: I don't think he'll be with us for a very
29:27
Speaker 18: long time. Look around has had a very bad hand,
29:30
Speaker 18: and they've played.
29:31
Speaker 10: It really, really poorly. Let me tell you what I've seen.
29:36
Speaker 10: I've seen that.
29:37
Speaker 18: Two of our biggest geopolitical foes, Russia and Iran, haven't
29:41
Speaker 18: been exposed as paper tigers. Okay, and the third China,
29:47
Speaker 18: they're being really careful.
29:50
Speaker 10: Mind they're p's and q's. They also want to be
29:53
Speaker 10: exposed to what.
29:54
Speaker 18: I think that the largest of the three, I think
29:56
Speaker 18: relatively are size and the amount of money they spent
29:59
Speaker 18: in the military. I think they might be a bit
30:01
Speaker 18: of a paper tiger. Also, sorry, I know it's a
30:03
Speaker 18: hot take.
30:04
Speaker 13: I know.
30:05
Speaker 10: Look, we're twelve days in and the media is already
30:08
Speaker 10: using the Q word, right, quagmire. Twelve days in.
30:14
Speaker 18: Let's be clear, Okay, in twelve days, we are very close.
30:19
Speaker 18: I'm not there yet, but we are very close to
30:22
Speaker 18: flipping a regime that has been a thorn on our
30:25
Speaker 18: side for half a century, Okay. And to give you
30:28
Speaker 18: the sense of scale and what we've accomplished in twelve days,
30:31
Speaker 18: like you said it, five thousand targets in twelve days.
30:35
Speaker 18: Bosnia was several days long, the bombing of Bosnia and
30:40
Speaker 18: we hit three hundred targets. So yeah, this has been
30:44
Speaker 18: an incredibly effective campaign. I see it continuing, and I
30:49
Speaker 18: see the days of the Iranian regime very very numbered.
30:53
Speaker 3: Well, look, I tend to agree with you. I don't
30:55
Speaker 3: know about the China and Russia being pa just paper targets,
30:58
Speaker 3: especially China boy. But you know, there were people who
31:02
Speaker 3: were these and never Trumpers who were talking about a
31:06
Speaker 3: never ending war from within the first few days. So
31:10
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of those people know what
31:11
Speaker 3: they're talking about. But let's see what happens next. Trump supporters,
31:14
Speaker 3: there are some of them have also expressed concern about
31:18
Speaker 3: what the war is doing to oil prices in the US.
31:21
Speaker 3: Now that includes the president's close allied Republican Senator Lindsay Graham,
31:25
Speaker 3: and he's been one of Israel's biggest supporters in the Senate,
31:28
Speaker 3: but he's also among those who are cautioning the President
31:31
Speaker 3: about Israel possibly going too far in bombing Iran's oil installations.
31:37
Speaker 3: He said, our goal is to liberate the Iranian people
31:40
Speaker 3: in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to
31:44
Speaker 3: start a new and better life when this regime collapses.
31:47
Speaker 3: The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor. Armie,
31:52
Speaker 3: what did he make of this intervention?
31:56
Speaker 18: Yeah, look, I understand what he's saying for sure, Right,
32:00
Speaker 18: I'm not particularly worried about it. Right, I think that
32:03
Speaker 18: first of all, I think we'll do, first of all,
32:05
Speaker 18: all all the Israeli targets. By the way, you can,
32:08
Speaker 18: you can rest assured they're they're being clear to the
32:12
Speaker 18: US military. But I think we're also gonna whatever's been hit,
32:15
Speaker 18: we're going to rebuild, no question about it.
32:17
Speaker 10: If the regime is flip, that is right.
32:19
Speaker 18: So if they're not flip, obviously we want them as
32:21
Speaker 18: crippled as possible. So I think you want to hit
32:23
Speaker 18: those targets, then the day we're gonna rebuild them. Anyways, Look, ultimately,
32:30
Speaker 18: but you have to look at what the effect has been.
32:32
Speaker 10: What was the cause and effect and the effect has been.
32:34
Speaker 18: Yeah, oil prices had gone up, and I don't think
32:37
Speaker 18: Trump and anybody should should kind of say, hey, it's
32:41
Speaker 18: no big deal. Now it's it's not nothing, right, it
32:43
Speaker 18: hurts American taxpayers and their pocketbooks. That's important because you
32:46
Speaker 18: want support American support.
