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Speaker 1: On scors Australia. This is the Rider Panete Show.

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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahi Show. I'm

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Speaker 2: Caroline Marcus filling in for Rita. Coming up tonight. Five

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Speaker 2: members of the Iranian women's soccer team now safe after

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Speaker 2: fleeing their hotel late last night. Daniel Wilde will join

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Speaker 2: me on that and the day's other top headlines. Ozzie's

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Speaker 2: kept in the dark when it comes to data on

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Speaker 2: puberty blockers. Stephanie Bastian will explain that, and the latest

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Speaker 2: scandal involving the ABC New York mayor's or own mum.

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Speaker 2: Danny is considering getting rid of all free parking in

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Speaker 2: the city after running his campaign on making everything free.

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Speaker 2: Koshagada will weigh in and fears for Britney Spears's mental

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Speaker 2: health after she was caught.

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Speaker 3: Driving under the influence.

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Speaker 2: Loftis will cover that and the latest entertainment news. And

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Speaker 2: in Lefties Losing It, activists get Scissa happy in protest

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Speaker 2: of ice, which.

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Speaker 4: Is the first American flag I've ever owned, and I'm

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Speaker 4: about to shred it.

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Speaker 2: But let's begin with the five members of the Iranian

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Speaker 2: women's soccer team who have now been granted humanitarian visas

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Speaker 2: after escaping a.

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Speaker 3: Gold Coast hotel.

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Speaker 2: Late last night with the help of Australian Federal Police.

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Speaker 2: The players reportedly slipped past official team minders suspected of

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Speaker 2: being Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials, shortly before seven pm,

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Speaker 2: seeking protection from local authorities. They're now being held in

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Speaker 2: a safe house in Brisbane, while Home Affairs has refuted

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Speaker 2: reports of another three players fleeing the team hotel.

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Speaker 3: I just love this. The five players broke out into

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Speaker 3: azi azzi azzi Oi oi oi.

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Speaker 2: When they were told they could stay. Home Affairs Minister

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Speaker 2: Tony Burke said other members of the team are being

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Speaker 2: offered the same chance to apply for asylum.

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Speaker 5: I signed off last night for their applications to go

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Speaker 5: on to humanitarian visas. I say to the other members

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Speaker 5: of the team, the same opportunity is there. Australia has

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Speaker 5: taken the Iranian women's soccer team into our hearts, but.

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Speaker 2: This move was only announced after a phone call between

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Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi. President

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Speaker 2: Trump had posted to truth Social overnight Australia is making

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Speaker 2: a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's

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Speaker 2: soccer team to be forced back to Iran where they

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Speaker 2: will most likely be ki. Don't do it, mister Prime Minister,

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Speaker 2: give asylum. The US will take them if you won't.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter. But there

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Speaker 2: was a very different post from Trump after the phone

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Speaker 2: call he had with Prime Minister Anthony Alberzi. The President

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Speaker 2: now writing, I just spoke to Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi

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Speaker 2: of Australia concerning the Iranian women's soccer team.

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Speaker 3: He's on it.

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Speaker 2: Five have already been taken care of, and the rest

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Speaker 2: are on their way. Some, however, feel they must go

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Speaker 2: back because they are worried about the safety of their families,

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Speaker 2: including threats to those family members if they don't return.

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Speaker 2: In any event, the Prime Minister is doing a very

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Speaker 2: good job having to do with this rather delicate situation.

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Speaker 2: God bless Australia well. Joining me now is the Deputy

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Speaker 2: Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, Daniel Wilde.

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Speaker 3: Daniel, this is a welcome.

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Speaker 2: Result, no doubt for these players, although concern does remain

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Speaker 2: for the welfare of the other players heading back to

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Speaker 2: a run where they've been branded wartime.

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Speaker 3: Traders, But it is a real shift.

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Speaker 2: In the government's response to this from earlier in this

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Speaker 2: whole saga. You'll remember the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs,

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Speaker 2: Matt this Alweit had said that the players would not

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Speaker 2: be given preferential treatment. What do you think was behind

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Speaker 2: this apparent change of heart? Was it US intervention here

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Speaker 2: or do you think the government had been working all

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Speaker 2: along towards this.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a couple of things.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it does look like the US is intervening

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Speaker 6: in our domestic affairs, trying to dictate our immigration policy,

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Speaker 6: and you know, it should be the Australian government that

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Speaker 6: has sovereignty over what arrangements can be made. So it's

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Speaker 6: hard to avoid the conclusion that Anthony Abernezi is kowtowing

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Speaker 6: to the Trump administration, which is an interesting turn of events.

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Speaker 6: I think in terms of the domestic side of it, well,

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Speaker 6: I think it's good and positive that we're able to

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Speaker 6: welcome people who are under a threat from their home country.

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Speaker 6: But it's difficult to see this as anything other than political.

