Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, November thirteen. There's been a five billion dollar
Speaker 1: hike in public sector wages for Commonwealth public servants. The
Speaker 1: Australian's revealing today there are twenty six thousand new public
Speaker 1: servants in Canberra. The hardhead, the Hawks, the ice maiden,
Speaker 1: the interrogator and the anti vaxer. Today on the Front
Speaker 1: we meet Team Trump's starting lineup and find out how
Speaker 1: they all start reshaping the world. One of the things
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is most famous for is firing people.
Speaker 2: Wondering what you would say to President Obama, you're firing.
Speaker 1: His first term set new turnover records, and some high
Speaker 1: ranking White House staff set records of their own. For
Speaker 1: the shortest ever terms in office, Trump sacked four chiefs
Speaker 1: of staff, a Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Inspector General
Speaker 1: of the Intelligence Community, and many more. Now, as President elect,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has to find a new team, and the
Speaker 1: names are coming in fast. Florida Senator Marco Rubio will
Speaker 1: be Secretary of State, the first person of Latino extraction
Speaker 1: in the job. Rubio previously ran for the Republican nomination
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen against Trump. He called Trump a con
Speaker 1: artist and the.
Speaker 3: Most vulgar person ever aspired to the presidency in terms
Speaker 3: of how he's carried out his candidacy.
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Elise Stephanik has also had a change of heart
Speaker 1: about Trump, turning from an establishment Republican moderate to one
Speaker 1: of Trump's most vocal allies and a powerful advocate for
Speaker 1: the gun lobby. She'll be Trump's ambassador to the United
Speaker 1: Nations and top of her agenda will be Israel.
Speaker 3: She's been critical of the way that the United Nations
Speaker 3: has responded to the Israel question following the October seven,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three attack on Israel by Hamas, and she's
Speaker 3: taken up a sort of attack dog PERSONA.
Speaker 1: Joe Kelly is the Australian's National affairs editor. He's in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3: She is very direct and to the point. I think
Speaker 3: that's something that has endeared her to Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: probably Australians might remember her from those hearings where she
Speaker 3: was questioning the leaders of some of America's top universities
Speaker 3: about their policies related to criticism of Israel.
Speaker 1: That's not what you were asked. You were asked, were
Speaker 1: there any anti Jewish protests?
Speaker 2: And you said no.
Speaker 3: So the protest was.
Speaker 1: Not labeled as an anti Jewish protest.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking what it was labeled, and the Israeli
Speaker 2: government the question wasn't what it was labeled.
Speaker 3: She is also a staunch Trump political ally. She has
Speaker 3: stuck with Donald Trump and defended him through two impeachment processes.
Speaker 3: She is only forty years old, and she is a
Speaker 3: senior Republican. She's the fourth ranking House Republican. She is
Speaker 3: being rewarded and Donald Trump has great confidence in her
Speaker 3: and her abilities. Obviously, at the UN, we're living through
Speaker 3: a period of great global uncertainty where there are conflicts
Speaker 3: in the Middle East and also in Eastern Europe. So
Speaker 3: these are the questions that she'll be dealing with. Claire.
Speaker 1: I noticed in her statement accepting the job, Joe, she
Speaker 1: described Donald Trump's policy or philosophy as America first, peace
Speaker 1: through strength leadership on the world stage. What does that mean, good.
Speaker 3: Question, Claire. It is the slogan, the line if you
Speaker 3: like that is being repeated by so many people, including
Speaker 3: by jd Vance Peace through Strength.
Speaker 1: Governor Walts can criticize Donald Trump's tweets, but effective, smart
Speaker 1: diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability
Speaker 1: back to a very broken world.
Speaker 3: But mostly it is an attempt to remind people, not
Speaker 3: only Americans, but I think people all around the world
Speaker 3: that a lot of these conflicts and disturbances that have
Speaker 3: happened have happened under Joe Biden's watch. And the people
Speaker 3: associated with Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself, of course,
Speaker 3: are making the point that he was president during a
Speaker 3: period of relative global stability, and so their narrative, their
Speaker 3: political argument is this was because people didn't want to
Speaker 3: start things while Donald Trump was in power. So I
Speaker 3: think this is the political slogan to suggest to people
Speaker 3: that Donald Trump will be an American strong man, that
Speaker 3: he will be someone that other world leaders won't want
Speaker 3: to go around starting things on his watch.
Speaker 1: Legal assylies are not charged with any crime.
Speaker 2: When you're in the country, I legalist violation eight United
Speaker 2: States Cold thirteen twenty five.
Speaker 1: Seeking asylum is legal.
Speaker 2: Do you want zichostimic goal through the port of entry?
Speaker 2: Do it the legal way.