32:48
Speaker 10: For the war.
32:49
Speaker 18: But ultimately oil is is now down under one hundred bucks.
32:53
Speaker 18: That's a twenty five percent increase where it was prior
32:55
Speaker 18: to the war. Just some context, the second Golf War
32:59
Speaker 18: prices spiked seventy five percent, and in the First Golf
33:03
Speaker 18: War price spiked one hundred and fifty percent.
33:05
Speaker 10: There's Look, these.
33:07
Speaker 18: Calculations are made prior to this attack, no question about it.
33:10
Speaker 18: And we're the reason why prices haven't spiked is art
33:12
Speaker 18: because for a run reasons.
33:13
Speaker 10: First of all, we have a.
33:14
Speaker 18: Far more diversified We don't depend on the Middle East
33:18
Speaker 18: like we did before. It's far more diversified, fifty percent
33:21
Speaker 18: larger production in general since then, the US supplying the
33:25
Speaker 18: world is one of the main reasons behind it. And
33:27
Speaker 18: by the way, going back to China, they're the ones
33:30
Speaker 18: who are affected most by this, to be honest, right,
33:33
Speaker 18: because China is the number one recipient of oil not
33:37
Speaker 18: just from Iran but from the Strait of Hormuz. Or
33:39
Speaker 18: should I call the straight up America and number two India.
33:44
Speaker 18: China's three times more dependent on the straight of.
33:47
Speaker 10: Hormves than India.
33:48
Speaker 18: All that oil, none of the ghost to the west right,
33:50
Speaker 18: the west is actually dependent mostly on the US, believe
33:52
Speaker 18: it or not, the European number one oil suppliers America
33:56
Speaker 18: thankfully so it's mostly Asian providers. But yeah, look, I
34:00
Speaker 18: think that these calculus are made, and I think the
34:02
Speaker 18: old disruption, as far as they are, far less than
34:05
Speaker 18: we see in the past.
34:07
Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's hope it doesn't get a lot worse
34:09
Speaker 3: or fuel prices are going up a lot here in
34:12
Speaker 3: Australia too, of course. Now, Army, I want to get
34:14
Speaker 3: your reaction to the Democrat opposition to Trump's Save America Act.
34:20
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at what Senate Minority Leader Chuck
34:22
Speaker 3: Schumer had to say.
34:24
Speaker 19: It makes it. It allows Ice to kick tens of
34:29
Speaker 19: billions of people.
34:31
Speaker 10: Off the rolls, off the rolls.
34:34
Speaker 19: And they don't tell them until election. Dan, you show
34:37
Speaker 19: them and you say you're not registered anymore. You're not
34:40
Speaker 19: registered here, You're not on the rolls.
34:43
Speaker 3: And White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was forced to
34:47
Speaker 3: debunk a claim by the Democrats that married women wouldn't
34:52
Speaker 3: be able to vote under the Act.
34:55
Speaker 20: Of the Democrats who have created this myth, and it
34:57
Speaker 20: has been perpetuated, unfortunately by any in the mainstream media.
35:01
Speaker 20: Let me be very clear, the Save America Act does
35:04
Speaker 20: not prohibit anyone from voting, with the exception of illegal aliens.
35:08
Speaker 20: And the greatest way to disenfranchise American citizens from voting
35:11
Speaker 20: in American elections is to allow legal aliens to vote,
35:14
Speaker 20: which is what Democrats want to do.
35:17
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean all of this in opposition to
35:20
Speaker 3: voter id.
35:23
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's so interesting.
35:25
Speaker 18: They continue to take such weird positions, right, they continue
35:29
Speaker 18: to take the wrong side of eighty twenty positions, and
35:32
Speaker 18: it's it's confounding. No, they don't really care about it
35:38
Speaker 18: because they want as many people to vote who they
35:42
Speaker 18: think will vote for them, despite what the laws may allow.