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Speaker 6: You know, the migration policy of this government has in

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Speaker 6: the main been driven by political considerations rather than humanitarian,

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Speaker 6: economic or social consideration, So that would have been very

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Speaker 6: much the rubric. I guarantee you they would have had

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Speaker 6: as to where these people are going to be resettled.

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Speaker 6: That's how this government works, and I doubt that this

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Speaker 6: is any different two past decisions they've taken.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how popular the decision would be in some

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Speaker 2: of the seats that labor ministers like Tony Boke himself holds,

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Speaker 2: because we've seen a lot of those seats be threatened

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Speaker 2: by the rise of Muslim independents who've supported the pro

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Speaker 2: Palestine movement, but they haven't been very active or vocal

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Speaker 2: at all when it comes to protecting their reigning regime.

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Speaker 2: I tend to think that in this case, it is

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Speaker 2: the right move from the government and a bit of

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Speaker 2: a departure from previous moves where they haven't exactly been

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Speaker 2: things like Gaza for instance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well, the one thing I know is Tony Burke wouldn't

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Speaker 6: do it if it didn't suit Tony Burke, So you

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Speaker 6: know that much is clear, you know, And I think

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Speaker 6: it's a shame because Australians don't have any confidence in

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Speaker 6: our migration system overall because it has been used for

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Speaker 6: political purposes. I'm not saying every single decision has been

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Speaker 6: taken for that reason.

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Speaker 1: But a lot have.

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Speaker 6: And you know, the other concern I have here is

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Speaker 6: that we don't want to see a double standard. We

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Speaker 6: people who are in genuine need off refuge should be

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Speaker 6: welcomed into our country. But that shouldn't just be because

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Speaker 6: they're in a sporting team. And I certainly hope that

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Speaker 6: this decision hasn't just been taken because it's high profile

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Speaker 6: and it's going to get a lot of media interest

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Speaker 6: in that fact, because there could be many other worthy

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Speaker 6: people that are now being excluded from coming to our

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Speaker 6: country who may be even more needy than those who

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Speaker 6: the Iranian soccer team. So I hate to think that

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Speaker 6: this is being done simply because it's a high profile

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Speaker 6: case that gets good publicity.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's a large part of it, but

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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone can deny that these women were

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Speaker 2: at one of their first games, they faced horrible consequences

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Speaker 1: Look.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, President Trump provided an update earlier today, saying the

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Speaker 2: US has achieved major strides towards completing its military objective

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Speaker 2: in Iran, with every single force wiped out.

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Speaker 8: We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and

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Speaker 8: people could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped every

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Speaker 8: single force in Iran out very completely. Most of Iran's

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Speaker 8: naval power has been sunk. It's in the bottom of

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Speaker 2: Iranian state television has also reported the country's newly installed

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Speaker 2: Supreme Leader ma Shabahamane was wounded during the ongoing conflict,

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Speaker 2: although it's not clear exactly when that happened. Dan, do

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Speaker 2: you see this conflict being over anytime soon or do

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Speaker 2: you share the concerns of some of Trump's critics many

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Speaker 2: in the US that this could be a forever war.

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope Trump's right.

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Speaker 6: I hope it is near completion because it was a

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Speaker 6: good move to take out the Iranian regime and to

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Speaker 6: stop their nuclear program.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt doubt about that.

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Speaker 6: The big question has always been, as it always is

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Speaker 6: in any of these cases, is well, what comes next?

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Speaker 6: And so you know, we saw with Iraq, which I

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Speaker 6: think was a justifiable intervention to start with, but the

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Speaker 6: question was, well what do you do when you're removed

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Speaker 6: that avasane and they tried to implement democratic institutions, which

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Speaker 1: So that's the big question here.

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Speaker 6: And I understand the reservations that some have, particularly those

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Speaker 6: get drawn into a protracted conflict. So if Trump is

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Speaker 6: able to draw a line underneath it, you'd have to

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Speaker 6: say he's done a remarkable job in being able to

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Speaker 6: execute a discrete and targeted military objective without getting the

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Speaker 6: US drawn into a broader regional conflict. That would be

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Speaker 6: an outstanding and very rare achievement. So if he has

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Speaker 6: done that, or if he can draw that to a close,

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Speaker 6: you know, he gets a ten out of ten for it.

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Speaker 1: I certainly hope that's the case.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope.

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Speaker 7: So.

