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Speaker 1: Jonathan Cursley, US correspondence with US. Hello Jonathan, Hello Heather,

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday to you. Happy Friday to you too. How

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Speaker 1: long are the lines at the airports. Yeah, well they're

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Speaker 1: going to get bad because if effectively in the next

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Speaker 1: few hours, we're going to see this reduction in es

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Speaker 1: but in plains in the sky come into effect because

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Speaker 1: they simply aren't and other air traffic controllers on the

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Speaker 1: job because of the government shutdown. They're not getting paid.

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Speaker 1: They're deemed crucial workers, so they're supposed to be turning up,

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Speaker 1: but they're now running into the problem where workers aren't

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Speaker 1: getting paid, so they're deciding not to turn up to work.

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Speaker 1: So what this is going to mean is there'll be

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Speaker 1: thousands of flights across the United States of America tomorrow

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Speaker 1: that will be canceled, that will be delayed. It is

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Speaker 1: going to have a major impact at forty major airports,

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Speaker 1: including Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, the

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Speaker 1: world's busiest airport is going to be impacted, Dallas Fort

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Speaker 1: Worth in Texas. I mean, the list just goes on

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Speaker 1: and on and on, And what this is now doing

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Speaker 1: is spreading the pain far beyond federal workers of this

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Speaker 1: government shutdown into American travelers trying to get away in

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Speaker 1: a lead up to what is one of the busiest

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Speaker 1: holiday periods of the year here in the United States,

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Speaker 1: and that is Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's awkward, isn't it. On

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Speaker 1: the bright side, is the fat shot getting cheaper? Yes,

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Speaker 1: this so called fat shot is. President Trump once described

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Speaker 1: it as o Zeenviic and a few other weight loss

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Speaker 1: drugs are about to get cheaper because he's decided to

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Speaker 1: strike a deal with a whole bunch of medical companies.

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Speaker 1: Making that announcement inside the Oval Office today a little

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Speaker 1: bit of drama. One of the medical executives collapsed while

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Speaker 1: standing behind President Trump just as they were making that

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Speaker 1: set announcement. But it is going to reduce the cost

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Speaker 1: by hundreds and hundreds of dollars for Americans. Obviously, overhere,

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Speaker 1: medical insurance is the key to getting access to healthcare.

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Speaker 1: But these deals are going to make it a little

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Speaker 1: bit easier for people overweight people to get access to

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Speaker 1: this drug. And we heard doctor Oz TV's owned doctor

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Speaker 1: Roz who's now part of the Trump administration sprooking and

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Speaker 1: selling this very much of the political message in mind

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Speaker 1: ahead of next year's midterms, insisting that Americans could lose

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Speaker 1: some sixty one billion kilograms combined because of this deal.

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Speaker 1: I don't quite know how you work out those numbers,

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Speaker 1: but somebody's drawn them up on the back of a

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Speaker 1: napkin and presented them to him, and he's read them

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Speaker 1: out in front of the world. Brilliant, isn't it. Now?

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Speaker 1: What would you do if you've got a trillion dollars? Ah?

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Speaker 1: What could you do with a trillion dollars? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could probably fly yourself to Mars, you could probably

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Speaker 1: buy yourself a fair few islands. You could have more

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Speaker 1: money than the GDP of some Pacific island nations. It's

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Speaker 1: just extraordinary, this Elon Musk deal, isn't it. It's going

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Speaker 1: to equate over the next ten years, or it could

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Speaker 1: equate to two hundred and seventy five million dollars a day.

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Speaker 1: That's how big this paid deal is for him. It's

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Speaker 1: just I mean, you can live off the interest of

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Speaker 1: a fraction of that. I mean, come on alone, spread

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Speaker 1: them wealth. I reckon, I share it round. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Jonathan, appreciate it. Jonathan Kurzley, US correspondent for

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