35:45
Speaker 18: Laws voter laws be dead, they don't care. Look, you know,
35:49
Speaker 18: one of my most not one of my most famous
35:52
Speaker 18: video was a voter idevideo I did that's hit over
35:55
Speaker 18: a billion views, and it's really because it really speaks
35:58
Speaker 18: this issue. And you know, but I haven't said a
36:00
Speaker 18: lot with the reason why I made that particular video
36:03
Speaker 18: was because my dad had died about six months before
36:07
Speaker 18: I went to vote. This won election in Los Angeles,
36:10
Speaker 18: and when I went to vote, his name was still
36:12
Speaker 18: in the voter rules, which is not bizarre.
36:15
Speaker 10: But what was bizarre was that you.
36:16
Speaker 18: Have a little name and his name was checked and
36:19
Speaker 18: somebody had voted for him. And I said to the
36:21
Speaker 18: guy there, I said, somebody voted for my dad.
36:23
Speaker 10: He is dead. He goes, I don't know. I just asked.
36:26
Speaker 18: They gave me the name and the address, and I
36:28
Speaker 18: just let them vote. They don't have to show any
36:30
Speaker 18: kind of ida. I took a picture of that and
36:32
Speaker 18: I sent the California Board of Elections, I go, here
36:34
Speaker 18: is a demonstrable clear voting from us.
36:37
Speaker 10: They never even got back to me. They don't care.
36:41
Speaker 3: That is astonishing. I will have to catch up on
36:44
Speaker 3: that video because that is crazy stuff. I don't see
36:48
Speaker 3: why little makers. Well I do understand it. I can
36:50
Speaker 3: understand why little makers on the left want to allow
36:52
Speaker 3: people who might be illegal aliens to vote because they're
36:56
Speaker 3: more likely to vote for them, But it still boggles
36:58
Speaker 3: the mind. From over here in Australia, Army CNN let's
37:02
Speaker 3: talk about them, because they've come under fire for spinning
37:04
Speaker 3: the ISIS inspired attempted bombing out the front of the
37:08
Speaker 3: New York Mayor's residence into some kind of human interest
37:12
Speaker 3: color story. In a questionable post on x, the network wrote,
37:16
Speaker 3: two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning
37:21
Speaker 3: for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the
37:24
Speaker 3: city during abnormally warm weather, But in less than an
37:28
Speaker 3: hour of their lives would drastically change, as the pair
37:31
Speaker 3: would be arrested foot throwing homemade bombs during an anti
37:36
Speaker 3: Muslim protest outside of Mayor's or on Mum Danny's home.
37:40
Speaker 3: I mean even talking about just it was an anti
37:43
Speaker 3: Muslim protest, not the fact that these two were suspected
37:47
Speaker 3: of doing it in the name of ISIS, according to police.
37:51
Speaker 3: CNN has since deleted the post and issued an apolished
37:55
Speaker 3: a bit. Truly, this is beyond parad isn't it.
37:59
Speaker 18: No, it's bizarre, but it's such obviously fascinating insight.
38:03
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter.
38:03
Speaker 10: They deleted it because this is what they were thinking.
38:05
Speaker 18: They rely deleted because the backlash, But such a fascinating
38:08
Speaker 18: insight into the legacy media and how they deal with
38:11
Speaker 18: these issues. Right, Look, this is not crazy, surprising and surprising.
38:17
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, I did a little.
38:19
Speaker 18: Bit of an analysis and I fed this in the
38:21
Speaker 18: three different AI models, and what they came up with
38:25
Speaker 18: was that there's been three in the last twenty four hours,
38:28
Speaker 18: three times as much coverage on the civilian deaths in
38:31
Speaker 18: Iran and there has been on an ISIS attack here
38:35
Speaker 18: in the United States. It's absolutely incredible on what the
38:39
Speaker 18: priorities are. And they're doing that obviously because they want
38:42
Speaker 18: to make this war look like some evil, terrible war
38:45
Speaker 18: where civilians are being murdered. By the way, this for
38:47
Speaker 18: some context, CNN, just so you know, Yes, there have
38:50
Speaker 18: been a little under two thousand Ryan civilians who have
38:53
Speaker 18: been killed, and that's awful, right obviously, but some context,
38:57
Speaker 18: you're talking about roll from between fifteen and already thousand
39:01
Speaker 18: bombs that have been dropped in Iran.
39:04
Speaker 10: Talk about precision.
39:05
Speaker 18: To have two thousands million deaths with that kind of
39:08
Speaker 18: heavenly weaponry being dropped me around, shows you how much
39:12
Speaker 18: the US military and Israel cares.
