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Speaker 1: Kim is the gold reform It.
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Speaker 2: Well, good evening and welcome to the Bolt Report. I'm
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Speaker 2: James Macpherson coming up tonight. An Islamic preacher found guilty
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Speaker 2: of breaching discrimination laws, but only when the Jewish community
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Speaker 2: took him to court after police declined. To the number
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Speaker 2: of Americans who say they're proud of their country, it's
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Speaker 2: an all time low. I'll unpack that with Sean Spicer.
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Speaker 2: The Albanesi government went two years without receiving any official
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Speaker 2: update from our military on their battle readiness.
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Speaker 3: I tell you who is ready.
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Speaker 2: Matt Canavan will fire up, and Keith Urban hangs up
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Speaker 2: on radio announcers after they ask intimate questions about his wife,
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Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman. I'll ask our panel whether he's a gentleman
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Speaker 2: or if he's just too sensitive. But first we finally
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Speaker 2: have clarity on when our prime minister will meet with
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Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump. Anthony Albanezi to Sky News this morning.
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Speaker 2: But he'll meet with Donald Trump just as soon as
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Speaker 2: the meeting he hasn't scheduled actually gets scheduled. It's the
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Speaker 2: diplomatic equivalent of promising to win the lottery just as
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Speaker 2: soon as the numbers cooperate.
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Speaker 4: When we have a meeting, We'll have a meeting, and
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Speaker 4: when it's scheduled, that will occur.
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Speaker 2: It's like watching someone in the friend zone insists they're
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Speaker 2: just waiting for the right moment and don't tell me.
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Speaker 2: Anthony Albanezi is not a little sensitive about it. Check
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Speaker 2: out his reaction when it was suggested that Penny Wong
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Speaker 2: might be able to play matchmaker while she's in Washington
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Speaker 2: this week.
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Speaker 4: Penny Wong's meeting is with foreign ministers. I expect her
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Speaker 4: to have a meeting with her co foreign ministers, including
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Speaker 4: Marco Rubio, at the Quad, along with the foreign ministers
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Speaker 4: of Japan and India, just as I'll have a meeting
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Speaker 4: with the leaders of the four countries involved in the
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Speaker 4: Quad the other three when the Quad meeting is held
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Speaker 4: in India in coming months.
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Speaker 2: He fairly bristled at the suggestion his foreign minister might
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Speaker 2: have more sway than he does. Albanezi insisted, I'm the leader,
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Speaker 2: which in this case means waiting quietly by the phone
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Speaker 2: for a call from Donald Trump that may never come.
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Speaker 2: And again, if you don't think elban Ezi is sensitive
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Speaker 2: about the fact he can't get a meeting with Trump.
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Speaker 2: Watch how fast he changes the subject. You pivots so fast,
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised he didn't pull a hamstring.
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Speaker 4: Today is an important day for the government's priorities, which
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Speaker 4: are July one delivering increased cost of living relief, just
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Speaker 4: as we said we would, So today an extra two
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Speaker 4: weeks paid perenal leaf, super paid on pai pernal leaf
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Speaker 4: for the first time paid prack for people undertaking to
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Speaker 4: be a teacher or a nurse.
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Speaker 2: Talk about a masterclass in political misdirection. When will I
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Speaker 2: meet with the US President? Well, I'm so glad you
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Speaker 2: raised the topic of paid parental leave. The PM was
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Speaker 2: asked again, when will he meet with Donald Trump?
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Speaker 4: We'll see each other a lot in the last months
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Speaker 4: of the year. That's when summit season occurs. Whether Australia
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Speaker 4: and the United States are both members, of course, of
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Speaker 4: the G twenty of the Quad of APEC, we'll see
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Speaker 4: each other quite a lot in coming months.
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Speaker 3: They'll meet in summit season. That clears that up.
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Speaker 2: The Prime Minister insists proximity equals diplomacy, which is a
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Speaker 2: bit like saying you've spoken to Taylor Swift because you're
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Speaker 2: at Sydney Airport. When her plane landed in Australia. I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure that bumping into Trump in a hallway between
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Speaker 2: Canape's and keynote speeches qualifies as strategic engagement. But hey,
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Speaker 2: if loitering in the same conference venue counts as foreign policy,
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Speaker 2: will elbows practically, s Winston Churchill. Of course, Anthony Albaneze
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Speaker 2: could always go to the White House. The leader of
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Speaker 2: Jordan has done it, the leader of El Salvador has
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Speaker 2: done it, the Canadian leader, the UK leader, the Irish leader,
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Speaker 2: of the Norwegian to the Indian leader, and the Japanese leader.
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Speaker 3: They've all made the trip.
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Speaker 2: It's not as if Trump isn't meeting with anyone. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's the case that he's not meeting with just anyone,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Anthony Albenese insists that he's
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Speaker 2: investing in relationships.
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Speaker 4: We're investing in our relationships. Our relationships in this region
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Speaker 4: are very important with Indonesia. The increased relationship that we
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Speaker 4: have with Papu New Guinea as well, the announcements that
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Speaker 4: we're made with Tavalu and Nauru important relationships for the
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Speaker 4: Indo Pacific region. We are doing all of that and
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Speaker 4: making an enormous difference.
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Speaker 2: It's the international equivalent of saying, you know you couldn't
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Speaker 2: get invited to the captain's table, but hey, you've got
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Speaker 2: great rapport with the kitchen staff. Pacific island nations are important.
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Speaker 2: I'm not disputing that, but you can't defend Australia with coconuts.
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Speaker 2: Pretending you don't trump because you've got tavalu is like
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Speaker 2: boasting about your umbrella collection during a missile strike. There
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Speaker 2: are some relationships, however, that Anthony ALBINIZI is not so
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Speaker 2: keen to boast about.
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Speaker 5: Is China being prioritized over the US at the moment.
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Speaker 3: I know you've got a trip to Beijing coming up, sir.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 2: It was the kind of answer to expect from a
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Speaker 2: teenager court. Sneaking in after curfew, apparently flying to Beijing
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Speaker 2: to smile politely for the cameras while dodging questions about
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Speaker 2: human rights is not prioritizing China.
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Speaker 3: It's just engagement.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Washington remains an unscheduled hope marked in the calendar,
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Speaker 2: somewhere between not yet and don't hold your breath. Elbanezi
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Speaker 2: assures us both relationships are equally important. We I've got
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Speaker 2: to say, it's hard to believe that when one gets
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Speaker 2: the red carpet and the other one gets ghosted. In
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Speaker 2: Elbanesi's world, diplomacy is less about who you do and
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Speaker 2: don't meet, and more about how confidently you pretend that
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Speaker 2: none of it matters. Well, King Charles is now officially
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Speaker 2: in charge of saving the planet.
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Speaker 3: No, this is not satire.
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Speaker 2: Buckingham Palace today confirmed in their annual report that the
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Speaker 2: monarch's job description had been amended to include providing leadership
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Speaker 2: on quote environmental sustainability, presumably with a scepter in one
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Speaker 2: hand and a reusable shopping bag in the other. The
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Speaker 2: Palace report says the King will be and the gain
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Speaker 2: i quote taking action to protect climate and nature in
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Speaker 2: everything we do, and encouraging others to do the same. Well,
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Speaker 2: this is the first time a British royal has been
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Speaker 2: responsible for saving the entire planet. Previously, they were only
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Speaker 2: expected to save Prince Andrew from public appearances and legal depositions.
