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Speaker 1: On scolds Austrolia.

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Speaker 2: This is the Wider Panekey Show.

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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Pattehy Show. Coming

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Speaker 3: up tonight, Communications Minister Anika Wells Bassis calls for an

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Speaker 3: independent investigation into her taxpayer funded spending spree. Adam Crichton

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Speaker 3: and Jack Horton will join me to cover the day's

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Speaker 3: top headlines. In another blow to the renewable sector, a

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Speaker 3: Gal Energy abandons its offshore wind project in Victoria. Professor

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Speaker 3: m Palmer will wane on that. Josh Hammer will bring

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Speaker 3: you the latest from the US, including the backlash following

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, and

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Speaker 3: Kinziskofield will give her unfiltered views on Prince Harry's cringeworthy

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Speaker 3: late night TV appearance and Left is Losing It features

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Speaker 3: the former leader of the Free World.

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Speaker 4: Back up and remember who the hell we are. We're

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Speaker 4: nine States of America. That's who we are. For the US.

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Speaker 3: But first, Communications Minister Anaka Wells is under intense pressure

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Speaker 3: over her controversial travel expenses. During the week, it was

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Speaker 3: revealed the minister spent ninety four thousand dollars for flights

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Speaker 3: to New York for herself and two others. She also

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Speaker 3: spent thousands for a work trip to Adelaide in June,

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Speaker 3: during which she attended a friend's birthday. What a happy

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Speaker 3: coincidence that was. She also built taxpayers for extravagant mills

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Speaker 3: when she was in Paris for the Olympic Games. There

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Speaker 3: was also a work trip to Threadbow where the taxpayer

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Speaker 3: picked up the bill for her family to join her.

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Speaker 3: And just this morning the Australian Financial Review revealed Wells

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Speaker 3: bill taxpayers around eighteen hundred dollars for her and her

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Speaker 3: husband to attend the Melbourne Formula one Grand Prix, and

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Speaker 3: the Age reports she charged taxpayers more than four thousand

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Speaker 3: in flights so her husband could join her at three

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Speaker 3: cricket events, but Wells insists she followed the guidelines on

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Speaker 3: all of these expenses.

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Speaker 1: Traveled from Brisbane to Adelaide and spent thirty six hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars of taxpayer money to do so. And you went

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Speaker 1: to the birthday party of your friend. Did you know

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Speaker 1: about your friend's birthday party before you booked this trip?

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Speaker 1: And you booked your meetings?

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I can check the timeline for you. But Andrew this

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Speaker 3: is a work trip. I follow the guidelines. I followed

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Speaker 3: the guidelines on all of the occasions. I will continue

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Speaker 3: to do that.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate Andrew your entitlement scrutinized your.

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Speaker 1: Family ghost scheme. They did right, Yes they did. They

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Speaker 1: might pass the guideline test, but you must see that

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Speaker 1: they don't pass the pub test.

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Speaker 6: Andrew, you and your viewers can absolutely have an opinion

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Speaker 6: about the rules.

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Speaker 3: Jordie me now is senior fellow and chief of Connors

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Speaker 3: Something should of Public Affairs Adam Crichton, and sky Uses

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Speaker 3: digital editor Jack Houghton. Adam, I'm going to start with you.

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Speaker 3: It's all within the guidelines. That's what she said. That's

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Speaker 3: what the Prime Minister has said. It's a rather arrogant

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Speaker 3: response in my opinion.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I think she looks very silly in that

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Speaker 7: clip there. I mean, clearly she knows that she was

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Speaker 7: wasteful with taxpayers money.

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Speaker 3: She clearly was.

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Speaker 6: But look, I'm not going to defend.

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Speaker 7: The minister, but I do find these amounts of money

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Speaker 7: in the big scheme of things very small. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we have a federal government who's spending is out of control.

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Speaker 7: Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars a year and we're

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Speaker 7: talking about eighteen hundred dollars here and there. Now it's

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Speaker 7: not right that she's doing it, but it's just such

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Speaker 7: a distraction from you know, the NDIS, which is growing

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Speaker 7: seven percent a year and is about to cost more

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Speaker 7: than the armed forces. But also with these stories, there's

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Speaker 7: just so much hypocrisy on both sides. I mean they

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Speaker 7: come up every couple of years, both sides do it.

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Speaker 7: Remember you know had Brombin Bishop's helicopter.

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Speaker 3: And the guideline.

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Speaker 7: Also know that's the point all in all in the guidelines,

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Speaker 7: So change the guidelines.

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Speaker 3: Change the guidelines. Were just more free for all for everybody. Jack,

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Speaker 3: that's an economist response. Worried about the spending. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: care about a couple of thousand here, ninety four thousand there.

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Speaker 3: To me, this is a serious scandal. Can Anika Well

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Speaker 3: survive this? She is the responsible minister right now for

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Speaker 3: a very contentious World first policy.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to be a fool and disagree with

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Speaker 6: an economist slightly. I take the point that Adam's making

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Speaker 6: that there are broader, more systemic issues with labour spending.

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Speaker 6: But you've got to realize it starts at the little things,

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Speaker 6: and when you have a government that's barely into their

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Speaker 6: second term that has the arrogance to rack up bills

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Speaker 6: like this on things that are things that the average

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Speaker 6: person in their life would not get to go and

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Speaker 6: do these things as a holiday. And it's clearly calculated.