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Speaker 2: Albanizy has also announced Australia will send missiles, EIGHTYF personnel

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Speaker 2: attack from Iranian drones and missiles, but the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: what do you make of that announcement? Should we be

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Speaker 6: From my perspective, it looks like a pretty good approach,

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Speaker 6: a pretty balanced approach to start with. I don't know

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Speaker 6: what the US has asked of us. Perhaps they asked

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Speaker 6: the US is our most important ally. That has been

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Speaker 6: to be a good, reliable and dependable ally. And if

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Speaker 6: the US has requested this of us, I'm not just

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Speaker 6: saying we do whatever the US wants, but we need

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Speaker 6: US has made it clear that this contribution will make

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Speaker 6: a difference to that effort, then this is a very

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Speaker 6: good move. So we'll wait and see whether anything else

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Speaker 6: is requested. I don't think that our troops should go there,

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Speaker 6: certainly not at this stage. So to me, on the

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Speaker 6: face of it, it seems like a reasonable balance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'd have to say that Trump has spoken

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Speaker 2: very highly of Anthony ALBINIZI if he wasn't meeting the

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Speaker 2: demands from the United States of this, I think we

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Speaker 2: would hear about it. The war is also sparking huge

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Speaker 2: fears meanwhile about Australia's economic stability. There are concerns that

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Speaker 2: inflation in Australia could jump as high as five percent

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Speaker 2: in coming months due to the petrol supply crunch. But

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Speaker 2: what's Treasurer Jim Chalmers's biggest concern at the moment changes

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Speaker 2: to the capital gains tax discount.

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Speaker 3: The Australian reports.

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Speaker 2: Treasury is modeling scrapping the entire capital gains tax discount

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Speaker 2: on investment properties and replacing it with a flat tax

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Speaker 2: and indexation. Daniel, has the government got its priorities right here.

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Speaker 1: Look at this very point in time. Probably not.

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Speaker 6: I am intrigued though about the flat tax. I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure if that refers to personal income or something else.

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Speaker 1: But certainly if they're saying they're going to.

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Speaker 6: Remove the negative gearing or the capital gains tax benefits

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Speaker 6: and to replace that with a flat income tax with

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Speaker 6: the e come tax rates to be indexed. I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure you'd need indexation of its flat, but anyway, that

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Speaker 6: could be something to look at. You know, the problem

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Speaker 2: of advocacy now, Stephanie Bass, Stephanie, good to see you.

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Speaker 2: We spoke earlier in the program about the Iranian women's

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Speaker 10: I mean, we have protection visas for situations like this,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the former liberal health ministers who've called

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, this is a huge scandal. I mean, we call

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Speaker 9: The side effects of these drugs.

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Speaker 10: It is completely unacceptable that they're not keeping recalled. There

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some shroud of secrecy around this issue is ludicrous.

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Speaker 3: What's happening in this.

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Speaker 10: No, I've got absolutely no doubt in my mind, nor

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Speaker 2: No application was made to the court to extend the

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Speaker 10: And even the daughter felt that her own mother was

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Speaker 2: Feminists for Palestine attack Iranians protesting for women's rights under

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Speaker 1: Saying this because it's on my mind.

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Speaker 12: The trans children who.

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Speaker 13: Showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for

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Speaker 13: their humanity.

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Speaker 2: Right, you love trans children. That's not crippy at all. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: he's a transgender adults calling for activists to target a

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Speaker 2: US boutique after being rejected for a job the store,

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Speaker 2: pointing out it only hires women to help dress girls

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Speaker 2: and women in their changing rooms.

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Speaker 13: One it's Emily, I'm here at the Wheaton Mountains in Wheaton, Maryland,

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Speaker 13: and despite this store being hiring, you have beautiful justices.

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Speaker 1: I just went in and asked if I could be hired.

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Speaker 9: And they told me that I couldn't because.

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Speaker 12: I'm not a woman and only a woman can work

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Speaker 12: at that job.

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Speaker 4: So Cinderella in the.

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Speaker 1: Wheaten Mall, you're on notice.

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Speaker 2: Sorry again, not creepy it ll Meanwhile, an artist called

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Speaker 2: Cricket has cut up the American flag out of anger

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Speaker 2: at us.

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Speaker 12: This is the first American flag I've ever owned, and

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Speaker 12: I'm about to shred it.

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Speaker 2: Someone please remove all sharp instruments from that individual. Cricket, though,

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Speaker 2: is now planning to make a cozy quilt with the

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Speaker 2: shredded flag and patches with the names of illegal aliens

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Speaker 2: who've lost their lives in ICE custody, as well as

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Speaker 2: protesters who were killed during anti ice action, but nothing

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Speaker 2: with the names of Americans killed by illegal aliens.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 2: Now check out this Canadian tiktoker's foulmouth plea for someone

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Speaker 2: to take out Trump over his operation to disarm the

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Speaker 2: truly evil Iranian regime, while throwing in the old libel

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Speaker 2: he's a pedophile for good measure.

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Speaker 4: Can Anybody tell me why this world is headed into

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Speaker 4: World War three just to protect a pedophile piece of.

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Speaker 3: Why somebody take him out?

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope she's never allowed over the border now.

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Speaker 2: Tucker Carson is by no means a lefty. It's what

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Speaker 2: I would call the new woke right. But his latest

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Speaker 2: take on Trump's military action in Iran is so unhinged

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Speaker 2: you have to now admit the man has well and

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Speaker 2: truly lost it.

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Speaker 14: Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife

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Speaker 14: and daughter if they want, and everyone knows that, and

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Speaker 14: that has been if there's one consistent lesson of history means,

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Speaker 14: unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife

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Speaker 14: and daughter. Everyone can feel that.