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Speaker 2: But fear not, King Charles is taking his role as
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Speaker 2: climate messiah very seriously. The Palace proudly announced it had
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Speaker 2: and i quote worked to restore or upcycle over sixty
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Speaker 2: items of furniture. Nothing says we feel your pain to
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Speaker 2: a working class brit like giving a distressed level lounge
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Speaker 2: a second chance at life, but it gets better. The
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Speaker 2: same report also boasts that the Pallace spent six hundred
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Speaker 2: and five thousand pounds relandscaping a rose garden that wins
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Speaker 2: a castle quote using more sustainable plants. Nothing screams climate
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Speaker 2: hero like having your subjects pay to relandscape the rose garden.
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Speaker 2: Britain's biggest threat isn't mass illegal immigration or a crumbling economy. No, No,
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Speaker 2: it's unsustainable shrubbery. Charles isn't so much defending the realm
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Speaker 2: as defending the rhotodendrons one royal pedal at a time.
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Speaker 2: To be honest, this nonsense tells us more about the
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Speaker 2: state of the monarchy than it does about the climate.
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Speaker 2: Once upon a time, kings defended empires. King net zero
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Speaker 2: will defend compost heaps and recycling bins. Meanwhile, every day
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Speaker 2: Briton's condemned to live in glorified shoe boxes with smart
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Speaker 2: meters and guilt of being lectured on sustainability by a
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Speaker 2: man whose carbon footprint record as its own postcode. I
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Speaker 2: especially liked this quote from the King's Annual Report. Sustainability
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Speaker 2: remained a focus for the household, with initiatives including the
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Speaker 2: electrification of the official car fleet. Most Britons managed to
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Speaker 2: sustain themselves without a fleet, official or otherwise. The oldest
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Speaker 2: monarchy in the world is shrinking itself to become a
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Speaker 2: Greenpeace branch office. King Charles won't save the planet, but
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Speaker 2: in trying to, he might just lose his country. Well,
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Speaker 2: as I said, Anthony Albanesi appears to have zero relationship
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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump, and the consequences are coming home faster
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Speaker 2: than the hyposomic missile, which is ironic because we might
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Speaker 2: not be getting those either. There are reports today that
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Speaker 2: a seven billion dollar order for missiles placed by our
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Speaker 2: government last year could be canceled by the White House
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Speaker 2: and the weapons redirected to allies who were prepared to
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Speaker 2: sign up to Trump's defense funding agenda, something Anthony Albanesi
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Speaker 2: has deadfastly rejected. Joining me now is National Senator Matt Canavan. Matt,
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Speaker 2: there's a global shortage of missiles due to wars in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East and in Europe, and now we look
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Speaker 2: like will be short of missiles, not due to technology,
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Speaker 2: but due to diplomacy failures on the part of our government.
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Speaker 7: Well, look, this is a very serious issue for our
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Speaker 7: nation now, James. I mean the Prime minister's excuses this
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Speaker 7: morning that he would meet with the President. When he
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Speaker 7: meets with him, It's a bit like me telling my.
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Speaker 1: Wife I'll mow the lawn. When I mowed the lawn.
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Speaker 1: She's not going to be very happy with that answer.
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Speaker 7: And I don't think this trained people should be happy
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Speaker 7: with the Prime minister right now.
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Speaker 1: We live in very very concerning times.
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Speaker 7: We've all seen on our TVs perhaps how close to
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Speaker 7: the world was to a wider war in the Middle East.
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Speaker 7: We have seen almost interminable war in Eastern Europe for
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Speaker 7: the last few years, and we have huge geostrategic issues
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Speaker 7: in our own region because of those Middle East conflicts.
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Speaker 7: On some measures, China has more aircraft carries in the
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Speaker 7: Pacific than the United States fleet does. For the first
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Speaker 7: time in history, a strike carrier group that immits strike
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Speaker 7: carrier group was sent to the Middle East during the
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Speaker 7: last few weeks. And it's absolutely essential that our Prime
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Speaker 7: Minister of Australia, one of the biggest powers, biggest militaries
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Speaker 7: in this region, meets with the United States President to
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Speaker 7: discuss the strategic and defense concerns of our country, because,
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Speaker 7: as I say, we watch a lot on TV about
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Speaker 7: what's an Eastern Europe in the Middle East, but there
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Speaker 7: is a lot going on in our region and that
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Speaker 7: needs to be put front and center of the center
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Speaker 7: of the President, and our primester is failing to do.
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Speaker 3: That absolutely well.
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Speaker 2: I want to draw your attention to an extraordinary port
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Speaker 2: in the Australian Financial Review today revealing the Albenezy government
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Speaker 2: didn't receive any formal updates on the readiness of our
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Speaker 2: military for more than two years. The reports are supposed
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Speaker 2: to be delivered every six months. Escathing order, the General's
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Speaker 2: report said Defense Minister Richard Marles had instead been kept
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Speaker 2: up to date via conversations.
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Speaker 3: Can you believe this?
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Speaker 7: It is unbelievable and I think the Defense Minister is
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Speaker 7: suppos to be sacked over this. I mean, and the
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Speaker 7: buck's got to stop with him. I don't know what
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Speaker 7: the typical rules are and don't really care whether it's
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Speaker 7: six months or three months, but our Defense minister should
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Speaker 7: be finding out over a two year period.
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Speaker 1: Are we ready? Are we ready for conflict?
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Speaker 7: As I say, particularly given the geopolitical circumstances we face
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Speaker 7: right now. The defense Meston needs to answer, why hasn't
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Speaker 7: he asked his own department for a report, whether it
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Speaker 7: was required or not. Why has he asked them for
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Speaker 7: a report about our defense readiness?
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Speaker 2: Well, Donald Trump has found an unlikely ally in the
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Speaker 2: Albanezy government, Kevin Rudd. Would you believe it, our ambassador
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Speaker 2: to the United States is suddenly full of praise for
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Speaker 2: the very man he once warned, warned that was a
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Speaker 2: traitor to the West.
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Speaker 3: Have a listened to what he said?
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Speaker 8: But again, to give President Trump his due. Yes, he
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Speaker 8: has always said that he does not accept the proposition
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Speaker 8: that any US ally should be free loading. So against
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Speaker 8: when you've had various European states hovering around, you know,
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Speaker 8: one or less, to give the president he's due. This
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Speaker 8: has been pressure successfully applied.
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Speaker 2: Now the irony here is Rudd is praising Trump forgetting
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Speaker 2: allies to spend more money on defense while our own
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Speaker 2: government refuses to the government he's representing.
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Speaker 7: Well, Kevin Rudd's being what's the word diplomatic, And look,
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Speaker 7: he's probably doing a pretty good job, and good luck
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Speaker 7: to him. But again I come back to the buckstops
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Speaker 7: with the Prime Minister, and why isn't the Prime Minister
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Speaker 7: being able to use that kind of language to describe
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Speaker 7: President Trump to help getting these good graces to serve
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Speaker 7: and further the interests of our country. That's his number
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Speaker 7: one job, to defend Australia. And it would make a
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Speaker 7: lot of sense to give the President a few bouquets
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Speaker 7: over the past week or so because what's happening at
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Speaker 7: East is remarkable and President Trump's played a big role
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Speaker 7: in that.
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Speaker 1: He might not like doing that.