39:14
Speaker 10: About trying not to hit civilian deaths.
39:16
Speaker 18: That to be the article, not the article saying, look,
39:19
Speaker 18: how my civilian deaths are and by the way, ignoring
39:21
Speaker 18: pretty much the Ice attacks, it just gives you a
39:24
Speaker 18: sense of the priorities of the US media.
39:26
Speaker 3: It was exactly the same we've covered to the Gaza
39:29
Speaker 3: conflict as well, wasn't it, And the amount of civilian
39:31
Speaker 3: deaths compared to the precision of the attacks. But look,
39:34
Speaker 3: let's stay on the topic of the New York mayors
39:37
Speaker 3: are and mum Danny because he sparked outrage after posting
39:41
Speaker 3: a photo of himself hosting Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion,
39:45
Speaker 3: the mayor's residence.
39:46
Speaker 17: Now.
39:47
Speaker 3: Khalil is one of America's most prominent anti Israel activists,
39:51
Speaker 3: and he's currently facing deportation over claims that he's a
39:56
Speaker 3: mass supporter. Mum Danny captioned the photo for Mahmoud Khalil.
40:01
Speaker 3: This past year has been marked by profound hardshipt and
40:05
Speaker 3: by profound courage. Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmood,
40:10
Speaker 3: Nora and their son Dean to Gracie Mansion to break
40:13
Speaker 3: our fast together. Mamood is a New Yorker and he
40:16
Speaker 3: belongs in New York City and Army. This comes after
40:19
Speaker 3: mum Donnie's wife was exposed for liking a number of
40:22
Speaker 3: social media posts celebrating Hamas's massacre of Jews in Israel
40:27
Speaker 3: on October seven. I got to say, this all just
40:29
Speaker 3: makes me feel sick and sick for New Yorkers who
40:32
Speaker 3: have this guy as their leader.
40:35
Speaker 10: Yeah.
40:35
Speaker 18: Well, mum Donney's wife is certainly a very sick woman,
40:38
Speaker 18: there's no question about that.
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Speaker 10: But this is all tracks, right, doesn't it. I mean,
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Speaker 10: you're talking about mum.
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Speaker 18: Danni who uh, after the an Ices attack in his city, right,
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Speaker 18: not far from where he's lived, spent the time initially
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Speaker 18: talking about how terrible it was about the protesters, right,
40:55
Speaker 18: and not spending time talking about these Ice inspired attacks
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Speaker 18: and his the city.
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Speaker 10: This tracks.
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Speaker 18: This is what globalized the Intifada really means. When you
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Speaker 18: have Intifadas and Jihada supporters, you're not just vocally supporting
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Speaker 18: them like he has done obviously and his wife does
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Speaker 18: over and over again. He has them in the in
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Speaker 18: the Gracie mansion as his guest.
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Speaker 10: Right. Totally tracks. Yeah.
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Speaker 18: I wonder if any of Mamdani supporters will give them pause.
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Speaker 10: Probably not.
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Speaker 18: This is probably exactly what they voted for, right, globalized
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Speaker 18: INTIFA is exactly what it looks like. So yeah, I
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Speaker 18: think this kind of tracks of what this guy is,
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Speaker 18: what he stands for, what he supports. And I'm sorry, guys,
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Speaker 18: this is what you voted for us, what you get.
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Speaker 3: That's true too. I mean he did show who he
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Speaker 3: was during the campaign as well and before that. So
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Speaker 3: Amy Horowitz, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 10: It was a pleasure.
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Speaker 3: After the break, Woopy Goldberg claims on The View, Trump
41:53
Speaker 3: started the war in Iran to distract from the Epstein
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Speaker 3: Files and Nancy Guffrie's disappearance. I'll discuss that with Alex
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Speaker 3: Stein next. Welcome back. Let's bring in us comedian Alex Stein. Now, Alex,
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Speaker 3: good to see you. Let's start with the ladies of
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Speaker 3: the far left talk fest that is The View. Co
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Speaker 3: host Woopy Goldberg has alleged Donald Trump started the war
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Speaker 3: in Iran to distract the public from the Nancy Guthrie
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Speaker 3: disappearance and the Epstein Files. Take a look.
