WEBVTT - Sharri | 13 January 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:05.200 Live on Sky News. This is Sharry. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.920 Good Evening. Well, I've got exclusive footage tonight of two 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.400 very high profile Australians catching up with Donald Trump at 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.040 Mara Lago. The video was taken inside the room and 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.640 I'm going to show you that in a moment, But first, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.400 can I just say welcome back everyone. I hope you've 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.279 all had a good break. I hope you had the 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.319 chance to relax and have a breather. I had a 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.920 lovely few weeks with the family and the kids up 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.720 the coast. And it's our first show back tonight for 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:35.960 the year. It is packed and it's going to be 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.559 a massive year. There's already so much going on, so 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.479 much to talk about. We're coming up on the show tonight. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.120 As I said, exclusive footage from inside Mary Lago of 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.120 top Australians meeting with Trump and Millennia. I'll give you 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.080 a hint. It's not Alban Easy or Penny Wong. Also 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.880 tonight we crossed to la where Washington correspondent Annalise Nilsen 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:02.280 will give us the latest on the devastating fires. Albaneze's 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.800 offensive claim that he's done all he could on the 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.960 antisemitism crisis I'll get Julian Lisa's response to that, plus 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.440 his push for National Cabinet to be convened to deal 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.560 with this issue. It's an idea the Prime Minister has 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.440 already dismissed, as he claims he's not responsible for the 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:25.480 racism crisis. Plus have young girls been betrayed for the 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:31.160 sake of political correctness. I've discussed with Spiked onlines Brendan O'Neill. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.800 But let's start with the Los Angeles fires. Twenty four 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.040 lives lost, more than ten thousand homes destroyed, and over 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:45.680 one hundred thousand people evacuated, Beautiful suburbs reduced to rubble 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:51.320 and ash, the face of La completely changed, perhaps permanently. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.040 And after a week, the catastrophe is still ongoing. Three 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.120 major fires still raging by the Santa Anna wins, and 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.440 you can see here's where the active blazers are ongoing. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.000 And now the districts of bel Air and Brentwood are 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.800 facing fire warnings that they could be under threat. And 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.800 this may very well be the worst natural disaster in 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.560 American history. And these fires weren't a shock. The Santa 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:28.040 Anna winds have fueled wide files throughout southern California's history. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.280 LA's environmental factors and the fire risk are well known, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.200 so those running the state should have been prepared, but 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:43.679 they weren't. Their hopeless response unforgivable. They should have done 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.360 everything in their power to mitigate the fire risk and 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:54.320 reduce the fuel. Instead, they prioritized ideology and virtue signaling. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.000 And now there's uproar quite rightly about why tiny fish 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:05.320 and diversity quotas were more important than saving homes and 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.520 saving lives. Or in a nutshell, here's what's gone wrong. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.480 Fire hydrants had no water in them, a major reservoir 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.119 was left empty and unable to be used. No new 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.920 dams were built despite funding approval ten years ago. The 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.960 city's fire budget was cut by seventeen million dollars US 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.760 that is last year, and firefighting equipment was sent off shore. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.560 And as for the leadership for La, Mayor Karen Bass 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.480 knew there was a high fire risk, but shrugged her 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.000 shoulders and went on a free trip to Ghana. And 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.240 when she was pressed on this by a reporter, here 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.600 was her incredible reaction or non reaction. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.600 Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.240 their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.320 department budget for millions of dollars. Madam, there have you 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.440 nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.440 to the citizens today? 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.480 And then the city's fire budget was cut by seventeen 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.000 million US last year. And that's according to the Los 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.320 Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, who said this impacted on 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:28.640 wildfire preparation, but her own handling wasn't so great either. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.880 According to the Wall Street Journal, only five percent of 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.520 her department's budget was spent on fire prevention. Five percent. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.919 And Crowley has called a diversity, inclusion and equity a 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:47.160 top priority. And then there's Governor Gavin Newsoon. He's been 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.040 so distracted by his obsession with Trump that he dropped 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.400 the ball on protecting his own people. In recent months, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.680 he's spoken about Trump proof in California, But what about 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.360 fire I approof in California? 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.520 His call per retribution, revenge. He's pretty clear we responded 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.320 to his assault on California where he tried to unwind 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.720 our progress, and so we're doing now with a special session. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.440 He is not waiting to react to that. We're preparing 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.200 for that in a much a more sober way. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.200 To think Newsome wanted to be president. Surely he's finished 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.159 After this, voters are furious and have turned against him, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.880 and news told one upset voter that he was literally 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.440 on the phone to the president, but it turned out 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.480 he actually wasn't literally on the phone to the president 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:43.000 at all. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.800 Was my daughter's school, governor, Please tell me what you're 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:47.039 going to. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.520 Do, But I'm not going to hurt of my promise. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.400 I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.840 answer the question of what we can do for you 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:55.479 and your daughter? 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:56.159 Can I hear it? 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:57.520 Can I hear your call? 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.640 Because I don't believe it? I'm sorry, can I There's 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.440 literally I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.479 to me I was the president not taking your call 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.320 because it's not going through. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.520 Well, that's the problem with these officials. Their ideological political 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.680 obsessions are more important to them than fulfilling basic obligations 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:23.560 to keep people and their homes safe. One of the 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.400 biggest issues in this whole saga has been the lack 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.400 of water. The water restrictions or because of the laws 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.520 around protecting a tiny fish called smelt. Trump has spoken 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.080 about this on his social media accounts and in press conferences. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.440 It's very sad because I've been trying to get Gavin 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.040 Lissen to allow water to cover. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:46.159 You have tremendous footer. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.440 They send it out to the facility because they're trying. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.240 To protect their tiny little fish. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.000 Which is in other areas. By the way, it's called 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:54.520 the smeller. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.240 And for the sake of the smell, they have no water. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.640 They have no water in the fire hydrants. Well what's 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.479 Governor Newsom's response to all of this. Well, he's announced 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.360 an independent inquiry, but he also claims there's misinformation, and 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.240 he's spoken about cheap political shots. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.360 Reservoirs are completely full. Of the state reservoirs here in 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.000 southern California, that missing disinformation. I don't think advantages or 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.280 aids any of us responding to Donald Trump's insults, we 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.680 would spend another month. I'm very familiar with them. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:34.840 Yeah, but it wasn't misinformation. The reservoir wasn't full. That 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.760 one reservoir that serves the Palace aids was not full. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.120 And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.520 investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.200 that was not a state system reservoir which the President 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.640 elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.960 and somehow connecting the Delta smelt to this fire, which 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:59.160 is inexcusable because it's inaccurate, also incomprehensible to anyone that 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.000 understands policy in the state. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.000 Well, there's no question that one hundred and seventeen million 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:11.400 gallon reservoir was offline, was out of commission. Fire hydrants 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.600 simply have had no water in them, and this has 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.680 been widely reported. And the Wall Street Journal also reported 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.040 that the smelt fish water protections led to billions of 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.920 gallons of water being flushed out to the Pacific Ocean 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.840 each year, along with chronic water shortages. The Wall Street 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.319 Journal reports and I quote that mister Newsom opposed mister 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:41.079 Trump's first term efforts to ease the fish protections. They write, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.920 you can lead California progressives to water, but you can't 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.640 make them think. But when you can't deal with questions 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:55.040 about why fire hydrants are empty, why a reservoir was empty, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.800 why there isn't enough water supply, well, of course, just 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:04.040 blame misinformation. And the left media is upset that Facebook 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:09.000 and x won't help them censor the shocking truth now 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.640 that Mark Zuckerberg is on the same page as Elon 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.240 Musk in ending the so called fact checking, that's really 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:22.400 censorship in disguise. California's mismanagement is not a surprise, and 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.679 it's not isolated to the area of fire protection. It 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:31.400 extends to drugs, crime, homelessness, petty theft. And there's a 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.640 sensational New York Post editorial about this. It says, with 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.680 a democratic governor, democratic mayors, democratic city councils, in a 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.920 democratic justice system, the progressives have darkened the land of 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.880 perpetual sunshine. This week's devastating wildfires are the pinnacle of 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:54.760 democratic incompetence. Environmentalists and politicians refuse to clear the underbrush 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.199 that fueled the flames. A reservoir in Pacific Palisades with 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.920 shockingly bosed for repair. This is a reckoning. The voters 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.480 must demand total change. Democrats have enjoyed one party rule 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.280 in California for too long, and there is no one 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.280 else to blame for what has happened. California is not 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:20.800 paradise lost. California is paradise squandered. The people must take 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.080 it back. It's an excellent editorial. I recommend you read it. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.240 But La, that we know is home to Hollywood's sunshine, Wealth, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:36.000 an opportunity, Well, it's now the global face of woke mismanagement. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.280 It's the extreme example of putting ideology above common sense. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.439 But the biggest and saddest question now is how does 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.559 La rebuild from this? The ten thousand families who've lost 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.000 everything they own, where do they go now? Where do 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.000 they live? How do they recover? So many don't have insurance, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.840 and that's another story, but it's incomprehensible to think how 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.080 much has been destroyed and how many homes have been lost. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.520 The extent of the destruction is the outcome of extreme 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:19.960 incompetence of Californian Democrats, whose shocking decisions unquestionably exacerbated the fires. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.560 And they've been exposed. But you have to ask at 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:30.400 what price. I'm going to come back to that a 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.679 bit later. We'll cross to Annalie Nilsen in Washington, but 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.280 let's turn to Donald Trump. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:36.560 Now. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.160 His inauguration is a week today, and already there are 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.480 some Aussies who are clearly in the new president's orbit, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.520 and Penny Wang and Alban Easy are not among them. Instead, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.600 Australian businessman Anthony Pratt was invited to Trump's exclusive New 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.600 Year's Eve celebration at Marra Lago, along with former Prime 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.840 Minister Scott Morrison and his lovely wife Jenny. I've got 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.200 exclusive footage that was sent to me by someone in 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.400 the room of both Anthony Pratt and Morrison chatting with 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:23.360 Trump and Millenia. Here it is. The footage goes for 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.280 about a minute. We're going to keep showing it to 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.960 you now as I chat. So this video is from 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.120 inside Donald Trump's New Year's Eve party at Mari Lago, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.840 where the President elect held court. He had plenty of 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:40.080 time with both Anthony Pratt and Scott Morrison. It's understood 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.440 Millania and Jenny got on very well. They were happy 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.440 to be reacquainted since the last time they met when 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.640 Morrison was Prime Minister. As you can see as you're watching, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.439 it's quite an expressive conversation and Trump actually at one 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:59.480 point taps Pratt's shoulder in a warm way. Trump's son 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.360 don Ja, was just behind them. You can see that 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.040 at some point in the footage, and I'm told that 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.480 Anthony Pratt spoke to Trump about business and said he'd 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.079 invest billions of dollars under Trump's leadership, and a source 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.680 tells me Trump was very gracious. The song hot Stuff 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.800 by Donna Summer was playing while they chatted, and YMCA 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.800 of course got a crack two, but instead of the 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:29.000 words young man, everyone in the room sang Trump. Matn 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.079 Trump gave a speech at the start of the evening. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.080 It was quite an extravagant affair, and Lara Trump also 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.760 sang a song, but it was quite a relaxed evening. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.280 Anthony Pratt donated fifteen million dollars US to support President 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.320 Trump in the final days of his election campaign, and 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.679 this included fourteen million to the Make America Great against 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.720 super pac another one point one million to Trump's inaugural 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.960 funt so. This donation put Anthony Pratt among the top 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:06.960 donors to Trump's campaign, alongside Elon Musk, Timothy Mellon, Miriam Addison, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.559 and Linda McMahon. Pratt is now living in America. He's 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.400 been granted a visa for permanent US residency and he'll 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.560 be more than welcome there because he's one of the 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:23.200 largest Australian employers of Americans. He's seventy factories in the US, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.360 employee around twelve thousand people. And Scott Morrison is also 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.120 spending more and more time in the US, particularly with 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.080 his company, American Global Strategies, where he's the non executive 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:39.160 vice chairman, but he hasn't moved there, despite some media reports. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.359 At Trump's inauguration next week, it'll be Penny Wong representing 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.400 the Albanezy government. Richard Miles should have gone because in 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.240 defense circles he is better regarded in America and he's 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:57.000 the only one that Republicans have any sort of good 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.960 word to say about. The rest of the Albanezy government 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:06.240 will struggle under the Trump administration. They were already struggling 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.760 with the Biden administration because Alban Easy and Penny Wog 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.160 had split with the US At the United Nations. Albo 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.680 has been aligning himself with the outgoing Justin Trudeau, who's 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.880 well and truly on the outer or with Trump and 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.400 with Canadians. Alban Easy hasn't been asked to come to 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.480 the US to meet with Trump, and this will all 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.360 be an election issue in the next few months. It's 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.920 just one of many areas where the prime minister is 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:41.200 failing Okay, let's bring in now Sky News host Caleb 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.360 Bond and Joe hilde Brand. Great to see you, welcome back. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.160 Couldn't be better than gentlemen. Look at Caleb, I want 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.440 to start with with that. You know, Penny Wog is 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.960 going to be the one who attends alongside Kevin right 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.720 the Trump inauguration, Yet she's been angery the Biden administration 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.120 and by the way, not just on Israel, but also 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.800 on just how chummy they all are with China. The 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.200 US isn't comfortable with that. I mean, it just shows 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.880 how difficult it's going to be for alban Easy. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.920 And Kevin rad for heaven say, we don't need to 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.600 go to his record of what he said about Donald Trump, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.280 which he promptly scrubbed, of course, from Twitter once Trump 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.440 was re elected. I mean, we're hardly sending our best, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.920 are we. Now. You're probably right that Marles ought to go, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.440 but the Prime Minister ought to be there. The fact 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.880 he was not invited is quiet telling. But really we 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.520 should be putting forward even though there's an election campaign 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.480 coming and obviously both Darton and Albanezi very much in 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.480 election mode at the moment, but we are talking about 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.880 the biggest leader in the world, the leader of the 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.440 free world, the President of the United States being inaugurated. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.760 Why would our prime minister not be bashing down the 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.840 door to get to that event, even if it doesn't 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.240 achieve a great deal. Apart from being there, it's an 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.960 opportunity to talk to other world leaders. We know he's 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.120 spend a lot of time overseas going and meeting with 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.159 world leaders at the beginning of his prime ministership. He 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.600 doesn't seem to be so keen to do it now, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.120 perhaps because yeah, indeed, but perhaps because he's more worried 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.000 about what's going on at home and he thinks he 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.439 needs to be on TV screen's here more than he 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.120 does talking to world leaders because he's worried about his job. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.879 Yeah, and we'll get to election timing in a moment, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.119 especially with you joke, because I'm sure you've got some 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.520 insights on that. But when do you think of that footage, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.760 you know, it shows you just how close Because not 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.639 everyone at that New Year's Eve party had access to 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.440 Donald Trump. It was a roped off area. Yet they 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.000 spent quite a lot of time speaking with Scott Morrison 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.119 and Anthony Pratt, and yet nothing with Kevin Rudd, nothing 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.840 with Penny Wong. It's embarrassing. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.000 I think the problem is and it's a problem that 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.560 is even more broad than just those individuals. But there 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.800 has been I think a certain smugness among left wing elites, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.680 and you know, left of the left elites, the upper 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.560 middle class left, as I'm constantly lamenting about where they 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.960 were just dismissive of Trump, all embracing new sort of 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.200 agenda and that this is progressing politics and it's inevitable. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.800 And we've seen that not just on dismissing Trump but 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.240 dismissing Australia Day. There was a really interesting poll in 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.760 the Telly today that shows support for Australia Day is 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.080 actually growing while it Dali himself no less said that, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.040 you know, the midnight hour of wokeness is upon us 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.600 and that wokers in its death rise. A few of 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.879 us have been saying that, but again it's certain. I 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.760 think it actually genuinely seems to be the case. And 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.359 I know this from people I've spoken to in the 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.320 New South Wales Labor Party and from what has happened 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.840 in the US. But all these absolutely not no, no, no, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.639 but people, but people would be coming out like people 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.720 in the Labor Party. Again, not to reveal any confidences, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.439 but people in the Labor Party have been coming out 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.480 and saying, oh, we all think this is crazy too, 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.399 but we thought we were the only ones. We just 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.639 thought it was inevitable and that these people would just 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.080 take over our party. And they've actually pushed back and 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.760 they have won, and they have won convincingly with someone 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.240 like Chris Min's in charge, where you know, these people 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:06.719 are proud of fighting. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.960 Trots Albo, whether he knows it or not, achieved that 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.199 by losing the voice. The voice was the vanguard for 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.320 people to start standing up with these saying actually, we 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.119 don't like work anymore. So, whether he knew it or not, 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.560 that was the greatest thing, all. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.960 These assumptions that this is eving evident, that's going to happen, 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:23.920 that Donald Trump's an idiot and he's crazy and he's 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.560 a madman and he's a loser and Trump is over, 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:26.879 you know. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.120 I mean they were also happy to say that publicly. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.040 That's right, and now suddenly they need his that's right. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.680 And now suddenly they need Trump's favor And none of 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.640 them would even have his phone number, you know, none 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.040 of them would even know how to get in Gonet 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.200 with him. So I think it is just a very 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.680 very salient lesson in smugness and thinking that you are 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.520 on the right side of history. Sometimes history has a 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:50.400 way of surprise. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.640 And it's why, as I reported late last year, Kevin 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.240 Right has been trying to draft in Scott Morrison to 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.119 help him do his job that he clearly isn't going 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.400 to be able to do now. Well, as we've been 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.919 talking about, the federal election will be held in the 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.000 next few months and already it's turning a bit heated. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.680 Peter Dutton and Alban Easy trading barbs after the Coalition's 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.800 unofficial campaign launched yesterday. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:21.800 Have a look, Coalition a negative about absolutely everything. You know, 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:28.480 I haven't seen any specifics, but Peter Dutton will continue 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.720 as he did yesterday to look for areas of division. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.879 Australians have endured one of the most incompetent governments in 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.040 our nation's history. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.280 Well, Caleb, you know Albanezey claiming Dutton's trying to create 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.280 fear and division. We are feeling fear. It's Alban Easy 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.199 who's created it. It is the most ridiculous comment i've 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.080 ever heard from the Prime minister. He has created the fear, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.080 not Peter Dutton in opposition. 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.080 What division is he talking about? I mean, look, the 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.840 Prime Minister may well want to acquit himself with the 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.879 word opposition. The first few letters of that suggest oppose. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.399 Which is the job of an opposition to oppose the 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.600 things that a government is doing. So of course they're 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.520 going to take a negative road. I mean, that's what 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.840 an opposition does. They have to combat the things that 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.080 a government is doing. What can he possibly mean by 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.480 a division? The only bloke whose own division is Anthony 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.600 Albanize and his government with its absolute weakness, I mean, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.560 on his watch, with the help of some state premiers, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.080 you have had social discord all across the country because 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.280 no one had the leadership to stand up, sayang, in 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.600 a minute, let's take a step back here. We as 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:41.560 a country don't tolerate this kind of behavior in Australia. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.120 That's how we've ended up with division caused by his government, 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.879 not by Dutton. And I mean we say you look 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.679 at yesterday the Victorian Trades Hall, who I know are 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.640 not your mates, Joe, even though you are a great 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.480 made of the Labor Party, rocked up out the front 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:01.439 of Dutton's campaign launch essentially with that three eyed fish, 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.320 a blow up version of the three eyed fish, thinking 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.560 that that's somehow going to win Labor another election by 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.080 fighting on nuclear energy, by saying, well, all the fish 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.040 are going to have three eyes. That is what Labor 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.520 is doing right now. They think that's going to win 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.200 him an election. They've got another thing, so so stupid. 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.800 And again remember there are a couple of MPs from 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.199 the left, including at least one from Victoria, who were 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.560 posting memes of the three eyefish on social media and 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.679 probably got Todd shut it down, Take it down, delete 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.920 it you look like an idiot. You are actually hurting 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.159 the callers because it makes the Labour Party look like 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.880 the unscientific blood heites, not the oppelaision. It was also 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.119 the Victorian Labor Party that posted that oh so funny 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.560 social media meme I'm Peter Darton and his wife and 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.159 his wife seeming to refer to him as a monster 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.720 again and Albanez he has to get on the phone 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.080 and clean up their mess because these are guys who 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.960 like to take a massive dump in their own backyard 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.240 and then when it all comes back to horn them 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.200 pitter dunsfault or it's all Rupert Murdock's fault. Now it's 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:01.960 your fault being the dumbass trots that in New South 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:05.399 Wales we're so proud to purge. So that is the 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:07.359 first thing to say about Victorian branch of the ALP 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.000 and what a massive liability it is going to be 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.600 on Peter dund That is the reason why he launched 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.520 his campaign in Victoria in jism, which is. 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.200 Probably there's going to be a really big focus from 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.520 Peter Dutton on Victoria, absolutely no question. He wants to 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.119 win a lot of seats there and for good reason. 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.240 There's not much to win in Queensland. Coalition has a lot, 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.679 so it's going to be New South Wales and Victoria. 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.560 Joe very quickly before you go, what are you hearing 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:34.399 about when the election will be called? 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.080 I think the fact that Anthony Albanezi did not go 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:40.120 to is not going to Trump's inauguration makes it look 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.480 like it'll bit sooner rather than later. There would have 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.040 been a whole bunch of back channels. So if he 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.480 thought that if Anthony Albanez was going, he would have 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.879 been invited. February it'll possibly call it in February. If 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.760