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Speaker 7: I think anthieo Beneath would have to swallow hard to
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Speaker 7: have to compliment President Trump. But as I say, I
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Speaker 7: think that's in our nation's best interest, and Kevin Rud's
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Speaker 7: doing that, why can't the Primissier do it?
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Speaker 3: I want to flick to ticks.
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Speaker 2: In Queensland, former Queen's Land Premier Anastasia Palaget has conceded
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Speaker 2: that green hydrogen production is too hard staking the renewable
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Speaker 2: fuel doesn't stack up.
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Speaker 3: Here's what she said this afternoon.
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Speaker 9: Have listened hydrogen is proving to be in the too
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Speaker 9: hard basket. The price is not right, so people are
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Speaker 9: looking around solar batteries. Conversations around gas, making more gas
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Speaker 9: supply available domestically. Energy is perhaps one of the most
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Speaker 9: critical issues on the agenda. Hydrogen is just too hard
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Speaker 9: at the moment, and until those prices come down, I
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Speaker 9: don't think we'll see those projects taking off the ground.
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Speaker 3: Matt.
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Speaker 2: That is very different to what she was saying when
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Speaker 2: she was the premier.
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Speaker 7: Well, you've got to give the Labor Party marks for shutzpah, right.
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Speaker 7: I mean, there was just a couple of years ago
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Speaker 7: she was Premier of this day. She raided the Labor
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Speaker 7: Party raided a rainy day fund worth millions of dollars
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Speaker 7: to waste all now we know waste on hydrogen and
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Speaker 7: we're all telling us this is the future. These running
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Speaker 7: day funds were put aside because all of the col
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Speaker 7: royalty revenues the state got.
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Speaker 1: They knew they were going to lose money to the.
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Speaker 7: GST redistribution, which we've since found out, so put money
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Speaker 7: aside for that instead of leaving it there for When
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Speaker 7: that happened, the Party went and raided that money and
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Speaker 7: gave it to the likes of Twiggy Forest to build
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Speaker 7: a white elephant in Gladston. I went and visited that
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Speaker 7: white elephant last week. There is no one there. Basically
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Speaker 7: there's three or four people who worked there now that
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Speaker 7: used to be ninety and it is a complete and
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Speaker 7: uto travesty.
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Speaker 1: We should get to the bottom. The Australian people deserve to.
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Speaker 7: Know how much has been wasted on hydrogen by labor, government,
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Speaker 7: state and federal. We need to know that. Why aren't
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Speaker 7: we getting that money ending that money back from the
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Speaker 7: likes of Twiggy Forest. And it should stop. It should
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Speaker 7: all stop now. The federal government still has nine billion
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Speaker 7: dollars in our budget of your money going towards this.
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Speaker 1: It needs to end.
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Speaker 2: It was an extraordinary admission by Anastasia Peloge this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: The mind absolutely boggles. Matt Canavan, thanks so much for
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Speaker 2: joining me tonight. Appreciate your time as always well. Millions
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Speaker 2: of residents across in New South Wales have been worn.
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Speaker 2: They're in the danger zone of a fast approaching and
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Speaker 2: quite severe storm. The New South Wales SEES has told
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Speaker 2: Sydney side is near the coastline to stay indoors as
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Speaker 2: intense rain begins to hit. Joining me now from Wollongong
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Speaker 2: in New South Wales is Sydney reporter Crystal woo Crystal,
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Speaker 2: thanks so much for your time tonight. You've been out
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Speaker 2: braving the weather today. I've got to ask you, how
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Speaker 2: is it and what should Sidney siders be expecting over
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Speaker 2: the next few days.
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Speaker 5: Well, good evening to you, James. It hasn't stopped raining
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Speaker 5: here since last night and as you can probably see
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Speaker 5: behind me, big droplets of rain still continuing and we
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Speaker 5: are expecting the heavy rainfall to continue right throughout the
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Speaker 5: night and into the morning as well. As well as
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Speaker 5: this heavy rain destructive when gusts, trees, power lines broken down.
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Speaker 5: This is just one of the many warning from the
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Speaker 5: SEES to stay indoors. The New South Wales central coast
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Speaker 5: residents are also impacted. Four emergency warnings have been issued
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Speaker 5: for residents near the coastline due to a coastal erosion.
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Speaker 5: Some residents have been told to evacuate. Travelers have also
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Speaker 5: been impacted by this low pressure system. Twenty two flights
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Speaker 5: coming out of Sydney domestically have been canceled so far,
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Speaker 5: thirty two flights domestically coming into Sydney have been canceled,
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Speaker 5: so as you can imagine some very frustrated residents as
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Speaker 5: they wait to return home.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 5: This low pressure system is expected to continue until at
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Speaker 5: least Thursday, So until then we will continue to see
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Speaker 5: this heavy rain, damaging winds and residents telling them to
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Speaker 5: put the sandbags in, put them near their doors so
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Speaker 5: that that avoids the water from coming in. They've also
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Speaker 5: been told to make sure that their cars aren't parked
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Speaker 5: under trees, as this destructive winds can bring trees down.
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Speaker 2: As you said, Crystal, this storm affects not just the
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Speaker 2: people of New South Wales, but with so many flights
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Speaker 2: being canceled into and out of Sydney, it really is
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Speaker 2: affecting people right around the country. The good thing is
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Speaker 2: there does seem to have been plenty of warning for
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Speaker 2: residence to get ready, so hopefully, no matter how bad
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Speaker 2: this is, most people will get through it. Okay, we
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time tonight, thanks for updating us.
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Speaker 3: We'll stick around.
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Speaker 2: Because coming up after the break, the number of Americans
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Speaker 2: who say they're proud of their country it's an all
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Speaker 2: time low. And the Democrats will they get a lesson
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Speaker 2: in biology? Sean Spicer joins me. In just a moment, Well,
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Speaker 2: the US Senator has begun voting on Donald Trump's big
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Speaker 2: beautiful bill that's his economic plan. But not before the
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Speaker 2: entire nine hundred and forty pages were read from the
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Speaker 2: Senate floor. Senate Minority Leader Duck Schumer demanded the entire
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Speaker 2: bill was read to senators and broadcast live on c
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Speaker 2: SPAN every word in a bid to stall debate. The
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Speaker 2: hour's long reading stunt was peak DC theater, wasting taxpayer
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Speaker 2: time to grandstand instead of addressing the bill's actual content.
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Speaker 3: I had to laugh, though.
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Speaker 2: The top democrats insistence on the whole bill being read
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Speaker 2: meant his team had to sit and listen to a
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Speaker 2: real definition of female and male.
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Speaker 10: Purposes of paragraph three, the term female means an individual
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Speaker 10: who naturally has had, will have, or would have but
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Speaker 10: for a developmental, orgenetic anomaly or historical accident. The reproductive
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Speaker 10: system that at some pointduces, transports, and utilized eggs for fertilization.
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Speaker 6: Five Male.
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Speaker 10: For purposes of paragraph three, the term male means an
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Speaker 10: individual who naturally has had, will have, or would have
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Speaker 10: but for a developmental origenetic anomaly or historical accident. The
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Speaker 10: reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, and utilizes
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Speaker 10: sperm for fertilization.
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Speaker 3: See so there you go.
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer accidentally delivers a biology lesson to his own side.