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Speaker 16: Every day is something new, and it's you know, I
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Speaker 16: was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, well, okay,
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Speaker 16: why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's
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Speaker 16: going on. Then why haven't we not been taught? Why
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Speaker 16: have we not been talking about the Epstein files, because
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Speaker 16: that's still there. This has meant to get us so
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Speaker 16: worked up that we are unable to see anything out.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Alex, I've heard of the Epstein conspiracies around
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Speaker 3: Trump which have had no basis, but I haven't heard
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Speaker 3: him being linked to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. This is real
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Speaker 3: elite conspiracy theory level here.
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Speaker 21: No, I mean, it's ridiculous because if we want to
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Speaker 21: get into conspiracies and the recent Jevery Epstein leagues, Woopy
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Speaker 21: Goldberg was asking to use Jeffy Epstein's private jet to
43:23
Speaker 21: go to a charity event. So if anybody you know,
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Speaker 21: we shouldn't be talking about the Epstein files, there should
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Speaker 21: be Whoopi Goldberg that should be hiding it. And let's
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Speaker 21: be real, a war is going to take all of
43:32
Speaker 21: our attention because it's a global matter. So it just
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Speaker 21: sounds very disingenuous, and it seems like she wants to
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Speaker 21: keep on talking about just slop, you know, propaganda, and
43:41
Speaker 21: let's be real again. I hate to say it, but
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Speaker 21: I don't think Nancy guthrough is probably still with us,
43:45
Speaker 21: and I hope I'm wrong, but she's eighty four years old.
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Speaker 21: She was kidnapped without any of her medication, and it's
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Speaker 21: a sad reality. But you know, I just think it's
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Speaker 21: a you know, it's a tough situation. But I think
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Speaker 21: the war should be our focus right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And it is a very sad story. But
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Speaker 3: to suggest that he started a war to distract from
44:03
Speaker 3: that is just so out there, Alex. Some Cubans are
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Speaker 3: now calling on Donald Trump to do for them what
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Speaker 3: he's done for Iranians, or what he is doing for
44:14
Speaker 3: them and trying to get regime change, and what he
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Speaker 3: did for Venezuelan's facing a severe lack of food, electricity,
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Speaker 3: and medical care, they are pleading with the President to
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Speaker 3: liberate them. To Cuban dissident pedro Quiala comentara, look, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to butcher his name. I'm not even gonna try it.
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Speaker 3: He's a Cuban dissident, and he's told the New York
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Speaker 3: Post I'm not a religious person, but I pray to
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Speaker 3: God for Donald Trump. He is our only hope for freedom, Alex.
44:43
Speaker 3: Who would have thought that the man that the left
44:46
Speaker 3: demonized as a racist bigot would be seen as a
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Speaker 3: figure of hope for marginalized people around the world.
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Speaker 21: Well, you know, I hope Trump does help about Cuba.
44:57
Speaker 21: You know, I love big booty Latinas, and if that
44:59
Speaker 21: needs more, bigooty Latinas are going to be here on
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Speaker 21: American soil, I'm okay with it. And you know, let's
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Speaker 21: be real. The people of Cuba, they have been held
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Speaker 21: back by their leadership. And you know, I don't know
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Speaker 21: if we go there and drop bombs, I hope it
45:11
Speaker 21: would be more like Venezuela, where it could just be
45:13
Speaker 21: in and out type situation. But really, at the end
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Speaker 21: of the day, these people are suffering and they any
45:18
Speaker 21: leadership that's going to help them out. I think Donald
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Speaker 21: Trump is probably their only hope.
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Speaker 3: We'll seem that way for some of them. Let's turn
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Speaker 3: our attention now to the ongoing anti ICE protests, and
45:29
Speaker 3: a warning some of graphic footage is coming up. A
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Speaker 3: protester accidentally lit himself on fire during a Portland rally
45:37
Speaker 3: while trying to set alight an American flag, as onlookers
45:41
Speaker 3: branded him an idiot alex. I suppose some people will
45:45
Speaker 3: still find a way to blame Ice for this too, though, Well.
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Speaker 21: You know, this to me is the perfect example of
45:53
Speaker 21: fool around and find out And that guy wanted to
45:56
Speaker 21: burn the flag and the flag got him back. So
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Speaker 21: you know, really it's poetic justice in my point of view.