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Speaker 2: That is bonkers and I am truly lost for words.

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Speaker 3: But speaking of bonkers.

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Speaker 2: Check out these useful idiots at a Feminists for Palestine

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Speaker 2: rally in London over the weekend, screeching at Iranian dissidents

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Speaker 2: fighting for women back home living under real oppression. Way,

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Speaker 2: maybe these feminists should try protesting in Iran and see

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Speaker 2: how long they last there. But let's finish now with

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Speaker 2: a few words from the CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby.

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Speaker 2: He joined the Katie Miller podcast where he claimed his

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Speaker 2: company only hired pilots on merit.

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Speaker 6: How do you reassure passengers that says who's flying your

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Speaker 6: plane is the one for the job, who is qualified

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Speaker 6: at his merit based.

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Speaker 15: So I can't speak the FA but I can speak

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Speaker 15: to United and by the way, I can speak the

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Speaker 15: whole airline industry when I say this, we hire based

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Speaker 15: on merit and we only hire the best.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good, but that seems very different to what he

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Speaker 2: has said previously during an interview with Axios five years ago.

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Speaker 13: We have committed that fifty percent of the class of

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Speaker 13: the classes will be women are people of color. Today,

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Speaker 13: only nineteen percent of our pilots at United Airlines are

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Speaker 13: women or people of color, and by the way, from

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Speaker 13: all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any

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Speaker 13: airline in the country. One of the things we do

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Speaker 13: is for every job, when we're doing an interview or

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Speaker 13: require women and people of color to be involved in

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Speaker 13: the interview process, bringing people in early in their careers

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Speaker 13: as well and giving them those opportunities.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, Scott, the internet has a long memory. Well.

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Speaker 2: Joining me now is Sky Andese contributor Kosher Gada.

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Speaker 3: And let's get back to that top.

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Speaker 2: Story about the Iranian women's soccer team we mentioned earlier

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Speaker 2: in the show. Donald Trump had praised the Prime minister

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Speaker 2: for his role in securing the safety of some of

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Speaker 2: these players, but that praise came after Trump had earlier

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Speaker 2: accused Australia making a terrible mistake by letting these women

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Speaker 2: go back to Iran and implore to Albanizi to give

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Speaker 2: them asylum. Kosha, do you think the President helped to

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Speaker 2: change Australia's mind here after this reported forty minute conversation

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Speaker 2: on the phone between the leaders, or had he just

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Speaker 2: not been made aware of the back channel work that

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Speaker 2: was already in place to help these women.

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Speaker 16: I think it's a fair assumption to make. I mean,

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Speaker 16: we'll never know the intricacies of the timeline and how

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Speaker 16: much backchanneling was happening that President Trump was or wasn't

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Speaker 16: aware of. But I think if the President of the

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Speaker 16: United States goes on social media and publicly names and

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Speaker 16: shames another world leader, prime Minister Aben Easy in this case,

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Speaker 16: and chastising him for not doing more or not doing

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Speaker 16: it more quickly, I'd have to imagine that that had

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Speaker 16: some effect and at least turning up the pressure the heat,

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Speaker 16: even if maybe that was already in process. And he

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Speaker 16: certainly called global attention to it and amplified the issue

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Speaker 16: on the world stage in a way that only he can.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: True, and you know, the language from the government had

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Speaker 2: been really cautious about this issue, and that even initially delied.

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Speaker 3: One minister had delied that.

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Speaker 2: They could give preferential treatment to these soccer players.

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Speaker 3: So it was a real shift.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump in the US has now been demanding that

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Speaker 2: Senate Republicans ram his voter id laws through the upper

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Speaker 2: chamber and a truth Social post another one. He went

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Speaker 2: so far as to say he won't sign other bills

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Speaker 2: until this one is passed. Now it comes as the

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Speaker 2: US Senate is wrestling with reopening the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 2: It's entered its fourth week of shutdown. A White House

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Speaker 2: official had to clarify to Fox News that Trump wasn't

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Speaker 2: referring to the Department when he made his comment about

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Speaker 2: not passing bills. Kosher, what is this whole thing all about.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, so there's two issues over there that you know,

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Speaker 16: sort of get mixed and they're related. But the issue

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Speaker 16: that Trump is maximizing pressure on is passing the so

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Speaker 16: called Save Act that would mandate proof of citizenship in

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Speaker 16: order for confirming that the person trying to vote is

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Speaker 16: actually you a citizen and therefore has the right to vote.