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Speaker 6: Whether she says it isn't or it is, it's quite

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Speaker 6: obvious that she's picking these things that are around these

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Speaker 6: formal business events and charging the taxpayer now eight thousand

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Speaker 6: dollars for AFL Grand final access for her husband thousands

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Speaker 6: of dollars to go skiing. The average person looks at that,

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Speaker 6: and they look at her response, which I've got to say,

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Speaker 6: the press conference, the National Press Club appearance, it was

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Speaker 6: just contempt the way that she answered those questions. She's

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Speaker 6: clearly being told, no, you have to be more transparent.

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Speaker 6: But if you look at the rules, the rules that

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Speaker 6: they are written in Parliament always have this caveat of

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Speaker 6: what's reasonable, and I don't really care if they are

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Speaker 6: part of it or not. I don't really care if

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Speaker 6: they are in or if they're in breach. The point

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Speaker 6: is there is a government who right now has just

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Speaker 6: announced that they're going to get rid of the energy rebate.

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Speaker 6: So this Christmas, six days after Christmas, Australian's going to

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Speaker 6: wake up. They're going to be paying more for their

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Speaker 6: energy bills. And meanwhile, these ministers are not treating their

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Speaker 6: responsibilities with any austerity measures at all. It is just

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Speaker 6: contempt for the taxpayer. And I think every dollar matters,

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Speaker 6: and every thousand dollar matters, and if that's their attitude

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Speaker 6: towards money on a small scale, you can see how

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Speaker 6: that flows through on all the big ticket items.

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Speaker 3: I'm still trying to figure out how she managed to

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Speaker 3: pay ninety four thousand for three airfares to New York

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Speaker 3: and she said she didn't fly first class. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: first class. So it would literally take five minutes to

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Speaker 3: find something far cheaper for the Australian taxpayer to be

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Speaker 3: paying for. But I don't know, I don't know why

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Speaker 3: that wasn't done. Now, a new poll has revealed most

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Speaker 3: Australians want the country's immigration intake polls to give the

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Speaker 3: housing market an opportunity to catch up. The Resolved political monitor,

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Speaker 3: conducted for the Age newspaper, found fifty three percent of

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Speaker 3: voters thought immigration was too high. Voters said the high

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Speaker 3: intake of people was putting pressure on housing, health and

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Speaker 3: education services. Adam. Only one in three voters thought the

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Speaker 3: current immigration level was acceptable. I think that says plenty.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, look it's tally a surprise and I think

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Speaker 7: this is a great opportunity actually for the Coalition when

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Speaker 7: they finally have an immigration policy. They've basically been absent

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Speaker 7: on this issue the whole year pretty much. It's only

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Speaker 7: been one nation, which of course, by the way, has

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Speaker 7: been surging in support that has been saying that immigration

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Speaker 7: levels are too high and that is what the community thinks.

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Speaker 7: And of course if the Coalition was saying it was

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Speaker 7: too high as well, those numbers would be even higher,

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Speaker 7: right because people would change their mind. So it's a

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Speaker 7: great opportunity it should change.

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Speaker 3: And you know, these people are right.

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Speaker 7: I mean three hundred and fifty thousand people a year

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Speaker 7: net migration at the moment that is extraordinarily high. It's

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Speaker 7: the highest of any country in the Western world as

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Speaker 7: a percentage. No one has more immigration in Australia at

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Speaker 7: that level. So people are right, it is too high

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Speaker 7: and we're seeing that in house prices, infrastructure and health

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Speaker 7: as you said, So it's just a matter of time.

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Speaker 7: Someone has to seize this issue and prosecute it.

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Speaker 3: Jack took forever for the Coalition to come to a

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Speaker 3: position on net zero, a position that was sufficiently sufficiently

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Speaker 3: different to Labor. How long is it going to take

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Speaker 3: to get an immigration policy? When are they going to

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Speaker 3: land on a figure that again differentiates them from Labor

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Speaker 3: and gives this Australian people a clear choice?

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Speaker 6: Well, exactly are they going to be too crippled by

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Speaker 6: internal fighting to actually do the only smart thing that

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Speaker 6: they could do in this situation, and to campaign to

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Speaker 6: lower migration numbers. It's so obvious the majority of Australians

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Speaker 6: want this. And I'd also make a point as well,

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Speaker 6: when you've got both major parties in lockstep on these

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Speaker 6: major issues. The polling resembles that. And I'll just mention

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Speaker 6: that the Voice seventy percent of Australians supported the Voice

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Speaker 6: until one day they didn't. Now, if you campaign on

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Speaker 6: an issue, you change hearts and minds, and right now

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Speaker 6: the Coalition is absent from this. It creates space where

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Speaker 6: voters are going to one nation because they're not feeling

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Speaker 6: listened to. And the Liberal Party in particular has a

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Speaker 6: big issue where they are too scared of corporate Australia

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Speaker 6: because corporate Australia wants high immigration numbers because they want

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Speaker 6: to pay people less to do those jobs. And the

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Speaker 6: Liberal Party traditionally historically is lockstep with these corporations and

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Speaker 6: Labor has very successful fully pivoted into being closer aligned there.

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Speaker 6: The Coalition needs to understand though, that this is their

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Speaker 6: moment electorally, this is how they can actually win an election.

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Speaker 6: If they come forward with a campaign, You've already got

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Speaker 6: the majority of Australians wanted to happen, and that is

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Speaker 6: in the absence of a national debate happening. So there

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Speaker 6: is right now margin for that those numbers to completely

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Speaker 6: blow out. And that is how you take down an

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Speaker 6: Albanezi government. You find two or three really fundamental issues energy, immigration,

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Speaker 6: cost of living, and you campaign solely on those issues.

