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Speaker 1: Off to the United States. We go, and it's a

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Speaker 1: good morning to Mitch McCann.

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Speaker 2: Hell I much, Good morning, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? President Zelensky calls out President

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Speaker 1: Trump on truth and disinformation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Zelensky has been walking this awkward tightrope,

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Speaker 2: I think in recent weeks, wanting to defend Ukraine's sovereignty

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Speaker 2: ahead of these negotiations that might happen, but not wanting

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Speaker 2: to criticize Donald Trump openly for some of the comments

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Speaker 2: he's made that seem rather favorable to Russia.

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Speaker 1: But it seems his patience may have run out.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the context. Last night, at a press conference,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump appeared to be almost blaming Ukraine for the war.

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Speaker 2: He told reporters, referring to Ukrainian leaders, you should have

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Speaker 2: never started it. You could have made a deal. At

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Speaker 2: the same time, he was not at all critical of Russia,

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Speaker 2: the country nearly the entire international community agrees did actually

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Speaker 2: start it. Now in the last few hours, Zelensky has

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Speaker 2: shot back reasonably defiant. He said, unfortunately he's living in

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Speaker 2: this disinformation space speaking about Donald Trump, and he added,

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Speaker 2: I want there to be some I want there to

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Speaker 2: be more truths in Trump's team. He also said the

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Speaker 2: White House suggested that he signed this agreement to give

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Speaker 2: America half of its rich mineral resources in exchange for defense,

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Speaker 2: which he refused. So this is coming at a delicate

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Speaker 2: time where the US is looking to negotiate with Russia

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Speaker 2: without Ukraine at the table. And you can see now

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Speaker 2: Ukraine's getting a little bit impatient with what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you're in New York and you're freezing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am, I'm sick of complaining about the weather,

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Speaker 2: but this is really so cold. It's about minus five

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Speaker 2: degrees celsius at lunchtime as I speak to you. But

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Speaker 2: it's far from over, and there's a series of winter

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Speaker 2: storms about to hit the US. Virginia, North Carolina, and

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Speaker 2: Delaware are set to receive between fifteen to thirty centimeters

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Speaker 2: of snow in the coming days. North Carolina and Arkansas

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Speaker 2: have already declared states of emergency. And just finally, Andrew,

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Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this. The National Weather Service has

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Speaker 2: seen temperatures in the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, reached

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Speaker 2: nigga of thirty seven degrees celsius this week, breaking a

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty year record. It's cold.

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Speaker 1: Are you a fahrenheit boy yet or are you still

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Speaker 1: keeping with the Celsius No, I'm on.

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Speaker 2: Google every five minutes trying to work it out.

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Speaker 1: Stay warm, and I thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Andrew all the best.

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Speaker 1: Mitch mcan for the United States of America.

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