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Speaker 16: It's an eighty twenty issue. There are many of those

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Speaker 16: in the country. That's very divided right now, very very popular,

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Speaker 16: and even though the Republicans the House and the Senate

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Speaker 16: and the White House, they've been really really slow and

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Speaker 16: dragging their feet to bring this to the floor in

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Speaker 16: the Senate. It has passed the House, and now the

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Speaker 16: Senate needs to bring it to the floor. There's all

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Speaker 16: sorts of machinations and horse trading supposedly going on behind

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Speaker 16: the scenes, and it's just another reminder of how a

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Speaker 16: big faction of the Republican Party is not really that

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Speaker 16: supportive of the Trump agenda. The more establishment wing. They're

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Speaker 16: sort of dragged along, kicking and screaming. The Department of

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Speaker 16: Homeland Security issue is separate, where they've been mired in

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Speaker 16: controversy a little bit. The Secretary Gnome has been removed

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Speaker 16: from her position.

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Speaker 3: There were those.

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Speaker 16: Bad events that happened in Minneapolis recently, So they're just

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Speaker 16: trying to use that the Democrats, I think, to make

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Speaker 16: hay of that situation and sort of hold the funding

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Speaker 16: of that department hostage. But that is separate from the

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Speaker 16: Save Act and a few other things that President Trump

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Speaker 16: is putting in there, and he is saying that that

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Speaker 16: is existential. It is fundamental to the country's security and

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Speaker 16: democracy and sovereignty. Get it done. Don't show me any

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Speaker 16: other bill until this has past.

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Speaker 2: You'd think it would be fairly straightforward. People have to

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Speaker 2: show their idea if.

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Speaker 3: They want to vote.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those issues that seem strange to us

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Speaker 2: here in Australia, where we have compulsory voting and people

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Speaker 2: need to be registered and show their idea. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: a video has gone viral of Congressman Brian Mask questioning

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Speaker 2: a State Department official over Biden era grants. The DEI

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Speaker 2: programs around the world take a look as she tries

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Speaker 2: and fails to explain what she means by making a

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Speaker 2: map more gay?

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Speaker 3: But what is queering the map?

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Speaker 11: So I think we were trying to make the maps

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Speaker 11: more gay.

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Speaker 3: Literally, well, how do you make a map more gay?

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Speaker 11: I mean, especially we're gay. You know, since the age

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Speaker 11: of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they

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Speaker 11: weren't gay enough.

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Speaker 3: So I know.

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Speaker 11: Also, I took critical theory in college. I think sometimes

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Speaker 11: people use queer as a verb. I do understand that

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Speaker 11: the maps that we were trying to make gay were

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Speaker 11: I think of Chukia and Slova, so maybe those countries

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Speaker 11: asked for it. I doubt it, but I don't.

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Speaker 3: Know kosher, I mean, this is loopy.

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Speaker 2: Can we just go back to how can a map

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Speaker 2: be gay in the first place?

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Speaker 16: You and me, both Carolina are scratching our heads and

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Speaker 16: millions of other people. I thought for a moment when

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Speaker 16: she referenced her credential and whatever degree she had, I

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Speaker 16: forget what it was, but I was thinking, maybe it's

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Speaker 16: like English, Lid, and she's going back to old world English.

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Speaker 3: We're gay and happy, and she's trying to make the

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Speaker 3: maps happy. I don't know.

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Speaker 16: I really wasn't a.

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Speaker 3: Lot, she said, referring to there. But yeah's disappointed and clarified.

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Speaker 16: Yes, it's you know, it's just an example of the

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Speaker 16: money that was slashing around for many years, actually even

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Speaker 16: before Biden, but certainly accelerated under Biden. Usaid all these

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Speaker 16: DEI programs all over the world. There's like a gay

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Speaker 16: friendly Sesame Street episode somewhere in the Middle East, and

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Speaker 16: then Irish dancing that was queer, and now this, and

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Speaker 16: the second story beneath that is not only is this

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Speaker 16: pushing an agenda that nobody wants globally using taxpayer dollars,

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Speaker 16: but also a lot of the NGOs and entities that

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Speaker 16: push that have been enriching themselves in the process with

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Speaker 16: that money. And when you have thirty seven trillion dollars

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Speaker 16: in debt in a country and then you see this,

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Speaker 16: it really makes people's blood boil.

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Speaker 3: Understandably.

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Speaker 2: The NYPD has provided an update on these improvised bombs

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Speaker 2: that were hurled outside the New York City Mayor's residence,

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Speaker 2: confirming that their belief the two suspects.

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Speaker 3: Were inspired by ISIS.

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Speaker 2: And had planned for an attack deadlier than the Boston

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Speaker 2: Marathon bombing.

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Speaker 17: Cayumi said in recorded post arrest statements that he had

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Speaker 17: watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions

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Speaker 17: that day were partly inspired by ISIS. A lot made

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Speaker 17: spontaneous statements without being questioned by NYPD officers that were

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Speaker 17: captured on body worn camera footage. She said, this isn't

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Speaker 17: religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed

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Speaker 17: name of the prophet, we take action. We take action

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Speaker 17: as well as if I didn't do it somewhere else,

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Speaker 17: someone else will come and do it.

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Speaker 2: But Kosha New York Mayazar on Mom Donnie is still

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Speaker 2: trying to link this allegedly Islamist attack to white supremacy.