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Speaker 6: And honestly, it's shocking, absolutely shocking that they haven't realized

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Speaker 3: They've got people within the opposition who are offended by

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Speaker 3: the term mass migration. I mean, that's where we are.

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Speaker 3: It's part of the reason why there is no coherent

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Speaker 3: policy that is giving the Australian people what they're crying

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Speaker 3: out for which is lower numbers of immigration. Now talking

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Speaker 3: about the corporate sector and what they're up to, let's

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Speaker 3: talk about ACON. It's one of Australia's largest lobby groups

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Speaker 3: trans Lobby Group. Hundreds of businesses and government agencies compete

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Speaker 3: in its Workplace Equality Index, which they get points on

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Speaker 3: offer for things like having a cupcake day, or gender

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Speaker 3: neutral bathrooms or gender affirmation le all sorts of political activism.

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Speaker 3: The index ranks each organization out of a score of

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Speaker 3: two hundred on how they implement acon's policies. And among

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Speaker 3: those organizations is the ABC, which has spent tens of

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Speaker 3: thousands of dollars implementing acon's workplace demands and it's achieved

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Speaker 3: platinum status for its commitment to trans riot Shack. The

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Speaker 3: Australian Newspaper has done some absolutely superb work in the

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Speaker 3: recent days and exposing the manner in which Acorn exercises

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Speaker 3: this enormous power, this enormous influence in the corporate sector,

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Speaker 3: in government agencies as well, and the public broadcaster is

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Speaker 3: amongst them. But the power they will extends to the

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Speaker 3: private sector as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, look the reporting on gender issues. There's been

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Speaker 6: a reckoning in the BBC as well, where they've had

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Speaker 6: to go back and realize that basically every story they

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Speaker 6: were doing on trans issues and gender ideology was through

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Speaker 6: a positive lens. Everyone who reads the ABC, watches the

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Speaker 6: ABC knows that they are guilty of that crime as well.

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Speaker 6: So if you've got an organization which is a lobby

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Speaker 6: group which is pushing very contentious ideas about puberty blockers

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Speaker 6: and the gender affirming approach, the same sort of stuff

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Speaker 6: that got Tavistock shut down in the UK, some people

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Speaker 6: say it's even worse what we're doing here in Australia

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Speaker 6: and there will be a reckoning. The ABC is now

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Speaker 6: on the side where that lobby group is giving them

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Speaker 6: a platinum badge. So basically what they're saying is the

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Speaker 3: This network Skuy News Australia has cemented itself as one

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Speaker 6: No, I mean they're not even close. And reader, I

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Speaker 3: Also the great local guests.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's never forget at crits. Thank you so much

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Speaker 8: Well, this is a case of reality finally striking home.

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Speaker 3: And now we've got this self inflicted energy crisis where

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Speaker 8: Well again reality has struck. These areas are prime agricultural areas.

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Speaker 8: One day the environmentalists might say, oh, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: As a implimer, thank you so much for your time,

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me coming up left He is

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Speaker 3: losing it. Plus b laters from the US, including the

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Speaker 3: up next. You're watching the Reader Paney Show, and it's

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Speaker 3: time for Left is losing it. Let's start with the

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Speaker 3: former president Joe Biden, who was wheeled out to again

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Speaker 3: a powerful message there about remembering who the hell you are.

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Speaker 4: We just have to give up. So long as we

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Speaker 4: keep the faith, someone hope we get back up and

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Speaker 3: That's who we are. The United States of America got it. Powerful,

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Speaker 3: powerful stuff. They're from. Old Joe can't believe people doubted

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Speaker 3: Remember when he was the most popular royal along with

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Speaker 2: If he was treated like a king for the day,

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Speaker 2: For me, probably you'd want me to do what beg

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Speaker 3: If that's not the most cringe worthy, pitiful and unfunny

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Speaker 3: I'm soon to be unemployed Stephen Colbert's awful program doing

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Speaker 9: This Stephen, you just have to believe. Doesn't this prove

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Speaker 3: He fled the awful media intrusion to do reality programs,

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Speaker 7: You're an actual prince, why would you be why would

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 9: Your Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you're truly

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Speaker 8: Really, I heard you.

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Speaker 9: I heard you elected a king.

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Speaker 8: That's a fair point.

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Speaker 3: Now, let's check in on the clash between pop stars

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Speaker 3: Sabrina Carpenter and the White House. You remember last week

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Speaker 8: You'll get to pag and tumbler. I get to pag

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Speaker 3: The contentment checkmate. Sorry, Sabrina, but that is bloody hilarious.

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Speaker 3: Let's bring in Newsweek Senior Editor at Large and Article

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Speaker 3: Trump's approach to ideological opponents. It's been groundbreaking and it's

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Speaker 10: Well, that's definitely part of it. There's no point in

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Speaker 10: read that, which is that he believes, as I believe

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Speaker 10: when it comes to running campaigns, when it comes to

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Speaker 10: running advertisers, there, when it comes to trying to maintain

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Speaker 10: your approval ratings and your favorability and all that, there,

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Speaker 10: there really is something to be said, actually for just

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Speaker 10: trying to disembowel and invistiate your opponents in deeply unrestrained,

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Speaker 10: uninhibited fashion. I think that also includes some elements of

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Speaker 10: just mocking the dumbest of their possible opponents. There, there

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Speaker 10: was no point in giving more credit than credit is due.