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Speaker 2: It's the one that none of them burst into flame
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Speaker 2: on the Senate floor. Joining me now is former White
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Speaker 2: House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Sean, thanks for your time
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Speaker 2: this evening. If Trump's big, beautiful bill is passed, what
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Speaker 2: does that mean for the USA? Aside from the fact
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Speaker 2: that Democrats obviously now understand what a male and a
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Speaker 2: female is.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, by the way, they can't even pull stunts off. Well, right,
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Speaker 11: this to me. When you're in the minority, James, that's
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Speaker 11: your number one goal is to be the opposition party
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Speaker 11: to sort of call them out. And they can't even
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Speaker 11: do stunts. Well, this backfire to your point, Like they're
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Speaker 11: out there reading the definition of a male and a female.
19:40
Speaker 11: They've got to go through all the provisions of the bill.
19:42
Speaker 11: And that gets to your question. Well, two things that
19:44
Speaker 11: are important to understand about this bill. If it doesn't pass,
19:48
Speaker 11: two thirds of Americans will see a tax increase, So
19:52
Speaker 11: that's the starting point. Then once it does pass, I
19:55
Speaker 11: think we're going to see some real solid economic growth
19:58
Speaker 11: north of three percent our country for the first time
20:01
Speaker 11: since the nineteen nineties. You're talking about deficit reduction measures
20:06
Speaker 11: that are in there a secure and stronger border. So
20:09
Speaker 11: the irony of this is I think the Democrats think
20:12
Speaker 11: that they're little backfiring failed stunts are sound strategy. In fact,
20:18
Speaker 11: I believe that the longer this bill is able to
20:22
Speaker 11: sort of marinate in the US economy in advance of
20:26
Speaker 11: the midterm elections next year, this is going to be
20:30
Speaker 11: a huge win, not just for President Trump, but I
20:33
Speaker 11: think for the Republican Party as they continue to defy
20:36
Speaker 11: odds to maintain both chambers of Congress.
20:40
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about a new Gallup poll
20:43
Speaker 2: showing a record low number of Americans are extremely very
20:47
Speaker 2: proud to be American, only fifty eight percent of respondents.
20:51
Speaker 2: That's nine points down on last year and five points
20:54
Speaker 2: down on the previous low in twenty twenty. But what
20:57
Speaker 2: stood out to me, Sean, was that the pole seemed
20:59
Speaker 2: to divide a long political lines. The level of national
21:02
Speaker 2: pride among Republicans it was around ninety two percent, but
21:05
Speaker 2: amongst Democrat voters only thirty six percent said they were
21:10
Speaker 2: proud to be American. And the other trend seems to
21:13
Speaker 2: be where the embracing of woke ideology and a decline
21:17
Speaker 2: in national pride go hand in hand.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
21:22
Speaker 11: In that poll, the two groups that really drove it
21:25
Speaker 11: down were Democrats and young Americans, and it sat on
21:29
Speaker 11: both fronts. One for young Americans, I truly am concerned
21:32
Speaker 11: about the impact of social media and our K through
21:35
Speaker 11: twelve education system. Here among Democrats, it is really concerning.
21:40
Speaker 11: And we saw this what is it two weeks ago
21:42
Speaker 11: now in America, we celebrated the US Armies two hundred
21:46
Speaker 11: and fiftieth anniversary. This was an opportunity to pay tribute
21:51
Speaker 11: to the over one million soldiers that have died and
21:54
Speaker 11: sacrifice to our country. Later this year we will celebrate
21:58
Speaker 11: the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and then.
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Speaker 6: Next year our country as a whole.
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Speaker 11: I feel like, for all of the protesting that these
22:06
Speaker 11: folks do and the talk about the Constitution, they should
22:09
Speaker 11: love America because it's the only place on earth that
22:12
Speaker 11: gives them the forum to say the stupid things that
22:14
Speaker 11: they do. If they really don't like it, then here's
22:18
Speaker 11: my suggestion.
22:19
Speaker 6: Leave.
22:20
Speaker 11: I think, frankly, at some point President Trump should support
22:24
Speaker 11: legislation that would give people a voucher to leave the
22:27
Speaker 11: country if they don't want to be here. We'll give
22:29
Speaker 11: them the money to travel somewhere else as long as
22:32
Speaker 11: they promise to never come back. If you don't find
22:34
Speaker 11: America the most amazing place on earth that gives you
22:39
Speaker 11: the right to express yourself, both in terms of opinion
22:44
Speaker 11: and religion in so many other ways, then don't stay.
22:48
Speaker 6: Leave.
22:48
Speaker 11: And I'm tired of these people who are out there
22:51
Speaker 11: bad mouth in the United States. You may not like
22:53
Speaker 11: one party or another, but at the end of the day,
22:56
Speaker 11: it's this country, our constitution, our system of government that
23:01
Speaker 11: allows people to protest, to express themselves freely, and it
23:07
Speaker 11: is the system of laws that so many around the
23:10
Speaker 11: world seek to come here for. So my message is simple.
23:14
Speaker 11: I'm saddened by those numbers, especially when I look at
23:17
Speaker 11: the number among young Americans, but with respect to older Democrats,
23:21
Speaker 11: my message is simple, if you don't like it, then leave.
23:26
Speaker 2: Well, Sean, let me give you an example of part
23:29
Speaker 2: of the problem. New York mayoral candidate Zohan Ma'm donnie
23:32
Speaker 2: have listened to him.
23:33
Speaker 12: We went on your website and realize there's a policy
23:36
Speaker 12: proposal that says your plan and I'm going to quote
23:39
Speaker 12: it for folks, is to shift the tax burden from
23:41
Speaker 12: over taxed homeowners and the outer boroughs to more expensive
23:45
Speaker 12: homes in richer and wider neighborhoods. Explain why you are
23:50
Speaker 12: bringing race into your tax proposal.
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Speaker 6: That is just an description of what we see right now.
23:56
Speaker 6: It's not driven by race.
23:57
Speaker 11: It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being
23:59
Speaker 11: under taxed for overtaxed.
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Speaker 2: This is a thirty three year old guy with very
24:03
Speaker 2: little life experience, smooth talking, but he's calling for white
24:07
Speaker 2: people to face higher taxes, for the interfarder against Israel
24:10
Speaker 2: to be globalized, and for rich people to be penalized.
24:13
Speaker 2: You'd think his policies would be toxic, but he won
24:16
Speaker 2: the Democratic primary in a canta. The mayoral election is
24:19
Speaker 2: on November four. What chance is he to become mayor
24:22
Speaker 2: of New York And what's the future of the city
24:25
Speaker 2: if someone like that is successful.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, there's a lot to impact there. Number One, I
24:31
Speaker 11: think he's the front runner, and no question about it.
24:33
Speaker 11: Being the Democratic nominee in New York is a big deal.
24:36
Speaker 11: I think Mayor Adams has an uphill up hill to climb.
24:43
Speaker 11: He's probably the only viable alternative right now that would
24:45
Speaker 11: require Republicans and Independence rallying behind him. But look, if
24:52
Speaker 11: you had to put money down, I'd say there's a
24:54
Speaker 11: better than not chance that he is the mayor elected
24:58
Speaker 11: in November of this year. That should be scary though,
25:01
Speaker 11: so Number one, if if you took out the word
25:04
Speaker 11: white and added black or Asian or any other ethnic group,
25:07
Speaker 11: there would be an outcry about racism. But you heard
25:11
Speaker 11: Kristin Welker there, and this is the beauty of what
25:14
Speaker 11: his candidacy is. In any other situation, that would be
25:17
Speaker 11: getting called out on his economic views that pull race
25:21
Speaker 11: into But the media in our country is probably mostly
25:25
Speaker 11: in line with him.
