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Speaker 1: Barry Soper, Senior political Correspondence with US Barry.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: So Biden apparently, by all account ac quitted himself quite

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Speaker 1: well on that speech.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was as though he's almost had a makeover.

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Speaker 2: He looked great.

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Speaker 1: He performed well even after his bedtime, well after his bedtime.

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Speaker 2: He finished not too long ago. And it's after it's

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Speaker 2: called it to midnight there now, So.

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Speaker 3: He is well.

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Speaker 1: And truly he's a bed at eight, isn't he well?

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Speaker 2: That put to bed all his critics, of course, that

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Speaker 2: said that he can't perform after nine o'clock at night.

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Speaker 1: Subject himself up, though he must have been sleeping.

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Speaker 2: All day, because look, he looked really good. That was

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Speaker 2: the thing that I thought, for a man of his age,

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Speaker 2: he was looking fantastic. But look, he wasted few words

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Speaker 2: on Donald Trump, castigating him for the campaign he's running

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Speaker 2: and the damages it's doing to America.

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Speaker 3: Have a listen, Donald Trump calls America fairly nation. I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: but think about this, think about this, he probably, he

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Speaker 3: says to the whole world, I'm gonna say something outrageous.

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Speaker 3: I know more foreign leaders by their first names, and

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Speaker 3: know them well than anybody live, just because I'm so

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Speaker 3: damn old, and I'm not joking. Think of the message

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Speaker 3: he sends around the world when he talks about America

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Speaker 3: being a fairly nation. He says we're losing. He's the loser,

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Speaker 3: he's dead wrong, and crime will keep coming down when

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Speaker 3: we put a prosecutor in the Oval office instead of

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Speaker 3: a convicted felon. I ever thought I'd stand before a

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Speaker 3: crowd of Democrats and refer to a president as a

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Speaker 3: liar so many times now. I'm not trying to be funny.

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Speaker 3: It's sad. Who in the hell does.

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Speaker 2: He think he is?

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Speaker 3: Who does he think he is?

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Speaker 2: He was fought up. I mean, the audience will just

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Speaker 2: love and they you know, they're all carrying plaque has

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Speaker 2: that we love Joe. But yes, I know you're going

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Speaker 2: to be asking this. Here was there was stumble Well,

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Speaker 2: there was one which was of course become characteristic for

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Speaker 2: this man who is in.

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Speaker 3: His decision over turning Roby Wade. Did you heard earlier

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Speaker 3: tonight the United States Supreme Court majority wrote the following quote,

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Speaker 3: women are not without electrical without not allowed, not without electoral,

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Speaker 3: electoral or political power.

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Speaker 2: And he was literally all although he was all night,

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Speaker 2: but he was quoting somebody, so he had to try

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Speaker 2: so hard to get the quote right and.

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Speaker 1: I'm thank you for that.

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Speaker 4: Shared me up and measure Back to New Zealand politics,

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Speaker 4: So Hipkins was trying to get one over the Prime

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Speaker 4: ministers in a backfired.

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Speaker 2: It sounds so low key after all that we've heard

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Speaker 2: from the United States. But yeah, he put it himself

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Speaker 2: against Chris Luckson, as he always does at question time,

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Speaker 2: and this is after a recess of course. On this

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Speaker 2: he attacked the government on frastructure, saying that since it

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Speaker 2: came to power, the construction industry says everything has been stopped.

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Speaker 2: Luxon wasn't having a bar of it.

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Speaker 3: Though.

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Speaker 5: Having projects with names doesn't mean they're actually projects. So

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Speaker 5: spending six years on Auckland light rail, spending two hundred

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Speaker 5: and fifty to three hundred million dollars doesn't make it happen.

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Speaker 5: It's just a post it notes slogan, bumper sticker, that's

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Speaker 5: what that is. The same thing happened on Lake Onslough,

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Speaker 5: just another bumper sticker. So there's a difference between real

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Speaker 5: projects that improve productivity and phantom projects that just actually

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Speaker 5: are post it notes and oursid Prime Minister has got

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Speaker 5: any plans to sign fifty four million for take away

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Speaker 5: over the orkl and Harvard Bridge, and when it's all over,

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Speaker 5: nothing has done with it. There was a lot of

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Speaker 5: phantom projects from the previous government. We can go through

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Speaker 5: them if you'd like.

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Speaker 4: Sol Winston was having a bit helping out there and

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Speaker 4: the same thing happened to the Greens.

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Speaker 2: Yes it did. It was being questioned about the traffic

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Speaker 2: light system for beneficiaries and the Greens Riccardo Mendez March

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Speaker 2: was citing research saying the news system would do little

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Speaker 2: to change behavior and would compound social and disconnectedness basically

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Speaker 2: among beneficiaries. The Social Development Minister Louise Upston she relished

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Speaker 2: the question.

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Speaker 6: I did agree with the comments made on news talks

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Speaker 6: 'd Be and Wellington on the August August the fifteenth

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Speaker 6: that were quote, when it comes to sanctions, I'll tell

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Speaker 6: you what, especially for the younger ones, particularly under twenties,

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Speaker 6: and for the teenagers hitting the workforce, I think those

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Speaker 6: sanctions straight out of school are a good idea. I

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Speaker 6: would like to thank Labour MP Greg O'Connor for his endorsement.

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Speaker 1: How good, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It was, it was a little backfron party is he today?

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Speaker 4: Looks like it?

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Speaker 1: Hey, Barry, thank you very much, appreciate it. Barry Soper,

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Speaker 1: Senior political correspondent.

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