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Speaker 21: And I hope the guy's okay. I don't want anybody
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Speaker 21: to get heard, but you know, you play with fires,
46:06
Speaker 21: sometimes you're going to get burned.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a reason that saying exists, isn't there? And
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Speaker 3: I think he was okay in the end. I think
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Speaker 3: he was filmed walking off, so that is thankful at least.
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Speaker 3: Before you go, Alex, I wanted to get your thoughts
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Speaker 3: on this report in the Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump
46:22
Speaker 3: is said to have asked guests during a recent dinner
46:25
Speaker 3: at Mara Lago whether JD. Vance or Marco Rubio should
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Speaker 3: run in twenty twenty eight, and the guests overwhelmingly applauded
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Speaker 3: for Rubio. Does that surprise you?
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Speaker 19: You know?
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Speaker 21: And not really. I think Rubio has actually done pretty
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Speaker 21: good in his leadership role. But you know what really
46:43
Speaker 21: makes me sad, it's a six month anniversary of Charlie
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Speaker 21: Kirk's assassination, and I think Charlie Kirk would have been
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Speaker 21: the best candidate for president. And I know that he
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Speaker 21: was young, but you know, he was really holding together
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Speaker 21: the whole Conservative New movement and the fact that he's gone,
46:56
Speaker 21: it just feels like there's a huge divide. So, yeah,
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Speaker 21: I do think Rubio is probably you know, he's in
47:01
Speaker 21: Calshi or all those betting sites. I think he's the
47:03
Speaker 21: you know, he's about to usurp fans when it comes
47:06
Speaker 21: to you know, the betting market. So I think he
47:08
Speaker 21: has a great chance. But I just, you know, it
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Speaker 21: kills me and makes me sick that we just don't
47:14
Speaker 21: have Charlie Kirk here at this any point.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one tragic event that we spoke you
47:20
Speaker 3: and I afterwards. I know he was a friend of
47:23
Speaker 3: yours as well, and it's been you know, a hard time,
47:29
Speaker 3: especially within the MAGA movement since he left. And this
47:33
Speaker 3: is a question without notice really, Alex, but we've seen
47:36
Speaker 3: this division in the MAGA movement where that there's been
47:39
Speaker 3: these attacks on Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, from people like
47:45
Speaker 3: Candice Owens and a lot of people using the tragedy
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Speaker 3: of his death to cause it so divide within the party.
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Speaker 3: How do you see what's happening at the moment.
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Speaker 21: Well, it's it's horrible.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it really is.
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Speaker 21: And Canis Owens, you know, I've said this on this program.
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Speaker 21: You know, a lot of her attention towards you know,
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Speaker 21: Erica is basically because Canas probably didn't want to be
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Speaker 21: the CEO. But I think that Cannas wants to be
48:11
Speaker 21: the face of Turning Point, or wanted to be the
48:13
Speaker 21: face of Turning Point, and she sees Erica being the
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Speaker 21: face of it. And I think a lot of it
48:17
Speaker 21: is jealousy. And I'm not trying to call you out,
48:19
Speaker 21: but women can be very caddy to other women, and
48:21
Speaker 21: I think this is a perfect example of another woman
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Speaker 21: attacking a woman when it's all unnecessary. Erica Kirk did
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Speaker 21: nothing wrong. Erica Kirk had no planning in her husband's death.
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Speaker 21: That's ridiculous. And I've seen the clips of Candace. I've
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Speaker 21: seen no evidence that would point to any involvement from
48:37
Speaker 21: Erica Kirk. So it's ludicrous.
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Speaker 8: I hate it.
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Speaker 21: I don't think, you know, Candas should be censored. I'm
48:42
Speaker 21: a First Amendment absolutist, free speech absolutist, but I just
48:46
Speaker 21: don't like it for the movement. I think it's it's
48:48
Speaker 21: going to kill the MAGA movement entirely if we don't,
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Speaker 21: you know, I guess come together somehow.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's just sad to see her with such a
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Speaker 3: huge following just perpetuate these conspiracy sees about someone who
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Speaker 3: is so loved and aggrieving. Widow, Alex Stein, thank you
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Speaker 3: so much for your time and your personal insights appreciated.
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Speaker 3: As always, that's it from me. Up next is Newsnight.