WEBVTT - The Media Show | 11 October 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.800 Hello, Welcome to the Media Show. I'm Caroline Russo filling 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.840 in for Jack Howton. This week big show ahead as 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.040 Kamala Harris finally fronts of media with less than a 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.040 month to the US election. But it proves just one thing, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.439 the left's protection racket is truly alive and well. We'll 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.160 also take a look at the sanctimonious tials rolling out 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.640 the gender card and in exchange with the AFR. But first, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.240 the conflict in the Middle East continues to change, expand 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:32.240 and intensify. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.400 It's covered in the various. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.960 Media daily and it isn't just a substance of the 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.120 conflict itself, which is subject to analysis, but also the 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.959 veneer given to it by the media. In the lead 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.440 up to October seven, many of us were queering how 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.199 that day would be commemorated or unfortunately celebrated. Similarly, as 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.239 the war begins to focus on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.320 there's a responsibility to make. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.639 Clear that the history of that part of the. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.280 Conflict is quite distinct from the otherwise year long focus 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.520 on Gaza. In their wisdom, our friends at the National 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.039 Broadcast provided an updated guidance to journalists about how to 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:09.520 describe the fastly. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.240 Heading up battlefront in southern Lebanon. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.000 Manager of Editorial Policies for News, Mark Mayley wrote to 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.440 employees on the Middle East Conflict Guidelines with visions explaining 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:24.200 how to correctly report on ongoing conflicts, confirming that we 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.960 are now describing the current actions of Israel on the 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.800 Lebanese side of the border as a land invasion an invasion. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.600 Peter Whiteheam CO Chief of the Executive Council for Australian Jury, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.000 said that the word land invasion was a perverse twisting 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.720 of the truth. He said, the Israelis don't seek to 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.760 conquer Lebanese territory, as the word invasion falsely suggests. Their 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.680 ground campaign is a limited incursion to clear his Bla 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.440 out of southern Lebanon, as was ordered by the UN 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.240 Security Council Resolution seventeen oh one in two thousand and six. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.960 You'd think the ABC would tread a little more carefully 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.360 using such loaded words to describe an action which is 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.720 pretty clearly defensive and which has taken place after a 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.520 barrash of fire from his Bola which started on October 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.680 eight and twenty twenty three. Now the left love to 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.480 talk about context, but when they say context, they mean 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:20.000 convenient and expedient context, not necessarily objective context. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:21.560 But that's not the end of it. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.679 On the seventh of October, Soviet Ellsworth published a piece 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.720 in The Australian regarding findings made by the ABC on 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.160 Birdsman Fiona Cameron in relation to the Israeli attack in Lebanon. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.360 It's reported that the ABC has made multiple changes to 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.440 a story about Israel's attack on Lebanon after receiving complaints 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.040 claiming the article was too sympathetic to his Blah and 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.680 that it omitted relevant context and perspectives. ABC on Basman 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:53.880 Fiona Cameron received sixteen complaints about the article titled Lebanese 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.920 Australian community heartbroken over Israeli attack on Lebanon, which prompted 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.280 her to examine whether the story I met the avc's 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.960 editorial standards for impartiality and accuracy. Now In her report, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.480 she assessed the grievances made by complainants and they argued 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.240 that the article didn't stipulate that his Bala was a 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.640 list of terrorist organization and that the context for the 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.320 escalation of the conflict in Southern Lebanon was unclear. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.680 The OBBOS had said in her report that it was critical. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.120 In a standalone article that when it included comments considered 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:32.800 sensitive or contentious, the reasonableness standard requires relatively extensive efforts 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.600 being made to achieve accuracy. Ms Cameron requested that the 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.880 story be changed to reflect accuracy. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:39.480 Now. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.480 This, of course follows an enlightening episode last week, when 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.560 an ABC journalist embarked on a stunning display of false 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.360 equivalence in asking Opposition leader Peter Dutton why his BELA 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.440 was a list of terrorist organization and its flag not 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.600 allowed to be flown and wasn't that hypocritical given Israel's 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.520 actions had resulted in forty five thousand deaths and its 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.800 flags still allowed. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.160 Those are her words, not mine here. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.560 They are groups have commented on the hypocrisy of that 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.120 situation because there are no bands currently on Israeli flags 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.000 being raised, despite forty five thousand people charging at the parents. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.000 Of us any well, Israel is a democracy, It's not 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.280 run by a terrorist organization. Has Blow is a terrorist organization, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:28.360 They're a listed terrorist organization and if people are in 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.240 favor of a terrorist organization, they should declare it and 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:32.560 the authority should deal with it. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:35.880 What determiness. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.480 What determines the fact that as well as a terrrist organization, 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:41.600 even though. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.960 The men, where are you from? I'm sorry which organization? 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:46.839 ABD? 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.200 ABC? So what's the question from the ABC? Just to 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.440 be very clear, what was the question you asked? I 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.120 want you asked the question about the listing, So I 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.599 just want I want you to just ask that question again. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.240 I just sort of. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:03.600 Explain what what terrors? 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.560 Well, I had presumed up until this point at least 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.040 that the ABC supported the government's laws, and the government 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.960 has passed laws supported on a bipartisan basis, but not 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.039 by the ABC. It seems in relation to the prescribing 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.400 or the listing of a terrorist organization. HESBLA under Australian 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.239 law is a listed terrorist organization. Now, if the ABC 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.360 doesn't support that, they should be very clear about it, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.080 because I think that's quite a departure. But you asked 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:33.560 me why why why our country has listed hesblah. They're 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.120 a terrorist organization that they organized terrorist attacks. And if 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.240 that is not clear to the ABC, then I think 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.480 the ABC is in greater trouble. And even I first imagined. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.800 That was a great question. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:46.880 That was extraordinary. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.280 But what is clear is that there's an activist for 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.120 you within the ABC that is actively anti Israel and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.280 sympathetic apparently to anyone who isn't Israel, and it appears. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.440 To pollute its reporting. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.920 Joining me on the panel this week is The Australian's 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.159 Darren Davidson and Sky News contributor James Bolt. Darren, I 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.000 know there are occasionally circumstances where guidelines are given around 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.120 the publication of certain types of information. You know in 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.400 your experience, what's really important to consider when you're putting 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.040 together those sorts of guidelines. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:31.480 The objective should be neutral, balanced, facts based journalism, objective reporting. Unfortunately, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.279 the ABC has a pretty patchy record on the conflict 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.800 in the Middle East, and there's been a series of incidents, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.000 the one with Peater Dutton being the most recent, and 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.120 in fact the ABC actually distanced itself from that interview 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.640 at that event and said it wasn't a piece of 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.520 reporting and they didn't take that position that reported Turkey 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.600 in the interview Repeater Dutton. But too often I think 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.760 what we see is that the obc's reporting is very 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.960 sort of sympathetic to a narrative on one side of 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:09.120 the conflicts and will too easily, you know, take the 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:14.320 side of sympathizers, boosters and media outlets and add least 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.640 like Olgazera for example, which quite partisan, and the social 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.680 media accounts of journalists that are quite pro one side 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.920 of the conflict. And it's something that we've seen time 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.360 and time again over the last twelve months or so 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.000 now just over twelve months. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.920 And James is such a new once set of circumstances 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.679 in southern Lebanon. But using a word like invasion without 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.880 the context and the history sitting behind it really feels 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:41.800 like fuel on the fire. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.200 Yeah, it's the kind of reporting you do when you 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.640 think there's only one side to a conflict. And I 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.520 honestly feel that conservatives and liberals are just we just 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.600 end up playing whack a mole with the ABC. The 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.640 mole of ABC bias pops up, we whack it and 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.440 it disappears back into a machine, biding its time until 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.000 it can show itself again. And I think the only 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.280 way out of this situation is if the coalition front 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.400 up and say we should privatize the ABC. There's simply 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.120 no reason for it to keep going because of the 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.880 buyers it has and also just the media landscape is 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.239 completely different. We're just destined to just have these stories 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.840 come up of us getting angry at the ABC, them 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.600 going away, coming back with even more biased until we 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.239 can finally start to privatize the ABC. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.760 Yeah, I think there are plenty of people at home 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.360 nodding their heads in agreement the James Now. Last week, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.840 the AFR published a side story to the AFRs Afar 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.680 magazine's Power List Now. The yarn related to a legrispender 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.480 apparently attending the afr's officers in Parliament House to request 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.840 that Simon Holmes the Court be removed from the list 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.320 because he didn't want to be on it. Apparently that 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.520 didn't come as a surprise to our friends at the AFR, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.280 because a staffer of Zoe Daniel had already run the 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:02.280 AFRs officers with the same request. AFR declined, obviously, but 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.920 it didn't end there. Later, Miss Daniel released a missive 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.120 about the incident, in which he takes a swing at 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.280 the AFR, suggesting that the call was made out of 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.200 a concern that the paper plan to imply in its 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.560 power liss that Simon Holmes the Court holds a position 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.400 of male power over female community independence on the crossbench. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.280 It goes on to say it's a sexist. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.080 Trope that fails to recognize the rise of independence is 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.319 a reflection of powering communities or power of communities. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.439 My apologies, and I. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.720 Would encourage the media, particularly the male reporters at the AFAR, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:41.080 to update their attitudes to women in leadership. Well, the 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.600 irony is that everything that is apparently implied by the 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.440 paper is what the rest of us can see with 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.240 our lying eyes. The reporters at the AFAR don't need 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.439 to necessarily update their attitudes to women. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.920 The teals just need to go easy on the revisionism. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.680 This would have to be one of the most self 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.440 serving and stunning uses of the gender car I have 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:01.080 ever seen. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.360 Anyway, here we are, Darren. Look, we've all watched the 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.319 rise of the tials. Look this carry on. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.720 About local gows winning their seats off their own steam 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.360 and gold coin donations. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.480 It's a bit cute, isn't it. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.199 Yeah, Look, your gender discrimination is a really serious issue, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.600 and I think the antics of the tials risks turning 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.520 issue into a laughing stock. I think the other point 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.240 to make about all of this is that the irony 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.720 of the intervention about a secret list that the Financial 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.280 Review rightly keeps it as a closely guarded secret until 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.080 they actually publish that list. It's that some people may 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:46.199 now be more prone to thinking that the Tills we're 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.600 doing the bidding of a rich man than they were before. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.640 And they kind of inevertently you put a spotlight on 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.199 something that would have been missed by everybody else ordinarily, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.640 so bit of an amateur hour kind of intervention from them. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.320 And as I said as well, I think you know 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.360 it's a serious issue gender discrimination and it's not exactly 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.840 modeling good behavior for one gender by behaving like that, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.320 and you know, kind of chrome wolf about sexism at 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:19.880 the first hints of criticism. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.480 James, Look, there's a whole heap of carry on in 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.840 the statement about miss Daniel apparently not knowing the call 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.720 was made, and that it was made by a former 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.480 staffer who's now a casual consultant. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.199 That doesn't really make it go away, right, it's still 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:32.560 a yarn. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.239 No, No, Zoe Daniels, Right, this is all a complete coincidence. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.000 We have this casual consultant, out of the goodness of 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.040 their heart, calling up the AFR and just saying, hey, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.319 can you do this donor to my boss a favor, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.440 completely coincidentally. And then when they get told and an 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.880 even bigger coincidence, Alegraspender herself comes down and says, can 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.559 you please get Simon Holmes Accord off the list? These 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.560 are just all complete coincidences. They're great coincidences. It's as 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.760 big a coincidence as all of these independent MPs linking 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.679 together in a way that kind of often reflects the 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.360 values of Simon Holmes the Court and voting against the 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.600 interests of the Liberal Party also completely coincidental. And to 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.079 be honest, I hope this is a coincidence because if 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.160 it isn't, Simon Holmes at Court wanted to downplay how 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.760 much covert power he operates in Australian politics by asking 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.080 a democratically elected member of Parliament to go to a 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.960 paper to ask them to change reporting. Not exactly how 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.880 I would say you should downplay your power by having 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.200 a federal MP save you a phone call. But I'll 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.120 tell you what if Simon Holmes the Court does want 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.520 to say, look, I'm not powerful, You're completely overcooking it. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.120 I'm not the kind of guy, you think I am. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.440 I think the best thing for him to do would 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.000 be to stop donating to any tl MP in the 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.920 next election. Let them show that they can get elected 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.480 on their own merits and their own work in the community, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.520 and that will show that Simon Holmes Court is a 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:59.240 complete nothing. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.000 Couldn't have said it better myself. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.960 Look, we'll take a break and when we're back, Kamala 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.160 Harris finally fronts the media, but it just proves the 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:16.439 left protection racket is alive and well, welcome back. Now 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.360 the US presidential election is fast approaching and Kamala Harris 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.520 is finally out and about doing interviews. Well, I say interviews, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.679 but they're more like word cuddles on camera, like this 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:27.840 one with Stephen Colbert. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.280 You first became the nominee and named Tim Walls as 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.120 your vice president nominee. People are calling it the vibe election. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.559 Every Well, the vibes were all good, but elections I 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.560 think are one on vibes because one of the old 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.720 saws is they just want somebody they're can have a 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.880 beer with. So would you like to have a beer 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.840 with me? So I can tell people what that's like. Okay, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.559 this was Now we asked ahead of time, because I 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.160 can't just be given a drink to the vice president. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.440 I says, let's ask me. You asked for Miller Filo. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.880 I'm just curious. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:02.360 Okay. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.119 The last time I had beer was at a baseball 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.520 game with Dougs. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:18.120 There you go, ooh, it's like a beautiful city of Milwaukee. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.920 Give me strength, hardly hot hitting. Well, this one with 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:26.320 the view. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.080 Would you have done something differently than President Biden during 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.680 the past four years? There is not a thing that 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.280 comes to mind in terms of and I've been a 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.280 part of most of the decisions that have had impact. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.040 The work that we have done, For example, capping the 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.280 cost of insulin at thirty five dollars a month for 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.840 our seniors is something I care deeply about about allowing 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.360 Medicare to negotiate drug prices and bring the cost of 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.880 prescription medication down for seniors. But my intention is to 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.400 expand that for all Americans. The work we have done 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.120 to invest in American industries, whether it be in terms 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.800 of manufacturing and creating almost eight hundred thousand new jobs 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.760 around manufacturing, those are all a shared priority. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.480 Nothing she would have done differently, huh not? 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.280 The wide open southern border, spiking illegal immigration, the flood 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.000 of fentanyl, or the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.560 Interesting flex. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.440 I assume she's just hoping the audience isn't that politically 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.040 engaged and hasn't noticed the fact their standard of living 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.920 in the US has nose dive in the. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.320 Last three years. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.880 But to be fair, in the interview Kamala Harris did 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.720 with sixty minutes, there were parts where she was pressed 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.400 for answers and it just shows her like a match fitness. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.040 I've been covering the border for years and so I 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.280 know this is not a. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:53.240 Problem that started with your administration, correct, But there was 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:59.360 an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.840 the first three years of your administration. As a matter 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:08.440 of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.840 Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:15.760 much as you did. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.840 It's a long standing problem and solutions are at hand, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:25.840 and from day one, literally we have been offering solutions. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.840 What I was asking was, was it a mistake to 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.440 kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place? 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.400 Say, the policies that we have been proposing are about 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.720 fixing a problem, not promoting a problem. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.920 Okay, but the numbers did quadruple, and. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.440 The numbers today because of what we have done. We 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:52.200 have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.120 have done the flow of sentinel by half. But we 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:01.680 need Congress to be able to act to actually fix. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:02.560 The problem. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:05.840 That was on Toddy. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.119 I love how it's now well Congress's fault anyway, That 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.040 said one savvy observa. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.600 I noticed these, but. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.479 It seems that Prime Minister net and Yah who is 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.600 not listening. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.320 Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:29.040 in a number of movements in that region by Israel 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:34.840 that were very much prompted by or a result of 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.960 many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:39.520 in the region. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.360 But it seems that Prime Minister net and Yah who 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:43.639 is not listening. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.520 We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.800 the United States to be clear about where we stand 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.160 on the need for this war to end. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:18:01.600 That looks like a big mess. James, you're a producer. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:02.639 How does that even happen? 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.479 It happens because CBS appeared to have put their personal 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.280 advocacy at such a center point of their thinking that 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.960 they're very happy to become Kamala's PR team. But there's 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.679 a bigger issue here, which is that even with what 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.720 appears to be selective editing, and even with the friendliest 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.320 interviews that she can possibly have, these are still awful 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.120 answers from an un serious candidate. I mean the clip 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.240 you just played there, I wrote it down. The work 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.800 we have done has resulted in movements that sounds like 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.000 an AI generated LinkedIn influencer, and you wants to play 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.560 the view clip and the Colbert clip. And I thought 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.320 that view clip was very telling because she's asked, very clearly, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.879 what would you have done differently in the last four years? Now, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.720 keep in mind Kamala Harris is trying to put herself 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.840 as the change candidate. Her phrase is we can't go 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.119 back now. For her to say that she wouldn't have 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.639 done anything differently over the last four years is a 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.639 complete reversal of that entire thinking. So she's given a 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.000 couple of hours to reassess, Okay, what else do I 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.520 want to say? What else would I have done? And 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.280 she goes on Stephen Colbert and she's asked again, what 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.800 would you have done differently and she still can't come 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.439 up with anything. It is mind boggling how bad she 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.000 is at friendly interviews. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.520 The thing is there, I suppose, James, is you know, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.920 she's trying to pitch herself almost as if she's been 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.600 in opposition and she's going to be new and different. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.040 When you say things like I wouldn't have done everything 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.919 anything differently, and I was involved in that decision making, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.119 it becomes very very difficult then to try and frame 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:33.240 yourself as this new fresh frat face Darren. As James said, Look, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.760 she's not great at interviews. She can do the fluff, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.280 but I thought it was really interesting her face. She 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.080 just looks terrified when someone presses her. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.120 She really does. I mean, this is kind of her 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:51.040 version of Biden's twenty twenty basement campaign, safe appearances, feel 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:57.240 good vibes, kind of vague generalities and platitudes. It worked 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.120 for a time in reassuring that Democrats after they were 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.000 so demoralized by what was happening with Biden towards the 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.879 end there, but it's clearly not working anymore. You know, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.120 you're seeing in the battleground states that Trump is starting 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.240 to make some gains. She looks like she's plateaued in 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.920 the polls for the first time after having that nice, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:23.040 big spike after she became the nominee. I think what 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.800 it kind of shows is that she's captive to the 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.800 hard left of the party and her party's policies, much 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.800 like Biden. And that's a big flaw because many of 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.320 those policies are very unpopular. We're voters. So I think 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.760 this is a bit of a turning point. And as 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.320 you say, it's incredible that she you know, she can't 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:48.560 even answer these questions with her sympavisers in the American media, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.120 which is most pretty much most of the media in America. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.320 It's incredibly left leaning. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:55.280 Absolutely. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.399 Now, before we finish up, I want to quickly get 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.000 to your stories of the week. It would be remiss 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.480 of me if I didn't have tip talk back Titan 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.640 John Laws, who want announced his retirement at ninety one 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:06.560 years of age. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.120 That man has had an unmatched innings. Now, Darren, let's 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:11.479 start with you. What's your story. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.119 It's a story from one of my own journalists. Sorry, 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.560 so it's a bit self serving, but it just shows 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:20.320 the power of having someone on the ground in the 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.400 Middle East. We've got two journalists, Yanni and Liam, who 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.199 actually returned last night from Israel. They were over there 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.280 for the anniversary, and much like Shariot Sky, they've done 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.439 some incredible on the ground reporting and this is a 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.560 story that Yanni did with this tragic story, this poor 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:42.360 father who was in the historic southern Israel city of Yaffa, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.679 really really sad tale, but there are some sort of 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.040 bright spots and positive things in the story, and it's 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.080 just an incredible piece on the ground reporting from Yanni 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:55.960 and Liam, and well done to them for the incredible 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:57.560 work they've done. And I was at Sky over the 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.160 last few weeks over there on the ground in the region. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.720