1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business twenty one to five. Dan Mitchison 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: is stateside for US. Dan Good afternoon. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: Hey Ryan, good afternoon. 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: What are we thinking about Trump and the Gaza plane? 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Is this real? How far advanced is it? What are 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: your takeaways? 8 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: You know? I think there's some clarification going on with 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: what he said, or at least there's people trying to 10 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: spin what he says, saying that he isn't suggesting that 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: we plant our flag in Gaza, but rather open up 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: the region to American business. But I think he caught 13 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 2: a lot of people off guard by what he was saying, 14 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: and it sounded like he was just kind of rattling 15 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: on there. And really, if you listen what he says, 16 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 2: it almost sounds like he envisions the US taking responsibility 17 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 2: for as you just heard, dismantling the bombs and cleaning 18 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: up the debris. And he says this is going to 19 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: be like the Riviera. 20 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Yes, so he's not talking about any kind of military action. 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: He's just talking about developing Gaza. Who's that He's also 22 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: talking about getting rid of the Palestinians. So we're living 23 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: there or they will go live somewhere else permanently. I mean, 24 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: how's that going to happen? 25 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: I mean, these are all good questions right now. I 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: mean he's saying that that that. You know, he was 27 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: asked after this if Palestinians would have the right to 28 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 2: return to gaz after the reconstruction, and he said, it 29 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 2: would be my hope that we could do something nice there. 30 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: He said where they they wouldn't want to return. Maybe 31 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 2: he says, why would they want to return? Right now? 32 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 2: The place has been hell? And I think he said 33 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: what everyone else has been saying. That. Also, one of 34 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 2: the side comments he made that he has no idea 35 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: or guarantee that that piece is going to hold in 36 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: this region. So right now, it just sounds like he's 37 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 2: throwing a lot of things on the wall and he's 38 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 2: seen what's going to stick. Obviously, there's a number of 39 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: phases to go on with what is going on over there, 40 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 2: and phase one of the deal that they had was 41 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: the release of the Israela hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and 42 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: so they're on to phase two right now. But boy, 43 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: you talk about headlines for tomorrow. What he said today 44 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: in this press conference really really has got people talking. 45 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: Certainly he knows how to do that, and people getting 46 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: quite exercised about Elon Musk in the White House. What's 47 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: the lightst well. 48 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: I mean, if you imagine you have a toddler on 49 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: a sugar high who has a type of attention deficit disorder, 50 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: I mean, that's Elon Musk. I mean, you're not going 51 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: to argue right there, and you give the guy an 52 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: and she takes a mile. There was a report in 53 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 2: the New York Times and there are people within the 54 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 2: Trump cabinet who are saying, we're kind of concerned because 55 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 2: he's got this sort of unchecked power, this bromance going 56 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: on with President Trump, and he's taken a very aggressive, 57 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: I guess, and you might say unconstitutional approach right now. 58 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 2: He's been dismantling these government agencies, or at least trying to. 59 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: He's trying to shrink our government. A lot of people 60 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 2: think that's a good idea. How he's going about that, that's, 61 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: you know, in question right now because none of this 62 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 2: is happening with congressional approval, and that's sort of inviting 63 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: us what we're calling a constitutional clash over the limits 64 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 2: of what kind of presidential authority that not only the 65 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: president has, but but he can give to Elon Musk 66 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: to do what he's doing. 67 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: It's a brimocracy, that's what it is. Dan, Yes, what's 68 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: Biden been up to lately? 69 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: Well, he's got himself an agent. Actually, he had this 70 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 2: agent before a few years ago for a Creative Artists agency, 71 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 2: which is what a lot of the big name Hollywood 72 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: people have. Former President Obama is wrapped by this agency, 73 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 2: so is his wife. And when he had him the 74 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 2: first time around back and I think it was between 75 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: two twenty seventeen and twenty twenty, they published a book 76 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: and that was kind of about it. And you look 77 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 2: at what Biden is going to do, and you're kind 78 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 2: of wondering, well, what can he offer? I mean when 79 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: President Obama left office, I mean he was working with 80 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: Netflix and he had television specials and he went podcasts 81 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: and developing. I mean, it might be fun to imagine 82 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: Biden as his Hollywood star, but I think really this 83 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: agency's going to focus more on publishing books and maybe 84 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: some speaking engagements. 85 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: I was going to say the writing would be about 86 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: the only thing that he's got, the only avenue he's 87 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: got left to tell his stories. Do you know what 88 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: I mean? I mean, the idea of a four hour 89 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: Ted talk or something just probably isn't practical at this point. 90 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: Is that? Yeah, not with us, not with his former president. 91 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: Now, Dan, thank you very much for that. Great to 92 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: have you on the show. Dan Mitchson, ow US correspondent. 93 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 94 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 95 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.