25:26
Speaker 6: Should they give him a pass? It's patty cake?
25:29
Speaker 11: Patty cake with these guys on the far progressive left,
25:32
Speaker 11: whether it's him or his colleague AOC just down the
25:35
Speaker 11: way in there in New York, elin Omar in Minnesota.
25:39
Speaker 11: The ridiculousness of this, and then you get to what
25:41
Speaker 11: would become of New York.
25:43
Speaker 6: Think about this.
25:43
Speaker 11: He wants to private he wants to government take over
25:46
Speaker 11: government control of supermarkets. He wants to defund the police
25:50
Speaker 11: so that when you call NYPD, instead of an armed
25:53
Speaker 11: officer coming there to take care of the situation, a
25:55
Speaker 11: social worker would show up, which I'm sure sends chills
25:58
Speaker 11: down the backs of every criminal in New York City.
26:01
Speaker 11: This is insane, and I still can't believe that Democrats
26:05
Speaker 11: are willing to embrace this guy and not call it out.
26:08
Speaker 11: I cannot believe we're at this place in the country
26:11
Speaker 11: where this guy wins. You know, when Republicans have in
26:14
Speaker 11: the past elected somebody outside the main street, the mainstream, rather,
26:19
Speaker 11: the calls have been far and wide to denounce the candidate,
26:22
Speaker 11: to not do it, And it's quite the opposite here.
26:24
Speaker 11: People are like, when are you going to endorse Mondami?
26:27
Speaker 11: When are you going to do an event with him?
26:29
Speaker 11: They encourage it because I think the difference in our
26:32
Speaker 11: country right now is that most of the media is
26:35
Speaker 11: actually sympathetic to many of his views.
26:40
Speaker 2: It's quite astonishing. Hey, Sean, just one more question. We're
26:43
Speaker 2: almost out of time. But on Monday, Benjaminette Yahoo will
26:48
Speaker 2: visit Donald Trump in the White House. What will be
26:50
Speaker 2: the focus of those talks. Obviously, the alliance and the
26:53
Speaker 2: friendship between the US president and the leader of Israel
26:57
Speaker 2: is very strong.
26:58
Speaker 3: A pretty important meeting on Monday, I would imagine.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's going to be two things.
27:03
Speaker 11: One the obvious focus is I Ran in the aftermath
27:06
Speaker 11: of the air strikes on those nuclear facilities in Iran,
27:12
Speaker 11: and what does the path look like going forward for
27:15
Speaker 11: the region and potential talks among those you know, US,
27:20
Speaker 11: Israel and Iran to make sure that they don't ever
27:22
Speaker 11: possess a nuclear weapons. So I think that's going to
27:25
Speaker 11: be the foremost. But the last time that the Prime
27:27
Speaker 11: Minister was in DC, I had the opportunity to meet
27:29
Speaker 11: with him, and trade is still something that's that's pretty
27:33
Speaker 11: high up on the list. We have a pretty decent
27:36
Speaker 11: trade relationship with Israel Prime mister Detna, who told me
27:40
Speaker 11: that he feels very confident that he can get a
27:42
Speaker 11: deal with President Trump, and I think they want to
27:45
Speaker 11: be among the first countries to announce it. So I
27:47
Speaker 11: think obviously the top three or four things on the
27:50
Speaker 11: agenda are going to be I Ran, I Ran, I Ran,
27:52
Speaker 11: and then we'll get to trade.
27:55
Speaker 3: Very good shown spots and so has it a light
27:58
Speaker 3: to check with you. Thanks for joining me this evening,
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Speaker 3: givebat thank you.
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Speaker 13: Well.
28:03
Speaker 2: Coming up after the break and Islamic preacher found guilty
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Speaker 2: of breaching discrimination laws, but only when the Jewish community
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Speaker 2: took him to court after police declined to are we
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Speaker 2: chatting with Caroline Marcus after this.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 2: A Sydney court has today found a radical Islamic preacher
28:23
Speaker 2: breached racial discrimination laws in a number of sermons he
28:26
Speaker 2: gave about Jews. Wassam Hadad had been taken to court
28:30
Speaker 2: for giving lectures in which he called Jews vile, treacherous
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Speaker 2: and the descendants of pigs and monkeys. His Justice Angus Stewart,
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Speaker 2: on why the lectures broke the law.
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Speaker 13: The imputations include age all tropes against Jewish people that
28:44
Speaker 13: are fundamentally racist and anti Semitic. They make perverse generalizations
28:48
Speaker 13: against Jewish people as a group. Jews in Australia in
28:53
Speaker 13: November twenty twenty three and thereafter would experience them to
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Speaker 13: be harassing and intimidating.
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Speaker 2: Your reporter, Caroline Marcus, joins me from the Federal Court
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Speaker 2: in Sydney. Caroline, what does this result mean?
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Speaker 14: Well, this is a landmark decision, James. It's really the
29:11
Speaker 14: first time an Islamic preacher has been brought before the
29:14
Speaker 14: courts and for anti semitism. So this will set a
29:18
Speaker 14: precedent for how other cases may be decided in the future.
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Speaker 14: For with some Hadad, the radical now hate preacher, we
29:28
Speaker 14: can call him that. In particular, this means that he
29:32
Speaker 14: will have to remove those offending speeches from the Internet,
29:36
Speaker 14: and he's also been given an order that he can't
29:39
Speaker 14: make similarly racist speeches again in the future. He's also
29:44
Speaker 14: been ordered to pay the legal costs of the Jewish
29:48
Speaker 14: group the Executive Council of Australian Jury, and that group
29:52
Speaker 14: says they will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Speaker 2: Well, as you said, this case will set a precedent
30:02
Speaker 2: about how instances of anti Semitism will be dealt with.
30:06
Speaker 2: But there's another precedent that's been potentially set here, and
30:10
Speaker 2: that is that the judge rule the disparagement of Zionism
30:15
Speaker 2: was disparagement of a philosophy or an ideology, not a race.
30:19
Speaker 2: But Caroline, that may be controversial, I guess for mainstream
30:21
Speaker 2: Jewish groups who maintain the overwhelming majority of Jews are Zionists.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 14: I mean that was the other aspect of this decision
30:31
Speaker 14: that really stood out for me, James, because ultimately how
30:35
Speaker 14: this might be interpreted is that disparagement of Zionism, whether
30:40
Speaker 14: it's calling Zionist terrorists or other awful sort of flurs,
30:45
Speaker 14: might be okay in the eyes of the law, because
30:49
Speaker 14: it's disparagement of an ideology or political belief and not
30:55
Speaker 14: a disparagement of a racial group, that being Jews. Now,
30:59
Speaker 14: that's just as you point out the fact that up
31:01
Speaker 14: to ninety percent of Jews support Zionism and count themselves
31:07
Speaker 14: as Zionists, the belief that Jews have the right to
31:11
Speaker 14: their homeland in the state of Israel. Now the judge
31:16
Speaker 14: has found that criticism of Israel is not considered racist
31:21
Speaker 14: in and of itself, fine, but criticism of Zionism and
31:25
Speaker 14: Zionists might be fair game as well, he's found.
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Speaker 2: Mister Hadad, who arrived late for the judgment, remained defiant
31:35
Speaker 2: despite the ruling against him. He addressed media via his lawyer,
31:39
Speaker 2: Let's have a listened to what he said.