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Speaker 7: A protest was held outside Gracie Mansion where I live

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Speaker 7: with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at

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Speaker 7: the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy,

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Speaker 7: entitled stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City Kosher.

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Speaker 2: The mental gymnastics involves here to blame white people off

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Speaker 2: of what police say was an ISIS attack is quite remarkable.

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Speaker 3: It really is.

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Speaker 16: He is twisting himself into a pretzel there, and that

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Speaker 16: won't age well because right now the FBI is widening

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Speaker 16: its probe into these two assailants. Where a second generation

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Speaker 16: Americans born and raised in America. Their parents immigrated from

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Speaker 16: Afghanistan and Turkey, and supposedly they had more ie D's

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Speaker 16: built or in the process of being built in their residences.

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Speaker 16: They grew up by the way in middle class to

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Speaker 16: upper middle class affluent neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and another jurisdiction,

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Speaker 16: and that's where now the FBI is going. So this

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Speaker 16: story is going to develop more and that comment of

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Speaker 16: trying to frame it as white supremacy is going to

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Speaker 16: make Mayor mum Donnie look pretty foolish. I think obviously

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Speaker 16: he doesn't want to admit the religious undertone there or

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Speaker 16: the connective tissue given you know, that's obviously his background

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Speaker 16: of what he ran on. If he were smart, which

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Speaker 16: I think he is. I don't think he's dumb. He's

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Speaker 16: actually very savvy politically, he probably would have been better

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Speaker 16: off going with an argument that, oh, look, this is

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Speaker 16: blowback from the Iran War, which is one of many

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Speaker 16: things that you know, people who are not happy with

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Speaker 16: the war because it remains very controversial site. He would

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Speaker 16: have been better going in that direction rather than trying

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Speaker 16: to brand it as white supremacy and looking like a fool,

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Speaker 16: which is what he does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very strange. I mean, it's confusing to me

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Speaker 2: how he even makes that link. But look, that's not

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Speaker 2: the only controversy. Mum Donnie is embroiled in at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Despite failing to make everything free during his election campaign,

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Speaker 2: his office is surprise, surprise, already tries to do the

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Speaker 2: precise reverse. The mayor is now considering getting rid of

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Speaker 2: all free parking in New York and making it paid.

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Speaker 2: Is the city grapples with a five point four billion

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Speaker 2: US dollar budget shortfall, Kosher, let me tell you as

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Speaker 2: a Sydney Sider who has to pay an exorbitant amount

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Speaker 2: to park in the city New York, because ain't gonna

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Speaker 2: like this one bit. Do you think he's going to

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Speaker 2: take a hit in his popularity over this.

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Speaker 16: Probably a little bit, because a big part of what

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Speaker 16: he did, you know, he promised rainbows and unicorns and

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Speaker 16: free grocery stores and free everything else, and a lot

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Speaker 16: of the younger gen Z people that voted for him,

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Speaker 16: that was a big part of their calculus. There are

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Speaker 16: many other reasons why people voted for him, but that

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Speaker 16: was a big part of it. So they won't love this,

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Speaker 16: and it is the kind of thing that will, you know,

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Speaker 16: hit many many people. The other one is taxes. He's

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Speaker 16: increasing property taxes, one of the few things where he

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Speaker 16: has the authority to do that. Everything else has to

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Speaker 16: go through the legislature. So wherever he has the authority,

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Speaker 16: which is actually quite limited as mayor, he is going

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Speaker 16: in the other direction of increasing taxes, increasing prices, and

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Speaker 16: it won't work well. However, he benefits from a structural advantage.

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Speaker 16: New York City today is not what it was in

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Speaker 16: the Juliana years or even the Bloomberg years. And now,

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Speaker 16: if you're the person who wins the Democrat nomination, you're

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Speaker 16: pretty much on a glide path to winning the mayoral election.

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Speaker 16: And he probably knows that. So he said what he

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Speaker 16: had to say to sound good on the campaign trail,

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Speaker 16: and he's making a calculation that if he goes back

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Speaker 16: on his word on these things, it won't really make

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Speaker 16: a difference in practical terms when the next election rolls around.

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Speaker 2: Well, if pivolare learning thought socialists, not everything is free

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Speaker 2: and it can't be. Kosha Kata, thank you for your

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Speaker 2: time Still to come. A luxury brand refuses to sell

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Speaker 2: Kim Karashi in a seventy five thousand dollars handbag for

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Speaker 2: her twelve year old. We'll talk to Michael Loftus about

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Speaker 2: and more celebrity news next.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: I'm Caroline Marcus filling and for reader, let's bring in

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Speaker 2: comedian and why to Michael Loft is now, Michael, great

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Speaker 2: to see you. Let's start with pop superstar Rihanna because

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Speaker 2: she's become the victim of a terrifying home shooting overnight,

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Speaker 2: a source telling People magazine she is freaking the f

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Speaker 2: out and doesn't understand why her family was targeted. Thirty

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Speaker 2: five year old Avanna Oritz has been arrested on suspicion

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Speaker 2: of attempted murder after allegedly birring multiple shots from a

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Speaker 2: rifle into the singer's Los Angeles mansion.