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Speaker 10: Where you have a intellectually sophisticated sparring partner, that's great,

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Speaker 10: there's nothing wrong with that. These intellectual debates been a

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Speaker 10: part of humanity for thousands and thousands of years. But

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Speaker 10: when you have let's call it a Jasmine Crockett or

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Speaker 10: an Alexandria kazi Ortez, you know, sometimes it's not worth

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Speaker 10: getting into a mensa standoff. When it comes to who

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Speaker 10: you know, you know, who has the best idea to

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Speaker 10: help this istory. Sometimes you just say, you know what,

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Speaker 10: you're stupid. You sounds to do with your proposing stupid ideas.

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Speaker 3: That's it. Now, talking about elements of the hateful media,

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Speaker 3: President Trump has gone on the attack with a post

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Speaker 3: targeting SINN anchor Caitlin Collins. The President wrote, Kaitlyn Collins

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Speaker 3: of fake New CNN, always stupid and nasty. Ask me

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Speaker 3: why the new ballroom was costing more money than originally

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Speaker 3: thought one year ago. I said, because it's going to

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Speaker 3: be double the size, and the quality of finishes and

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Speaker 3: interiors has been brought to the highest level. Josh, how

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Speaker 3: do you see the Trump's the President's relationship with the

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Speaker 3: media this time around. Is it more of the same,

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Speaker 3: more of what we saw in the first term, or

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Speaker 3: has there been a shift in that dynamic.

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Speaker 10: So, first of all, let me just say something about

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Speaker 10: Kaitlyn Collins, because Kaitlyn Collins is actually a unique individual

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Speaker 10: in a certain way. Kaitlynd Collins is not just someone

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Speaker 10: who was part of the left wing chartering class, the

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Speaker 10: left wing homogeneous group think echo chamber here in the

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Speaker 10: United States. Kitland Collins actually used to be on the right,

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Speaker 10: at least purportedly. At least she came up she was

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Speaker 10: trained through rate of center journalistic institutions. Specifically, she had

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Speaker 10: a stint with the Daily Caller. I think she actually

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Speaker 10: might have gone her start at the Daily Caller of

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Speaker 10: memory source, so's she's something, you know, trader, I think

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Speaker 10: would be a suddenly overseteening the point, But I didn't

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Speaker 10: think there's a certain type of journalist who goes from

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Speaker 10: the nominal putative right to become part of the deeply

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Speaker 10: anti American, anti Western civilization left. There's a certain part

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Speaker 10: of that that I know that I personally that gets

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Speaker 10: really under my skin. So I can only imagine frankly,

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Speaker 10: what Donald Trump, who's at the eye of the storm,

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Speaker 10: is thinking when he sees someone like Kaitln Collins, who

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Speaker 10: is really just again at the end like borderline traders

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Speaker 10: fashion and frankly, of the course of your career there.

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Speaker 10: But this is part of this is part of the

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Speaker 10: whole contempt and mockery approach there. I mean, I do

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Speaker 10: think that as a pro toarce of media readA more

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Speaker 10: generally in the second term, is even more adversarial even

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Speaker 10: more hostile. And there's a very good reason for that,

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Speaker 10: which is that the media, since Donald Trump left the

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Speaker 10: office in January twenty twenty one, since he came back

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Speaker 10: four years later, I mean, they were deeply complicit in

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Speaker 10: the attempts to incarcerate him, to bankrupt him, to throw

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Speaker 10: him in jail, to ruin his life. Essentially, Yeah, the

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Speaker 10: media was complicit every single step up the way, and

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Speaker 10: the unprecedented, completely completely historically unmatched a tempt to just

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Speaker 10: destroy this man, to destroy this former and now we

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Speaker 10: know at that time then future president of the United

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Speaker 10: States there So the media is complicit every step of

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Speaker 10: the way. I think that you're frankly seeing the fallout

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Speaker 10: of that now in this second term. We know from

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Speaker 10: Isaac Newton, the seventeenth century physicist, that for every action

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Speaker 10: there's an equal and opposite reaction. But we also know

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Speaker 10: reader from Donald Trump himself, then when someone punches at you,

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Speaker 10: you punch back twice as hard. So you know, let's

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Speaker 10: not call it Newton's law of physics. Let's call it

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump's law of pr which is what we're seeing

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Speaker 10: play out here in the second term.

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Speaker 3: Now, it's been revealed in a Washington Post fluff piece.

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Speaker 3: It was a bit of a fluff face on Rosie

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Speaker 3: o'donald that the former actor comics obsession with Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: is reaching new disturbing Lay's jars. She we know, fled

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Speaker 3: the country with a non binary child once Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: was elected, but she's also got that poor child now

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Speaker 3: obsessively talking about Donald Trump. And when Rosie's therapist urged

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Speaker 3: Rosie to detach from posting about President Trump for just

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Speaker 3: two days, for just two days. It was a request

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Speaker 3: that came just before Thanksgiving, well she caved almost immediately. Josh,

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Speaker 3: she was posting within hours. It really is an illness.

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Speaker 3: I know, we joke about TDS Trump derangement syndrome and

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Speaker 3: hay can overtake people's lives and make them completely mad.

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Speaker 3: But with Rosie it seems to have actually happened. I mean,

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Speaker 3: is she working, is she happy? Is she productive? Or

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Speaker 3: is she just obsessively posting and talking and ruminating about

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump.