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Speaker 15: Mister Hadad maintains that his sermons, delivered in the context
31:45
Speaker 15: of religious instruction and based on scriptural references, were never
31:49
Speaker 15: intended to insult any group in Australia on the basis
31:53
Speaker 15: of their ethnic identity. The words he spoke were those
31:57
Speaker 15: from the scripture, and he maintains that he has the
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Speaker 15: right to quote religious scripture as all parties do. The
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Speaker 15: court has found he has that right.
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Speaker 3: I'm keen to know what you made of those comments, Caroline.
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Speaker 14: Well, they seemed bizarre to me for a lawyer to make,
32:15
Speaker 14: because that was not the judgment that was handed down.
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Speaker 14: In fact, Justice Angus Stewart specifically said that he had
32:22
Speaker 14: not been asked to decide whether religious beliefs were a
32:27
Speaker 14: justification for preaching hate, and he pointed out as well
32:32
Speaker 14: the judge that both experts for both the defense and
32:39
Speaker 14: for the applicants the Jewish group had pointed out experts
32:43
Speaker 14: in Islamic scripture that there was nothing in the texts
32:47
Speaker 14: that are warranted being disparaging of Jews themselves and talking
32:53
Speaker 14: about negative characteristics and attributing them to all Jews, that
32:58
Speaker 14: included the expert mister Hadad himself shake Ibrahim. So it
33:04
Speaker 14: was curious that the lawyer made those remarks outside court. Clearly,
33:08
Speaker 14: the preacher has remained defiant in light of this verdict
33:12
Speaker 14: even before this Today, he posted on Sunday to his
33:17
Speaker 14: Instagram page that he considered that by Allah, he has
33:22
Speaker 14: already won this case He's frequently shown that he does
33:25
Speaker 14: not respect the courts. He's said as much blatantly to
33:30
Speaker 14: his social media followers. James, I mean every day that
33:34
Speaker 14: I've been at this trial, and today he's walked into
33:37
Speaker 14: the court late today it was seven minutes past the
33:40
Speaker 14: time the judgment started to be handed down. He's avoided
33:44
Speaker 14: bowing to the judge as his custom in the court.
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Speaker 14: So I don't know whether he's going to respect the
33:52
Speaker 14: order that's been made not to continue giving these kinds
33:55
Speaker 14: of speeches in the future. But the Jewish Group says
33:58
Speaker 14: that if he does so, they won't hesitate to bring
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Speaker 14: him back before the court for contempt.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to talk to you about that point,
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Speaker 2: because the case against mister Hadud was bought, as you said,
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Speaker 2: by the Executive Council of Australian Jury after New South
34:15
Speaker 2: Wales Police and Federal Police decided not to pursue charges.
34:20
Speaker 2: Or get to that in a second, let's have a
34:22
Speaker 2: listen to what the Council's Deputy President, Robert Goot had
34:24
Speaker 2: to say.
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Speaker 16: We brought this action to protect the safety of the
34:28
Speaker 16: Jewish community and to uphold its honor and integrity. We've
34:33
Speaker 16: been vindicated by the court today. Mister Haddud's fundamentally anti
34:38
Speaker 16: Semitic speeches, as we submitted, have been heard to be unlawful, Caroline.
34:45
Speaker 2: Jewish groups must be incredibly disappointed that they had to
34:48
Speaker 2: bring this case to court because the police would not.
34:53
Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 14: Both News South Welles and Federal Police investigated this preacher
34:58
Speaker 14: with Haddad over those speeches and decided ultimately not to
35:02
Speaker 14: pursue any charges. As you just heard there, the Jewish
35:06
Speaker 14: Group Executive Council of Australian Juries say they felt vindicated
35:11
Speaker 14: by today's decision. They say it shows that they would
35:14
Speaker 14: have been a case for authorities to bring and that
35:18
Speaker 14: the authorities had failed to protect the vulnerable members of
35:22
Speaker 14: the Jewish community, especially after those October seven terror attacks
35:27
Speaker 14: in Israel in the wake of which these speeches had
35:31
Speaker 14: been made back in November twenty twenty three. But they
35:34
Speaker 14: say it's difficult to know whether these hate speech laws
35:37
Speaker 14: and there's been a lot of discussion about this, particularly
35:40
Speaker 14: in New South Wales, whether they need to be strengthened
35:43
Speaker 14: because they were never tested in the first place by police.
35:46
Speaker 14: They didn't take them to court, didn't take him to
35:49
Speaker 14: court over that they had to take the action themselves,
35:53
Speaker 14: but ultimately today it proved to be the right decision for.
35:57
Speaker 2: Them or Caroline Marcus, your coverage of this court case
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Speaker 2: has been outstanding and I really appreciate you joining me tonight.
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Thanks so much, James.
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Speaker 1: Well.
36:10
Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, Keith Urban hangs up on
36:12
Speaker 2: radio announcers when they ask intimate questions about his wife,
36:16
Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman. Is he a gentleman or is he just
36:19
Speaker 2: too sensitive? My panel is up next, Welcome back to
36:25
Speaker 2: the program.
36:26
Speaker 11: Well.
36:26
Speaker 2: Country music star Keith Urban has hung up on an
36:29
Speaker 2: Adelaide radio station after they asked him how he felt
36:32
Speaker 2: about his wife, Nicole Kidman filming sex scenes with other men.
36:37
Speaker 2: Urban was chatting with Mixed one oh two point three
36:39
Speaker 2: duo Haley Pearson and Max Burford this morning when they
36:43
Speaker 2: asked him this question.
36:46
Speaker 1: If you're happy to play this game?
36:47
Speaker 17: The first thing I thought of, with your beautiful wife,
36:51
Speaker 17: Nicole Kidman being on so many great movies TV shows
36:55
Speaker 17: all the time. I watched the movie with her and
36:56
Speaker 17: Zach Efron recently, Family Affair, and I.
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Speaker 3: Thought a good one.
37:00
Speaker 17: What does Keith Urban think when he sees his beautiful
37:04
Speaker 17: wife with beautiful younger men like zac Efron having these
37:09
Speaker 17: beautiful love scenes on TV and radio.
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Speaker 3: Oh, why has that happened?
37:16
Speaker 1: What's just happened to you? He's disconnected from zoom?
37:18
Speaker 6: Did he just hang up on us?
37:20
Speaker 13: I think his team hang up on off because they
37:23
Speaker 13: didn't want us to ask that question.
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Speaker 17: Really, Yeah, that's one hundred percent to ask that man.
37:29
Speaker 2: Thanks, Keith, Urban just went up in my estimation. Let's
37:34
Speaker 2: bring our panel sky News host Anikir de Georgio and
37:38
Speaker 2: Sky News contributor Will Kingston. Will you know you're on
37:42
Speaker 2: the wrong side when one of the nicest celebrities on
37:45
Speaker 2: the planet hangs up on you?
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Speaker 18: No, rubbish? What did he expect he was going to
37:50
Speaker 18: talk about, James? Was he going to talk about the
37:52
Speaker 18: finer points of Middle Eastern foreign policy or critique feminist literature?
37:56
Speaker 18: When you go on these FM radio stations, there's the
37:59
Speaker 18: silly game that you've got to play, and if you
38:01
Speaker 18: want to flog to a tickets or sell albums, that's
38:04
Speaker 18: exactly what you know you're getting into. So don't pick
38:07
Speaker 18: up the phone if you're not willing to answer those questions.