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Speaker 3: Michael, this is terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, do we know why AT's allegedly targeted Rihanna yet?

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Speaker 12: I don't think we know yet, But I have ah

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Speaker 12: that she's a crazy woman. That's just me. I'm just

747
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Speaker 12: gonna go on ango and say it. And I'm just

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Speaker 12: glad that Rihanna and her kids hashtag and amper sand

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Speaker 12: and exclamation point are okay. I guess they all hid

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Speaker 12: behind her umbrella Ella Ella.

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Speaker 2: Michael, Seriously, I guess I asked for it when I

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Speaker 2: used to Rihanna as a topic with a comedian fears

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Speaker 2: for Britney Spears's mental health are growing after she was

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Speaker 2: caught driving under the influence of a combination of drugs

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Speaker 2: and alcohol. She's now reportedly keeping a low profile, but

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Speaker 2: it does come after a series of disturbing videos she

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Speaker 2: posted of herself dancing on Instagram, including one where she

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Speaker 2: is dancing with knives. It's now been revealed that Spears

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Speaker 2: has reportedly fired her sobriety coaches just before this arrest,

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Speaker 2: as well as several other people who have been looking

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Speaker 2: after her, including a number of security guards. It's Michael,

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Speaker 2: remember that whole free Brittany movement? What about to get

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Speaker 2: Brittany into rehab movement?

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Speaker 12: Yeah? I think that's that would be a great movement

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Speaker 12: to start. She's like, she's like everybody's little sister. I

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Speaker 12: think everybody wants Brittany to be well and do good

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Speaker 12: and and hats off to Brittany's sobriety coaches. What a

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Speaker 12: gig that must be. Just go to Britney's house, don't

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Speaker 12: drink that, put that down. You should do that now,

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Speaker 12: she was she was tired of being treated like a

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Speaker 12: sex symbol, and so she she quickly found the solution

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Speaker 12: for that, the crazy dance with knives. So so, ladies,

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Speaker 12: if you're ever being tired of being treated like a

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Speaker 12: sex symbol, just get those crazy eyes work and start

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Speaker 12: dancing with knives. We will leave you alone.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think anyone thinks that's particularly sexy on

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Speaker 2: pul Brittany. Let's hope she does get some help. She

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Speaker 2: desperately needs it. I got think Christie's great grandson. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: James pritchadd he said he doesn't have a problem with

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Speaker 2: the BBC's woke casting after an independent review commissioned by

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Speaker 2: the British Public Broadcaster criticized tick box diversity casting. For example,

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Speaker 2: one of Agatha Christie's books was reimagined with a black

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Speaker 2: lead character and an entirely new storyline about racial oppression.

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Speaker 2: Michael Audiences have been criticizing the BBC's woke bias, not

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Speaker 2: only over these Agatha Christie adaptations, but also it's news coverage.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the BBC has real problems. I mean they have

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Speaker 12: gone over the edge. But like Agatha Christie's great grandson,

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Speaker 12: I'm sure he has no problems with whatever they want

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Speaker 12: to do as long as he gets a paycheck, because

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Speaker 12: that's what it's about. The almighty dollar, right, but it's

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Speaker 12: gonna make the shows kind of boring because it's always

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Speaker 12: it's the fun of Agatha Christie is trying to figure

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Speaker 12: out who done it? An all these ones, it's gonna

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Speaker 12: be the white butler, right, You're like, oh, was it

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Speaker 12: the black millionaire brain surgeon? Was it the Middle Eastern player?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 12: No, the white butler did it? Every time?

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Speaker 2: That's true, there's not going to be much of a

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Speaker 2: mystery left because they're certainly not going to point the

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Speaker 2: finger at the diversity characters. Meanwhile, Steve Carrell's new comedy

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Speaker 2: Rooster is out, but it's been criticized for not going

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Speaker 2: far enough in its war on woke and for being

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Speaker 2: a bit too bland. Obviously, with that kind of review,

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Speaker 2: I can safely say you weren't a writer on the show,

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Speaker 2: Michael No, I.

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Speaker 12: Wasn't a part of that. But in full disclosure, I

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Speaker 12: once did have a deal with Steve Correll's production company.

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Speaker 12: He's a wonderful guy. He's really warm, and this is

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Speaker 12: one of those shows where you make the pilot, you

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Speaker 12: have a good time doing it, and then you're you're

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Speaker 12: kind of shocked when HBO is like, yeah, we want

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Speaker 12: to go to series with that, and you're like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 12: I guess we'll keep making more. It's not going to

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Speaker 12: be angry, it's going to be gentle, and who knows,

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Speaker 12: maybe Steve Carell's fans will enjoy it. I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 12: going to watch at least one episode.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Steve Carell.

