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Speaker 1: So this developing news out of the US this morning

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Speaker 1: to do with the Middle East. Officials there believe Iran

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Speaker 1: could be preparing to imminently strike Israel with a ballistic missile. Now,

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Speaker 1: there have been reports in the last few minutes of

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Speaker 1: air sirens sounding in central Israel. Will keep you up

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Speaker 1: to speed with what's happening there. First, though, we're going

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Speaker 1: to Daniel McGlocklin, our US correspondent political commentator, because there

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Speaker 1: is a vice presidential debate happening in the US today.

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Speaker 1: But first, Danielle, what is the latest from the White House? Right?

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Speaker 2: Ryan? So, you know, typically for any US administration, they

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Speaker 2: have said that they're tracking events very closely, of course,

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Speaker 2: and they're committed to Israel's defense. What that likely means

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Speaker 2: is the same thing that happened back in April, where

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Speaker 2: there was another attack that came from inside Iran and

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Speaker 2: the US defense forces, both by ship and by air,

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Speaker 2: helped get rid of about three hundred drones in missiles

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Speaker 2: basically shoot those down before they got close to Israel.

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Speaker 2: So if it comes to that, the US will step

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Speaker 2: in a defensive role. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other big thing happening in the US, of course,

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Speaker 1: is this what's the final debate in the election? JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance and Tim Walls because the Trump Harris campaigns aren't

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Speaker 1: doing another one.

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Speaker 2: No, Well, Kamala Harris has said, you know, I'm up

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Speaker 2: for it, and Trump has currently said that he's not.

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Speaker 2: I think that choice may depend ultimately on how Vance

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Speaker 2: does tonight against Waltz. You've got this really sort of interesting,

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Speaker 2: really really different couple of guys, right, You've obviously got

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Speaker 2: Republican versus Democrat. You've got a Yale law school grad

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Speaker 2: and former private equity guy versus a former public school

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Speaker 2: teacher and football coach. You know, very different in their approach.

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Speaker 2: Vance is very much a kind of a firebrand and

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Speaker 2: in a lot of ways is more conservative than Trump,

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Speaker 2: whereas whereas Waltz is a little bit more moderate. You know,

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Speaker 2: he seems kind of like a nice, sort of older

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Speaker 2: white guy. To put it that way, but it's true,

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Speaker 2: and he's going to be aiming for the middle because

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Speaker 2: some people see Kamla Harris is too far right as

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Speaker 2: left to progressive.

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Speaker 1: People hate Van saying.

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Speaker 2: He is the least liked the vice presidential candidate in

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Speaker 2: the last thirty years, even LEAs like even less liked

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Speaker 2: than Sarah Palin, which is saying.

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Speaker 1: Is saying something. Do you think people are going to

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Speaker 1: watch this debate? Because I was having a look at

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Speaker 1: the audience size. There was sixty seven million for the

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Speaker 1: Trump Harris debate, and the VP debates typically don't do

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Speaker 1: that well, although Palen, you mentioned Palin Biden in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, that was the biggest audience for a

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Speaker 1: VP debate ever, because obviously everybody wanted to see what

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Speaker 1: Sarah Palin was going to say. Do you think maybe

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Speaker 1: because Vance is so disliked, that people might tune in

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Speaker 1: just to see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Are you suggesting there's going to be some hate watching?

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Speaker 1: Ryan?

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Speaker 2: Hey, I actually think you make a really good point,

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Speaker 2: and I don't mean to overstate, but I do think

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Speaker 2: these two are going to make a difference to the

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Speaker 2: presidential candidates in ways that we really don't see that often. Right,

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Speaker 2: Normally VP picks are pretty safe, but these guys are,

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Speaker 2: you know, a little especially with Dvance really kind of

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Speaker 2: out of the mainstream, and for someone who used to

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Speaker 2: be a vocal vote Trump critic, he's gone really far,

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Speaker 2: actually further out to the right than Trump has himself.

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Speaker 2: So his attacks cat ladies. You know his attack Taylor Sworth.

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Speaker 2: He's repeated these crazy things about people eating pets in

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Speaker 2: the Midwest. I think there is more bars about this

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Speaker 2: than in normal years, when you know the VP doesn't

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Speaker 2: feel like it matters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you might be right there, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time. Daniel McLoughlin, US

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Speaker 1: correspondent political commentator out in New York City. For more

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