38:12
Speaker 2: I reckon Denika might disagree. What do you reckon Danika
38:15
Speaker 2: Reservan right in the interview.
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Speaker 3: What do you think?
38:18
Speaker 6: No, actually, I do agree.
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Speaker 19: I mean, the bloke goes on for this, it's called
38:22
Speaker 19: a wall of truth segment, James, So you know, what
38:26
Speaker 19: did he expect? He knew he was going to get
38:28
Speaker 19: asked all sorts of intimate questions. I just think he's
38:30
Speaker 19: lucky that he wasn't asked about Nicole Kidman's.
38:33
Speaker 6: Latest movie called Baby Girl.
38:35
Speaker 19: I mean, are the details of that one I can't
38:36
Speaker 19: even talk about even at this time slot at night.
38:39
Speaker 19: But I watched on a plane recently and I was
38:42
Speaker 19: worried that the people around me were thinking, Gosh, what
38:44
Speaker 19: sort of content is this girl watching? So he's lucky
38:46
Speaker 19: that he didn't get asked about that. But look, when
38:48
Speaker 19: you go on FM radio, what do you expect. They're
38:51
Speaker 19: not there for anything else but a big headline for
38:54
Speaker 19: some sort of big grab that they can talk about
38:56
Speaker 19: and they can plug and look here we're talking about
38:58
Speaker 19: it now. The guy hung up on and that's become
39:00
Speaker 19: a story for their station, So for them, it's good publicity.
39:03
Speaker 6: So no, I agree, what did he expect?
39:08
Speaker 2: He probably expected to talk about I don't know his music,
39:11
Speaker 2: which is what he's famous for.
39:12
Speaker 3: But there you go. You've surprised me both of you.
39:14
Speaker 6: His wife's famous as well, that's the thing.
39:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about her fame.
39:20
Speaker 2: Don't talk about you know, the sex scenes that he's
39:23
Speaker 2: got to watch as the husband.
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Speaker 19: No, look fair, I understand. But in the end you
39:27
Speaker 19: go on FM radio James, this is what you expect.
39:32
Speaker 3: I guess you're right. Stick to am.
39:34
Speaker 2: Anthony Alberinezi is trying his best to defend Kevin Rudd
39:37
Speaker 2: over fresh concerns that the US ambassador as the obstacle
39:41
Speaker 2: blocking the Prime minister's meeting with Donald Trump. Have listened
39:44
Speaker 2: to what our PM said this morning.
39:47
Speaker 4: President Trump has had very warm discussions with me. The
39:50
Speaker 4: relationship with the United States is an important one. It
39:55
Speaker 4: says something about the importance that we place in it.
39:58
Speaker 4: That we have a former Prome Minister in Kevin Rudd
40:01
Speaker 4: as our ambassador. That says a lot about the priority
40:05
Speaker 4: that we place in the relationship with the United States.
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Speaker 2: Will we could have other former ambassadors or other former
40:14
Speaker 2: prime ministers as ambassadors who haven't trashed Donald Trump. What
40:18
Speaker 2: did you make of Anthony Abeneze's defense of Kevin Rudd.
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Speaker 18: Pretty unconvincing. As with most things that Albo says, James,
40:26
Speaker 18: the reason why we've got a former PM there is
40:28
Speaker 18: because it's the most plumb job in Australian politics and
40:32
Speaker 18: everyone wants it. But more than that, and call me
40:36
Speaker 18: crazy here, but in an ambassadorial role, where your job
40:39
Speaker 18: is to build relationships, it helps when the person you're
40:42
Speaker 18: trying to build the relationship with actually likes you. And
40:45
Speaker 18: it is pleadingly obvious that rad is despised by the
40:50
Speaker 18: administration and despised by Trump. If you look at the
40:53
Speaker 18: most successful recent ambassador, it was Joe Hockey, and it
40:56
Speaker 18: was because there was obviously a personality mesh there with Trump.
41:00
Speaker 18: You saw them going out playing golf, and he had
41:03
Speaker 18: a really constructive attitude to the relationship. I've heard him
41:06
Speaker 18: say several times, when you go to Trump, come with solutions,
41:09
Speaker 18: come saying I'm your partner, I want to help you.
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Speaker 18: I can't possibly imagine Rudd going to Trump in that
41:13
Speaker 18: way because Rudd loads Trump, and we all know that
41:16
Speaker 18: rudloads Trump, and Trump knows that Rud loads Trump. So
41:19
Speaker 18: this has been a terrible appointment from the outset, and
41:22
Speaker 18: it's not obviously not getting any better.
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Speaker 3: Denika.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, relationship matters when it comes to Trump. But Anthony
41:31
Speaker 2: Albinizi is leaving himself open to the accusation that he's
41:34
Speaker 2: prioritizing his relationship with Kevin Rudd over Australia's best interests.
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Speaker 6: Well, of course he is.
41:40
Speaker 19: I mean, don't forget that Kevin Rudd was once a
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Speaker 19: former mentor of Anthony Albanesi, and I just think all
41:45
Speaker 19: he's doing is trying to smooth over say look, there's
41:48
Speaker 19: nothing wrong when really in the background we've got deteriorating
41:51
Speaker 19: relations with our number one. Ally we can't get the
41:54
Speaker 19: President of the United States, the most powerful man on board.
41:58
Speaker 19: Anthony Alberanzi can't even seek a meeting with this bloke.
42:01
Speaker 19: As we found out today, he's now banking on a
42:03
Speaker 19: series of summits that are coming up in India and
42:06
Speaker 19: then later this year in November, in the hope that
42:09
Speaker 19: he may or may not get a meeting. But the
42:11
Speaker 19: elephant in the room it always has been, is Kevin Rudd. Now,
42:15
Speaker 19: if Kevin Rudd had a shred of decency, he would
42:17
Speaker 19: actually go.
42:17
Speaker 6: Maybe I need to leave this role.
42:19
Speaker 19: Or if Anthony Arbernez he did, he would tap him
42:21
Speaker 19: on the shoulder and go. In the end, Donald Trump
42:23
Speaker 19: does politics very differently, and Donald Trump is a businessman,
42:26
Speaker 19: a strong businessman, and he doesn't forget things. We know
42:29
Speaker 19: that Kevin Rudd has said awful things about him in
42:32
Speaker 19: the past. He called him the village idiot, traded to
42:36
Speaker 19: the West, and then when he was re elected, James
42:38
Speaker 19: Kevin Rud annihilated his keyboard, went and deleted all the
42:41
Speaker 19: evidence of things that he'd ever said about him on
42:43
Speaker 19: social media.
42:45
Speaker 6: But in the end, Trump doesn't forget that.
42:48
Speaker 19: So Anthony Aarberezi can try and make out like, oh,
42:50
Speaker 19: you know, everything is okay.
42:52
Speaker 6: We know it's okay. And you'll also recall James A.
42:54
Speaker 19: Polster yesterday on Sky News said that the problem is
42:58
Speaker 19: the ambassador, So that's Biggs Volumes.
43:04
Speaker 3: In the room to the lizard. Yeah, we'll go ahead.
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Speaker 18: Well, I've had a different spin, which is I don't
43:10
Speaker 18: necessarily think he's prioritizing his relationship with Rudd as much
43:14
Speaker 18: as he just knows our evil and vindictive and spiteful
43:17
Speaker 18: Rudd could be if he is scorned, So I think
43:20
Speaker 18: he would go if I'm going to get rid of Rudd,
43:22
Speaker 18: Rudd will make my life incredibly difficult, and so it's
43:26
Speaker 18: just easy to keep him in the job. I think
43:27
Speaker 18: that's really what's behind it.