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Speaker 10: You know, I don't claim to have my thumb deeply

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Speaker 10: on the scale of American pop culture when it comes

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Speaker 10: to folks like Rosie Donald, but I will say that

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Speaker 10: I couldn't even tell you the last time that I

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Speaker 10: heard Rosie o'donald's name in a non Donald Trump contact.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I have what is this woman doing with

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Speaker 10: her lated hesips? I mean I actually I actually have

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Speaker 10: no idea. I mean, has has she been cast in

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Speaker 10: something like third rate you know, stand up bit on

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Speaker 10: some second rate channel. I literally couldn't tell you what

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Speaker 10: Rosie o'donnald is doing other than just covetching and griping

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Speaker 10: about Donald J. Trump. Trump and Rosie go back quite

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Speaker 10: a long way if you think back, read all the

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Speaker 10: way to the very first primary debate back in August

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Speaker 10: twenty fifteen to launch up that very chaotic primary cycle.

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Speaker 10: That was when Megan Kelly was actually moditating that back

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Speaker 10: on Fox News and he got into she got into

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Speaker 10: it with Donald Trump, and that was in the infamous

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Speaker 10: exchange where Donald Trump made some jab about but only

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Speaker 10: Rosie o'donald as far as the only women that he

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Speaker 10: hates in his life. There, So Rosie and the don

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Speaker 10: go back decades. When it comes to the New York

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Speaker 10: you know, you know, upper class social scene there, she's

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Speaker 10: probably not okay. I mean, look, I'm not a psychiatrist.

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Speaker 10: I'm not a psychologist. There far for me to try

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Speaker 10: to diagnose her from afar. But Donald Trump does have

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Speaker 10: He's getted with many unique abilities, the art of the

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Speaker 10: troll and the art of getting under your opponent's skin,

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Speaker 10: which kind of ties into a whole Markrot conversation. This

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Speaker 10: is absolutely part of it. He absolutely has a way

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Speaker 10: to just deeply, deeply make his opponents lose their everlasting

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Speaker 10: mind and focus in monolithic fashion on the underseering hatred

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Speaker 10: of him. And it's a very unique political skill. I'm

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Speaker 10: not frankly sure like I can think another American political

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Speaker 10: figure I've ever seen have this particular skill, but Rosie

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Speaker 10: o'donald's kind of exhibit a. That's for sure.

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Speaker 3: He does have that ability to make his political opponents

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Speaker 3: just behave in a crazy fashion. If that would just

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Speaker 3: remain normal and if they just have a proportionate response that,

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Speaker 3: I think that would be a lot more successful in

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Speaker 3: a trying to defeat him. But you're right, Rosie already

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Speaker 3: has her own psychiatrist who she's spoken about, and she

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Speaker 3: told Jim Acosta during a recent chat that she was

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Speaker 3: disgusted with the White House Press Corps for allowing Trump

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Speaker 3: to verbally rape a reporter verbally I mean she is

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Speaker 3: not well. Let's move on from Rosie and talk about

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Speaker 3: the World Cup. Twenty twenty six is shaping up to

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Speaker 3: be an incredible year for the US two hundred and

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Speaker 3: fiftyeth birthday, and you're hosting the soccer World Cup, josh

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Speaker 3: arguably the world's biggest sporting event. President Trump was in

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Speaker 3: excellent spirits during the World Cup draw, where he received

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Speaker 3: a peace prize from FIFA. He danced to YMCA and

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Speaker 3: guess which country he drew.

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Speaker 9: Let's see are you sure? Are you sure this is

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Speaker 9: the ball?

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Speaker 5: You can still change it if you want.

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Speaker 3: Does he know something that I don't know? Let's give it.

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Speaker 9: Let's give it a shot. Let's give it a shot.

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Speaker 8: I agree, Okay, this is shocking.

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Speaker 2: United States of America.

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Speaker 3: And then there was a dancing. There's always dancing, but Joshua.

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Speaker 3: There are those in the soccer world very upset with

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Speaker 3: FAIFA for honoring the president. Among them is Australia's own

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Speaker 3: Craig Foster for the player, who called the event a

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Speaker 3: shameful day for the beautiful game. What's your response to

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Speaker 3: the critics.

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Speaker 10: Well, first of all, Rita, I'm pretty sure that the

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Speaker 10: United States and not Australia are actually gonna be in

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Speaker 10: the same group of group yes, twenty twenty six. So

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Speaker 10: I very much look forward. I very much look forward

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Speaker 10: to seeing my country and your country gear up in

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Speaker 10: this most beautiful game. I'm a big sports fan general.

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Speaker 10: I love the World Cup. I look forward to it

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Speaker 10: very much every four years. But I'm not the only

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Speaker 10: one who loves sports. Donald Trump loves sports as well.

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Speaker 10: Sport has been a big part of Donald Trump's public

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Speaker 10: facing persona for decades and decades and decades. He was

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Speaker 10: always seeing back in New York City at Knicks games,

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Speaker 10: Yankees games, things like that. And now I'm on the

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Speaker 10: world stage right now. He's in timiately involved when it

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Speaker 10: comes to live golf, the rival to the PGA Tour

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Speaker 10: and professional golf. They have a tournament actually at Trump Derell,

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Speaker 10: his his very iconic, well known South Florida golf course.

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Speaker 10: Also my wedding venue, so whatever whatever that's worth. As well,

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Speaker 10: he's very he's very, very involved within with golf. He's

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Speaker 10: very involved with with with international motor sports. He's been

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Speaker 10: seen when it comes to the Formula one US races

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Speaker 10: things like that as well, and he's also involved in

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Speaker 10: trying to get the Washington I still say Redskins, but

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Speaker 10: the Washington commanders of the name is. He's trying to

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Speaker 10: get the football team back from Maryland into Washington, d C.