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Speaker 2: I'll check it out and see if it's bland or

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Speaker 2: if it has a go at woke I'm thick of

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Speaker 2: too overly woke.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's.

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Speaker 12: On those sleepless nights You're like, boy, I just need

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Speaker 12: something like it. Oh, Steve Carell.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the reviewer did say it's a good show.

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Speaker 2: To have on the background when you're doing things like

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Speaker 2: scrolling your phone.

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Speaker 3: So I guess that's the way people these days look.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to reports that luxury brand Immense has refused

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Speaker 2: to sell Kim Kardashian and Kanye West a rare Kelly bag.

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Speaker 2: They're said to be worth about seventy five thousand American dollars.

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Speaker 2: And let's remember this is that four their twelve year

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Speaker 2: old daughter Northwest. The bag was meant to be for her,

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Speaker 2: but the company's no. Michael, Kanye and Kim they were

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Speaker 2: reportedly quite taken aback that someone didn't want to take

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Speaker 2: their money. But what on earth what a girl that

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Speaker 2: young have to do with such an expensive bag?

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Speaker 12: Yeah? What is she going to put in a seventy

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Speaker 12: five thousand dollars What is she gonna owe? I need

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Speaker 12: to get these magic markers to school. No, and I

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Speaker 12: in a seventy five thousand dollars bag. That's crazy. That's

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Speaker 12: like the entire Iranian Navy.

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Speaker 16: You could.

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Speaker 12: And their air Force if you know, you don't sell

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Speaker 12: that bag to a kid so they can go trick

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Speaker 12: or treating and carry around their gummy bears. No, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're right. It's an obscene amount of

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Speaker 2: money for a bag, no matter if it's for a

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Speaker 2: twelve year old or a seventy two year old.

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Speaker 3: But look, it's their money, so they can do with

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Speaker 3: it what they please.

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Speaker 2: Are talking about having too much money to know what

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Speaker 2: to do with it. Millionaire Melbourne's riches man, billionaire Anthony

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Speaker 2: Pratt has done what the AFL seemingly couldn't, and he's

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Speaker 2: secured Kylie Minogue to perform at a private party of

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Speaker 2: his own later this month. Michael, there's been some speculation

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Speaker 2: Minogue could command upwards of three million dollars for this

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Speaker 2: performance in front of about three hundred guests. I mean, wow,

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Speaker 2: that it's a lot of money for a private party.

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Speaker 3: But it would be very hard to say no.

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Speaker 12: To it, really, it really would. And Kylie she's she's fantastic,

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Speaker 12: and hey, the guy made her an offer and she

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Speaker 12: said yes. So I would like to publicly make a

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Speaker 12: counter offer. I have thirty dollars American. So if Kylie,

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Speaker 12: if you could just swing by my backyard, make sure

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Speaker 12: my wife's not home. Oh god, what a different No na, na, no, no, no,

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Speaker 12: no no. I will give you thirty five. I'm a

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Speaker 12: man of wealth and taste.

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Speaker 2: You're throwing in the extra five dollars for the gold hotpants.

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Speaker 2: I know you are, my guess of Nicole Kinman's daughter,

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Speaker 2: Sunday Ros. She's spoken out about her famous mom following

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Speaker 2: her divorce from Keith Urban.

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Speaker 3: She's told Elle.

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Speaker 2: Australian magazine Kidman is the biggest inspiration in her life

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Speaker 2: and a key part of everything she does.

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Speaker 3: Michael, her daughter, is now enjoying a taste.

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Speaker 2: Of celebrity life herself. Like many children of celebrities these days,

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Speaker 2: She's got more magazine covers and walking in shows for

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Speaker 2: some big fashion names.

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Speaker 12: Yeah. I mean, good for her, but it's kind of

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Speaker 12: it's always creepy. You've got a very public divorce. Now

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00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 12: she's siding with her mom, and it's like she's only

882
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 12: picking her mom's side because it was her mom's publicist

883
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Speaker 12: who got her the gig and got her the interview.

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00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 12: So I tell you, if if Dad can get her

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Speaker 12: into the grand old Opry, she'll be like, oh, my Dad,

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Speaker 12: he was really he was my rock. He was the one.

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00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 12: So they'll just go back and forth. It's a push

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00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 12: me pull you. It's it's kind of a blatant fame chase. Though.

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Speaker 12: For for Sunday Rose, hopefully her brother Monday Chrysanthemum, and

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Speaker 12: her other sister Wednesday Daisy, which is not when that's

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Speaker 12: hard to say Wednesday Daisy, hopefully the whole family can

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00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 12: get together and enjoy some nepotism.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just they're so reliable.

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Speaker 2: Michael loftis just like us. Yeah, Michael loftis, thank you

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Speaker 2: for your time.

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Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure to speak to you.

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Speaker 12: Have a good one.

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Speaker 3: That's it for me. I'm next is News Nights