43:31
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you raise a good point. If Kevin Rudd's
43:33
Speaker 3: not in Washington, d C.
43:35
Speaker 2: He's in Australia, So maybe that freads into the alb
43:38
Speaker 2: and easiest decision. A proposed one billion dollar energy farm
43:43
Speaker 2: for North Adelaide that would power one quarter of a
43:46
Speaker 2: million homes is on thin ice after environmentalists said it
43:49
Speaker 2: would destroy the habitat of an endangered mini lizard. Will
43:54
Speaker 2: I'm as passionate about pygmy blue tongue lizards as anyone,
43:57
Speaker 2: but win far for a lot more environmental damaged than that.
44:02
Speaker 18: Yeah, the dark satanic mills of the modern age strike again, James.
44:08
Speaker 18: The great tragedy of this push to renewables, and there
44:11
Speaker 18: are several great tragedies involved in it, is that they
44:14
Speaker 18: actually undermine practical environmentalism. They are littering the great landscapes
44:19
Speaker 18: of Australia, They're obviously doing untold damage to our wonderful
44:23
Speaker 18: lizard populations, and they make energy more expensive, which makes
44:28
Speaker 18: all of our critical industries more expensive. So it's just
44:32
Speaker 18: yet another small but I think important example of how
44:36
Speaker 18: just self destructive this push is.
44:41
Speaker 6: Yill.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I wanted to put that to you, Dinanika.
44:44
Speaker 2: This is just another example, isn't it. It's okay to
44:47
Speaker 2: destroy the environment as long as it's under the guys
44:50
Speaker 2: of saving the environment.
44:51
Speaker 19: Yeah, under the guise of a lizard James. Look, honestly,
44:55
Speaker 19: the problem is is that this is what you don't
44:57
Speaker 19: hear from all the ecosalots and all the clo at warriors.
45:01
Speaker 19: You don't actually hear about the environmental damage, the habitat loss,
45:04
Speaker 19: the destruction of marine life, the destruction. You've got a
45:08
Speaker 19: raise of the lands to put in all of these wires.
45:11
Speaker 19: I mean here in Australia we need about ten thousand
45:13
Speaker 19: wires just so Chris Bowen and Coke can connect wind
45:16
Speaker 19: and solar generation to the grid.
45:19
Speaker 6: And that comes at the expense of farmers, of course.
45:21
Speaker 19: Who have to wake up every day to see these
45:23
Speaker 19: wires raising their lands.
45:24
Speaker 6: But you don't hear that.
45:26
Speaker 19: I was a couple of weeks ago actually in Croatia
45:29
Speaker 19: and I saw all of these wind farms. I was
45:31
Speaker 19: traveling from one place to another and literally the land
45:35
Speaker 19: is completely destroyed. It is beaar and you see one
45:38
Speaker 19: after the other, one after the other. These things aren't turning.
45:41
Speaker 19: Of course, it's in the middle of summer, so it's
45:42
Speaker 19: a part time energy source, as we know. But what
45:45
Speaker 19: I thought to myself was, gosh, this looks so hideous,
45:48
Speaker 19: and this is what we're facing in Australia because you've
45:51
Speaker 19: got Chris Bowen so determined to put up these wind
45:54
Speaker 19: farms or carve out in the monstrosities of the.
45:56
Speaker 6: Sea, and it really is awful.
45:59
Speaker 19: So yeah, it is a small example, this lizard that
46:01
Speaker 19: you raise, but it actually represents.
46:04
Speaker 6: A bigger problem and one that the climate warriors are
46:07
Speaker 6: just not very eager to talk about. James.
46:11
Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, more laborized, this time from Assistant Minister
46:15
Speaker 2: for Workplace Relations Patrick Gorman. He tweeted this morning a
46:18
Speaker 2: quote here's what to look forward to when you wake
46:21
Speaker 2: up on the first of July twenty twenty five. Fairer wages,
46:26
Speaker 2: cheaper energy. So I thought, hed on a second, how
46:29
Speaker 2: is energy getting cheaper? Well, his next tweet explained it.
46:33
Speaker 2: He wrote, Australian households will receive one hundred and fifty
46:36
Speaker 2: dollars off their power bills. This support builds on earlier rebates,
46:40
Speaker 2: already easing pressure across the country. Danika, A taxpayer funded
46:45
Speaker 2: payment to electricity companies to offset higher prices.
46:49
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean cheaper energy. It's a bald faced lie.
46:52
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was always going to be because once those
46:55
Speaker 19: rebates start petering out, James, you and I, the consumers,
46:59
Speaker 19: we were always going to reap the costs of this,
47:01
Speaker 19: and Labour's energy plans are killing family budgets.
47:04
Speaker 6: They're putting up prices. It really is.
47:06
Speaker 19: Nothing more than economic self harm. So it's all well
47:08
Speaker 19: and good for Labor to say, oh, look but we're
47:09
Speaker 19: giving you one hundred and fifty dollars here. Yeah, but
47:12
Speaker 19: at the end of it, we're still going to end
47:14
Speaker 19: up with having to pay more. In fact, the average
47:16
Speaker 19: typical East Coast household power bill I read is around
47:19
Speaker 19: four hundred and twenty eight dollars a quarter for the
47:21
Speaker 19: first half of the financial year, but this is set
47:24
Speaker 19: to jump to five hundred and three dollars James from
47:27
Speaker 19: January once those rebates ends. So Labor can spin it
47:31
Speaker 19: all likes, but we know that as of July one today,
47:34
Speaker 19: the power bills up nine percent.
47:38
Speaker 3: Really quickly.
47:39
Speaker 2: Amazon is on track to employ more robots than humans
47:41
Speaker 2: in its warehouses, saying it will make deliveries cheaper and faster.
47:45
Speaker 2: They currently employ one point five million people, but they've
47:48
Speaker 2: just deployed their.
47:49
Speaker 3: One millionth robot. And will I get this?
47:52
Speaker 2: Robots will work twenty four hours a day, seven days
47:54
Speaker 2: a week. That don't wind your wine, they don't take
47:56
Speaker 2: sick leaves, there's no payroll tax, and best of all,
47:59
Speaker 2: you can them if you get sick of them, just
48:01
Speaker 2: pull the plug out and bin them. What's not to
48:03
Speaker 2: like about this?
48:06
Speaker 18: I don't think there's something to like or dislike. It's
48:08
Speaker 18: just the reality, James. This would be like complaining about
48:11
Speaker 18: the introduction of the production line one hundred years ago.
48:14
Speaker 18: It's going to happen whether we like it or not,
48:16
Speaker 18: and I think we just have to get ready for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon, you're right In ten seconds, Danika, what
48:22
Speaker 2: do you think?
48:23
Speaker 3: Is this a problem or is this just the future?
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Speaker 19: It is the future, James. There's nothing we can do
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Speaker 19: about it. Robots are here to stay. That's the way
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Speaker 19: it goes.
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Speaker 2: Let's hope it never applies to TV hosts. Anika, thank
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Speaker 2: you both for betting on the peddler. I appreciate you
48:38
Speaker 2: and Danika. I'll be with you on Sunday night for
48:41
Speaker 2: Deaneka and James. That's all I've got time for tonight,
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