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Speaker 10: They're trying to rebuild the old RFK Stadium in eastern Washington,

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Speaker 10: d C. He's behind that, So he cares a lot

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Speaker 10: about sports. He cares a lot about this. There they're

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Speaker 10: allegedly doing a UFC fight rita on the White House

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Speaker 10: Lawn on Netflix, which, yeah, it's gonna be in conjunction

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Speaker 10: with the tune and fifty the anniversary. I mean, you know what,

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Speaker 10: what what an amazing spectacle. I frankly just an other

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Speaker 10: world expectable that's going to be. But sport is a way,

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Speaker 10: in theory to try to trans and the bitter partnership

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Speaker 10: of politics. Unfortunately, so much a sport has been subsumed

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Speaker 10: by politics. So we're gonna have to work, we have

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Speaker 10: to have to bring that back to what it used

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Speaker 10: to be. But I think Trump understands that sport is

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Speaker 10: something that resonates with everyone on every single rung of

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Speaker 10: the economic ladder. It's something that resonates with the workingman,

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Speaker 10: middle class, upper class, whatever, you are. If you're a patriot,

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Speaker 10: if you enjoyed just watching successful people compete against the

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Speaker 10: successful people and strive to be the best the best there,

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Speaker 10: you are going to have some sort of inate simpthy

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Speaker 10: for sport. I think it's really kind of part of

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump's, frankly, his working class, blue collar appeal, and

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Speaker 10: again as a big sports for myself, I respect it

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Speaker 10: very much.

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Speaker 3: And it's incredible that that loss in twenty twenty means

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Speaker 3: his president now, and he's not only got the soccer

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Speaker 3: World Cup, he's got the two hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration,

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Speaker 3: He's got the Olympics. He's going to be president for

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Speaker 3: those momentous events, Josh, before you go. War Secretary Pete

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Speaker 3: Hegsitt has been under intense pressure in the past world

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Speaker 3: after a Narco boat bringing large amounts of deadly drugs

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Speaker 3: into America was neutralized along with the Narco terrorists on board.

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Speaker 3: There's been talk of war crimes, but Hexit is not

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Speaker 3: taking a backward step. He made these comments at the

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Speaker 3: Reagan Presidential Library.

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Speaker 6: The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism,

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Speaker 6: undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke, moralizing.

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Speaker 1: And feckless nation building.

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Speaker 3: We will instead put our.

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Speaker 6: Nation's practical, concrete interests first.

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Speaker 9: We will deter war, we will advance our interests.

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Speaker 4: We will defend our people.

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Speaker 1: Peace is our goal.

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Speaker 3: Peace through strength. That's the philosophy. There was a lot

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Speaker 3: of conjecture, Josh, that his position was under threat. Is

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Speaker 3: that how you see it? Is he going to have

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Speaker 3: issues with this scan? Was this another manufactured crisis by

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Speaker 3: elements of the media.

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Speaker 10: You know, this story makes me want to pull my

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Speaker 10: hero because how many times, how many times have we

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Speaker 10: seen this same playbook? You know, right after Donald Trump

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Speaker 10: nominated Pete heggs As to be the then Secretary of

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Speaker 10: Defense and now it's rebrand that the secretary of War.

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Speaker 10: Right after that last November, over a year ago, if

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Speaker 10: you recall, the media immediately sprang up into action trying

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Speaker 10: to rerun the twenty eighteen Breck Cavanaugh playbook. They were

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Speaker 10: immediately besmirching petegs aff They said he was a drunker,

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Speaker 10: that he was drunk while on set of Fox, that

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Speaker 10: said that he was a philanderer and adulterer, and oh,

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Speaker 10: by the way, he was actually a rapist to boot

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Speaker 10: in case that wasn't bad enough for you, So we

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Speaker 10: had that. Thank goodness, we got Jony Ernst of Iwan

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Speaker 10: board and all the senators on board, so he became

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Speaker 10: the secretary. Okay, fast forward a few months. Then you

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Speaker 10: had this signal gate scandal which came in March during

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Speaker 10: this US operation against the WHO, this and Yemen. Was

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Speaker 10: this done in the most kosher fashion imaginable?

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Speaker 8: Maybe?

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Speaker 10: Maybe not? Okay, maybe there's a better app than signals,

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Speaker 10: some sort of super encrypted secret app to communicate. I

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Speaker 10: don't know, Probably there is. Was this the end of

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Speaker 10: the world? No, there was not. How do I know?

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Speaker 10: Because nothing happened because not a single hair of a

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Speaker 10: US soldier, marine, or sailor was harmed, as was all

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Speaker 10: of this. So that operation failed too. Now they're onto this.

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Speaker 10: Now they're onto the latest information operation, political acts, political

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Speaker 10: warfare act against Pete Hexeth and for what literally for what?

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Speaker 10: Because a Navy admiral, acting under his chaining commands, decided

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Speaker 10: that the drugs on this particular boat were about to

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Speaker 10: be interdited and intercepted by another vessel, and that cocaine

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Speaker 10: and fence wall could have been headed to the United States.

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Speaker 10: If you accept the premise as I do read it,

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Speaker 10: the chemical warfare is indeed a form of de facto

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Speaker 10: warfare upon the United States, then it absolutely stands to

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Speaker 10: reason that targeted, tactical, preemptive, prophilactic action to secure the

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Speaker 10: American people in the American homelands against such a threat

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Speaker 10: is absolutely called for. So this scandal is is ridiculous.

