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Speaker 1: Jonathan Kurzley US correspondence with US. Hello, Jonathan, ten out

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Speaker 1: of ten for the joke. Ev. You're being soft on him.

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Speaker 1: You know that now because he's your mate. Now, when

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Speaker 1: is the shutdown finally over? Well, it looks like it

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Speaker 1: could be tomorrow. The US House is going to resume tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, the Speaker has called them all back. They

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Speaker 1: will sit. It needs a simple majority. Republicans have the majority,

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Speaker 1: so it will pass. It then has to go to

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's desk to be signed off, and then it

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Speaker 1: will become essentially legislation and law, and the government can

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Speaker 1: work to reopen and resume Certa'll be forty three on

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Speaker 1: days by the time we reached that point. Even though

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Speaker 1: that this has already passed the Senate, it actually can't

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Speaker 1: reopen until all of the legislative side and Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: signs off on it. So it's going to be one

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Speaker 1: more day. But there's going to be a headaches still

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Speaker 1: to come. I mean, we'll being warned about air trable

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Speaker 1: problems still because it's going to take them time to

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Speaker 1: get the air traffic controlers back at full speed, back

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Speaker 1: at full capacity. Even though the President has warned that

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Speaker 1: they will be docked pay if they aren't turning up

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Speaker 1: affective as off a couple of days ago. So it

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Speaker 1: is going to take a little bit of time for

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Speaker 1: things to get back in full swing, but the government

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Speaker 1: should reopen properly tomorrow. What's going on with Venezuela do

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Speaker 1: you think do you think an attack might be likely?

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Speaker 1: I think this is posturing from the American President. I

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Speaker 1: think what he's doing. You played that grab before talking

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Speaker 1: about trying to essentially ouse Maduro from Venezuela. I think

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Speaker 1: that is what he is trying to happen here. He

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Speaker 1: is trying to make a political move, but using military might.

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Speaker 1: He talks about he talks about peace through strength, and

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Speaker 1: that's what he's doing here. I mean, you've got the

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Speaker 1: USS gerald Ford moving down into this region. They've been

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Speaker 1: carrying out attacks on what they say drug trafficking boats,

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Speaker 1: some nineteen attacks that have killed some seventy six people.

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Speaker 1: They haven't really provided any evidence though the administration hasn't

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Speaker 1: that these are actually drug trafficking boats. But still you're

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Speaker 1: seeing this huge posturing going on around Venezuela and around

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Speaker 1: those waters of Latin America. Really trying to send a

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Speaker 1: message to the Venezuelan authorities and to the Venezuelan people.

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Speaker 1: But inside Venezuela, you've got their own concerns. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Maduro is essentially trying accusing the Trump administration of fabricating

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Speaker 1: a crisis when he thinks there isn't one, and trying

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Speaker 1: to topple his own socialist government. You've got guerrilla forces

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Speaker 1: essentially arming up inside Venezuela because Venezuela's military is not strong,

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Speaker 1: it is underpaid, it has lower grade weapons, out of

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Speaker 1: date weaponry. So you've got gorilla forces now essentially starting

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Speaker 1: to try and arm themselves to the teeth to prepare

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Speaker 1: for the possibility that there might be some sort of attack.

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Speaker 1: I mean President Trump suggested there could be a land action,

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Speaker 1: a land move. Now what that is, well, he would

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Speaker 1: probably need the approval of Congress to go and actually

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Speaker 1: carry that out, and would that then be an active war.

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Speaker 1: So you've got this political posturing, this military posturing. But

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Speaker 1: I think this is largely trying to send a political message.

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Speaker 1: He wants he wants government change in Venezuela, and that's

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Speaker 1: what he's trying to do. Interesting, Hey, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan has always look after Yourself Jonathan Kurzley, US correspondent.

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