Speaker 3: This is Tom Homan So He was a former acting
Speaker 3: director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He
Speaker 3: was also a contributor to the Heritage Foundation's twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five Conservative Blueprint, where he contributed some ideas on immigration reform,
Speaker 3: and he has given interviews today making clear that he
Speaker 3: will take a very tough line on the border. But specifically,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump says that he will be charged with conducting
Speaker 3: mass deportations, and this was really one of the contentious
Speaker 3: parts of the Trumpian agenda. But Tom Homan today has
Speaker 3: made clear that he is willing to conduct these deportations,
Speaker 3: and he's appealed to democratic estates and democratic cities to
Speaker 3: cooperate with the new Trump administration to help them conduct
Speaker 3: these deportations. And he says that if they don't, they'll
Speaker 3: just ramp up the number of agents they need to
Speaker 3: go about and do this. So the example he used
Speaker 3: this morning was a New York City. So there have
Speaker 3: been a lot of migrants coming into New York City
Speaker 3: in the last couple of years. The New York Times
Speaker 3: was reporting just over the weekend that it was two
Speaker 3: hundred thousand since twenty twenty two, and that so much
Speaker 3: money has been spent on shelters. This in some part
Speaker 3: explains why Trump was able to pick up so much
Speaker 3: support in some of these democratic strongholds that we're experiencing
Speaker 3: influxes in immigration. So Tom Homan today is saying that
Speaker 3: they will act with or without the support of these
Speaker 3: democratic states and cities. Obviously he would prefer their support,
Speaker 3: but he is going to take a tough approach.
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor is another crucial position in the government.
Speaker 1: Joe and Donald Trump is appointed Mike Waltz, who's himself
Speaker 1: a former soldier. He's a bit of a China Hawk.
Speaker 1: What does that mean for the United States as a
Speaker 1: news stance on China?
Speaker 3: Do you think, Well, Claire, this is a very important position,
Speaker 3: national Security Advisor, and it's also a role that doesn't
Speaker 3: require Senate approval. Mike Waltz is by background, someone with
Speaker 3: arguably an aggressive disposition when it comes to questions of
Speaker 3: a national defense. The first Green Beret to serve in Congress.
Speaker 3: He's also a former White House and Pentagon policy advisor.
Speaker 3: He had multiple tours in Afghanistan. He served in the
Speaker 3: Middle East and in Africa. He won four Bronze Stars.
Speaker 3: So I think given his credentials, this is the sort
Speaker 3: of person that Donald Trump will be attracted to.
Speaker 1: Coming up meeting the Ice maiden in Donald Trump's White House.
Speaker 1: Remember how Trump sacked for White House chiefs of staff
Speaker 1: in term one. Well, for term two, He's appointed a
Speaker 1: rusted on loyalist, Susie Wiles, who his re election campaign.
Speaker 1: She'll be the first woman in the job.
Speaker 3: Apparently she is one of the few people who's able
Speaker 3: to say no to Donald Trump. That's a positive quality
Speaker 3: to have in a chief of staff, Claire, but again,
Speaker 3: she's seen as someone who is loyal to him.
Speaker 4: Susie likes to stay sort of in the back.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you the ace stame.
Speaker 4: We call it the ala.
Speaker 3: We saw in the weeks leading up to the November
Speaker 3: five election, one of his former chief of staffs John Kelly,
Speaker 3: gave very damning interviews in which he discussed Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: fascist tendencies. At least according to John Kelly, he shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be not authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. He has
Speaker 2: said that, so he certainly falls into the general definition
Speaker 2: of fascist.
Speaker 3: Sure, so Donald Trump has confidence that Cuzy Wilds is
Speaker 3: a completely different, more trustworthy appointment as chief of staff,
Speaker 3: someone that he views will never engage in that sort
Speaker 3: of rehtoric or discussion about him.
Speaker 1: And Finally, Joe.
Speaker 4: Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy is somebody who ran for president himself, didn't get
Speaker 1: many votes, but on the podium while accepting victory, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump suggested that he would be put in charge of health.
Speaker 1: He didn't really outline exactly what that was going to mean. Bobby,
Speaker 1: stay away from the liquid gold, other than that go
Speaker 1: have a good time Bobby.
Speaker 3: Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Jr. Is of course an anti vaxer. He's also
Speaker 1: opposed to fluoridation of the water.
Speaker 4: I think fluoride is a poison. Ione was saying that
Speaker 4: if a fluoride drug grashes on the highway, they have
Speaker 4: to clear the highway for miles around.
Speaker 3: Robert Kennedy doesn't have much experience with the government. I
Speaker 3: spoke to Mike Green last week. So Mike Green worked
Speaker 3: for the Bush White House, he worked on campaigns for
Speaker 3: Mitt Romney, and he was pretty frank in his assessment
Speaker 3: of Robert Kennedy. Said that he would be someone that
Speaker 3: was granted access to the Oval Office, but someone at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, with very little experience about
Speaker 3: how government works. So I think Donald Trump will be
Speaker 3: cognizant of that. He'll need to be aware of the
Speaker 3: political capital and currency that Robert Kennedy brings to him
Speaker 3: after dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump. But
Speaker 3: he'll also need to be aware of the limitations of
Speaker 3: Robert Kennedy, and also he would be aware of some
Speaker 3: of the concerns over Robert Kennedy's positions in relation to vaccines.
Speaker 3: There is a lot of discussion in the American media
Speaker 3: over the last few days about Robert Kennedy's position on
Speaker 3: vaccines and the concern that is generating. So I think
Speaker 3: this is a delicate balancing act for Donald Trump to
Speaker 3: go share.
Speaker 1: Joe Kelly is The Australian's National Affairs editor. He's in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: Australia has a big decision to make about its own
Speaker 1: appointment to the court of Donald Trump, Ambassador Kevin Rudd,
Speaker 1: who's previously expressed his disdain for the President elect. For now,
Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi's standing by Rudd. You can follow the latest
Speaker 1: on that unfolding story right now at The Australian dot
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