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Speaker 10: I've been calling it out every day now for a

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Speaker 10: week and a half. The Washington Post, by the way,

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Speaker 10: which initially report of this, literally got their facts wrong.

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Speaker 10: In fact, the New York Times ball Alos was actually

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Speaker 10: the one that called out the Washington Post for doing

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Speaker 10: that there, so they frankly OpEd Heggs had something of

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Speaker 10: an apology for accusing him of just callously ordering so

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Speaker 10: called war crimes there. But you know, I guess the

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Speaker 10: last thing on this I'll say, Rita, is that you know,

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Speaker 10: there's as someone who follows the Middle East closely, I've

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Speaker 10: become almost numb to the war crime allegation because of

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Speaker 10: just the routine matter in which they attempt to accuse

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Speaker 10: Netanyahu and the israelities of committee war crimes there. So

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Speaker 10: I mean, I guess they're trying to bring the specific

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Speaker 10: Middle East accusations. Now try to take it into the

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Speaker 10: American context. It's not gonna work. It's not work because

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Speaker 10: the heck set that we saw in the video was

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Speaker 10: a very confident, well spoken secretary of war. I happened

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Speaker 10: to be a big fan of him, and I wish

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Speaker 10: him nothing but the best. He's gonna survive this relatively unscathed.

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Speaker 10: This story will be dead by the next few days.

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Speaker 3: I predict. Josh, Amma, thank you for your ti Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Still to come Prince Harry's cringe worthy appearance on Stephen

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Speaker 3: Colbert's show. Kinsey Schofield is up next. Welcome back, joining

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Speaker 3: me now, celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey, we

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Speaker 3: have to talk about Prince Harry's appearance on Stephen Colbert's

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Speaker 3: awful program. Let's have a look.

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Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, come on, come on, come on, just

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Speaker 9: look at this. We're suddenly surrounded by beautiful Christmas trees.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's for a Christmas bit I was going to

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Speaker 7: do before you interrupted me.

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Speaker 3: Oh Stephen, Stephen, look it's snowing, Kinsey. The whole thing

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Speaker 3: was just so incredibly embarrassing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, not funny, and Harry takes the swape at Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump and at the same time the Royal family. Actually,

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Speaker 5: Prince Harry's reality is that he's living in a gig

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Speaker 5: economy now, hustling from one paid project to the next,

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Speaker 5: not a steady income. His income depends on Americans buying

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Speaker 5: his shows, books and speaking engagements. That's why taking a

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Speaker 5: job at President Trump on national television is such a

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Speaker 5: terrible gamble. Trump won the election, and Harry's comments risk

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Speaker 5: turning off a huge portion of the audience He needs

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Speaker 5: to support his ventures. Why antagonize the very people he's

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Speaker 5: trying to sell instead of just staying quiet and safeguarding

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Speaker 5: his brand. But you know what, at least Colbert won't

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Speaker 5: be lonely in the unemployment line. He'll have his friend,

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Speaker 5: Prince Harry standing right there next to him.

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Speaker 3: Well, the timing of Harry's appearance couldn't be worse. It

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Speaker 3: was as terrible as the appearance itself is. At a

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Speaker 3: time when Megan Michael's father was gravely ill in hospital,

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Speaker 3: The Sun newspaper has revealed that the Duchess of Sussex

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Speaker 3: has sent her strange father an email he has begged

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Speaker 3: Meghan to say before he dies.

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Speaker 5: Kinsey messy Markle is back. Megan says she emailed her

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Speaker 5: father after his life for death surgery, though he says otherwise.

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Speaker 5: The email she supposedly used has been inactive for five years,

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Speaker 5: leaving the public to wonder who's telling the truth. It

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Speaker 5: seems funny to me that one of Fortune's most powerful

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Speaker 5: women can't make a simple phone call to her father.

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Speaker 3: And an email. Really, like, you couldn't even send a

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Speaker 3: message to the hospital. Send some flowers and a message

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Speaker 3: via a sibling, perhaps pick up the phone or visit.

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Speaker 3: I know those two things are quite dramatic, but an email,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it just is so transactional and lacking in feeling. Kinsey.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what else we expect from her these days,

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Speaker 5: but I think that she had to do this. She's

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Speaker 5: trying to promote a Christmas special where she shoves family

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Speaker 5: down our throat and it's literally familyless. So this was

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Speaker 5: She knew that this was detrimental to her brand and career,

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Speaker 5: so she claimed she reached out to her father despite

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Speaker 5: him saying otherwise.

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Speaker 3: Now let's talk about share. The seventy nine year old

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Speaker 3: singer is reportedly set to tie the knot with her

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Speaker 3: thirty nine year old boyfriend Alexander Edwards, and she wants

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Speaker 3: to get this wedding organized before her eightieth birthday in May.

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Speaker 3: Kinsey and Insider told The Mirror that sher doesn't give

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Speaker 3: a hoot about their forty year age difference, and they're

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Speaker 3: both ready to commit to each other. She sees her

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Speaker 3: upcoming celebration at turning eighty as the perfect time for

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Speaker 3: her and Alexander to seal the deal. Kinsey has been

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Speaker 3: nearly fifty years since her second marriage ended. I guess

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Speaker 3: it's time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a bit of a shock because

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Speaker 5: she previously said she didn't really want to get married again,

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Speaker 5: but recently she said her boyfriend reminded her that it's

788
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Speaker 5: never too weak to find love, and what matters is

789
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Speaker 5: how relationships feel.

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Speaker 3: Not what anyone else thinks.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I do think what's beautiful about Sheriff's perspective

792
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Speaker 5: is that she's never treated love as a certificate of completion.

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Speaker 5: She's always seen it as a choice, a luxury away

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Speaker 5: to add joy to an already full life, and maybe

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Speaker 5: that is the way we should all think about it.

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Speaker 3: She has she has had some very noteworthy quotes about

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Speaker 3: men and relationships, over the years. We won't go through

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Speaker 3: them now, but she has away with her words that

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Speaker 3: Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau have made their relationship Instagram official.

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Speaker 3: They posted this little video of a sushi date Kinsey

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Speaker 3: Justin Trudeau. He's looking at Katie like she's a Canadian

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Speaker 3: trucker's bank account. He just wants to seize all of that,

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Speaker 3: all of.

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Speaker 5: It hashag never forget. That's a very good reference. I

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Speaker 5: really expected more from Katy Perry here, like a caption

806
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Speaker 5: that said I kissed a Canadian and I liked it.

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Speaker 5: If they ever break up, Canada is legally required to

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Speaker 5: play the One That Got Away on repeat on every

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Speaker 5: radio station, like a form of Chinese torture. That's what

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Speaker 5: I think should happen.

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Speaker 3: Oh dear, I mean, really, why would you get together

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Speaker 3: with Justin Trudeau after he's out of office. This was

813
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 3: a chance to be first lady after she was an astronaut.

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Speaker 3: She could have just ticked off another first on her list.

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Speaker 3: Sydney Sweeney. She's opened up on the backlash over her

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Speaker 3: American Eagle commercial. These are genes commercials that seem to

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Speaker 3: trigger the left. She was abused online for the campaign,

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Speaker 3: so I'm calling her a white supremacist. She told People

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Speaker 3: magazine she was surprised by the reaction, and she also said,

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Speaker 3: anyone who knows me knows that I'm always trying to

821
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Speaker 3: bring people together against hate and divisiveness. Is she gonna

822
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Speaker 3: have to be asked about this commercial for the rest

823
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Speaker 3: of her career, Kincy?

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Speaker 5: I mean, hopefully this shut it down. I hate that

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Speaker 5: Sidney Sweetey even has to address baseless rumors, but sometimes

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Speaker 5: those narratives take on a life of their own. In

827
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Speaker 5: her case, she chose to step in set the record straight.

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Speaker 5: I respect that, but you're right. Can we close this

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Speaker 5: door now? Or are people going to continue to look

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Speaker 5: for this clickbait and ask her about it every time

831
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Speaker 5: she sits down in front of a microphone.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, in a way, it's not bad

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Speaker 3: for her brand. As far as endorsements go, this campaign

834
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Speaker 3: was enormously successful for American Eagles. So much free publicity,

835
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Speaker 3: and even the negative publicity seemed to work for them

836
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Speaker 3: because it was negative on such unreasonable grounds. Most people

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Speaker 3: who looked at that ad didn't see all the crazy

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00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 3: races tropes that the left seas. Now let's get to

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Speaker 3: the truth behind jay Z and sister in law. Is

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00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 3: it Solange Solange Nole's infamous elevator fight. Surveillance footage from

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Speaker 3: inside that elevator at New York City's Standard Hotel showed

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00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: Solange lunging out, swinging at and kicking jay Z. Look

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00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 3: at it go. This was following an after party at

844
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Speaker 3: the Boom Boom Room. And what was always fascinating to

845
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Speaker 3: me was the way that Beyonce just stood by and

846
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Speaker 3: watch that assault happen with Really, it seemed like she

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Speaker 3: was not to engage, she was just observing.

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Speaker 8: Well.

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Speaker 3: Now, fashion designer Oscar G. Lopez, who made Rachel Roy's

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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen metgala gown, claims jay Z complimented Roy's dress

851
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Speaker 3: at the event and that's what set off this chain reaction. Kinsey,

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00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 3: Surely a compliment about address wouldn't cause.

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Speaker 5: That, look, says who he wasn't in the elevator. Literally

854
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 5: never heard of this designer until the resurrection of this

855
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 5: ten year old story where he claims jay Z complimented

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Speaker 5: his client's dress his dress. I'm not trying it. There's

857
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Speaker 5: no new real information here.

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Speaker 3: We knew the fight was about infidelity. I do believe

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Speaker 3: at the Core.

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Speaker 5: The fight was about infidelity, and it's Backy with the

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Speaker 5: good hair, Rachel Roy and you know, Beance probably didn't

862
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Speaker 5: want to break a nail. You know, I'd sit back too,

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Speaker 5: and you know I'm not trying to mess up my manicure.

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm just how can you be that this passionate

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Speaker 3: your sister is going nuts attacking physically attacking your husband

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Speaker 3: who you assume has been cheating on you, and you

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Speaker 3: just stand there and I watch like you're just watching

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Speaker 3: grass grow. I mean the whole thing. That was my

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Speaker 3: first red flags about Beyond S because the reaction there

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Speaker 3: was just so bizarre.

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Speaker 5: To say, typical Tuesday for them, apparently, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I want to see a reality

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Speaker 3: show on those two. Then forget about Meghan and Harry

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Speaker 3: because their reality show was amongst the most boring television

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Speaker 3: ever produced. That it may be a little bit trashy,

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Speaker 3: but I'm going to be honest, I'd watch it. Kinsey Schofield,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time tonight, and that's

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Speaker 3: all the time we have. I'll see you at eleven

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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Near's Night is up next