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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchinson US correspondence with US Now. Hello Dan, Hi, Heather, Right, So,

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Speaker 1: what's the public opinion of Donald Trump doing?

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Speaker 2: Then? It's falling. Actually, a majority of Americans are disapproving

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Speaker 2: how he's managing this conflict. This is according to a

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Speaker 2: new PBS poll that's just out. You've got Ran Paul

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Speaker 2: who's a Republican out of Kentucky, who says the whole

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Speaker 2: thing could erode support not only for the President but

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Speaker 2: for the GOP, which, of course they're concerned about the

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Speaker 2: midterms coming up later this year. And the survey also

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Speaker 2: found that fifty six percent of Americans opposed military action

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Speaker 2: in Iran and only well forty four percent supported.

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Speaker 1: It's divided along Is it still divided along the old

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Speaker 1: party lines, as in the Democrats hated in the Republicans

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Speaker 1: love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the most part, I think, But I think

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Speaker 2: you're getting a few Republicans now that are siding with Well,

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Speaker 2: they won't say it publicly. They're saying that, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're deciding on this, but are saying that maybe we

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Speaker 2: went into quickly. And I think whether public opinion shifts

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Speaker 2: this could depend largely on how quickly this whole thing ends.

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Speaker 2: President Trump says it's getting set to be wrapped up.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's more turning into a domestic political

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Speaker 2: liability for the GOP than it is for the Democrats,

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Speaker 2: and will certainly give them something to target Republicans going

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Speaker 2: into the midterms.

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Speaker 1: The thing that is probably going to push public opinion

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Speaker 1: in such a way that it would cause him to

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Speaker 1: end it prematurely would be what it's doing to the

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Speaker 1: price of fuel for you people. How's that going?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's not good. Right now. California is paying

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Speaker 2: the most in the country for gallon of gas, which

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Speaker 2: is something around I think maybe five seventy gallon five

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Speaker 2: dollars and seventy cents. You've got airline fuel which is

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Speaker 2: almost tripled in cost right now, which as you know,

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Speaker 2: with Air New Zealand over there and our airlines over

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Speaker 2: here right now, they've already started to raise the fairs,

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Speaker 2: and of course that's happening with trains and shipping and

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Speaker 2: the grocery goods are going up because they're having to

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Speaker 2: pay more to transport those as well. So that's where

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Speaker 2: it's really going to hurt Republicans right now, because honestly,

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Speaker 2: more Americans are afraid of how they're going to be

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Speaker 2: able to afford to pay everything with these prices going

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Speaker 2: up and wages staying the same.

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Speaker 1: You guys going to use robot soldiers.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you mean me personally, no, although I think

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Speaker 2: that's kind of cool. But the militaries are working on

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Speaker 2: these AI soldiers for years and they've got these up

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Speaker 2: and running right now like you would see in a

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Speaker 2: sci fi movie and the pictures that we've seen, and

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Speaker 2: it's like a combination of RoboCop or that evil robot

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Speaker 2: I can't think of the name. It was in Disney's

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Speaker 2: movie The Black Hole. But it's very evil looking, it's

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Speaker 2: very scary. It's jet black steel, it's got a tinted

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Speaker 2: glass advisor. It's called the Phantom MK one. And the

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Speaker 2: goal is to send more of these into battle than

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Speaker 2: humans and have these robots carry any type of weapons

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Speaker 2: that a soldier can. And in the last couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks these robots have been sent at least a couple

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Speaker 2: to Ukraine. Initially this was going to be for sort

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Speaker 2: of recon support, but they're using them to try and

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Speaker 2: deal with explosives too. Real humans won't be put in

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Speaker 2: so much danger, So.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing, by the way, about the oscars

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Speaker 1: and security.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, this is the biggest TV event,

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Speaker 2: along with the Super Bowl that we have over here

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Speaker 2: in the States every year, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: money writing on this, and there's a lot of security

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Speaker 2: on this too. Especially the FBI warned California law enforcement

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Speaker 2: and our Governor Gavenusam about the possibility of of a

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Speaker 2: drone attack by iron targeting the West coast. So they're

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Speaker 2: rolling out more security this year. It's not very visible

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Speaker 2: at this point. The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and

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Speaker 2: Sciences that puts on this event is not is not

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Speaker 2: saying anything publicly about it. But Governor Newsom came out

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Speaker 2: and said he's in touch with the FBI and with

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Speaker 2: security agencies and said he's guaranteed that everything that can

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Speaker 2: be done will be done. But we'll see if this

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Speaker 2: is going to mean fewer of the big name celebrities

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Speaker 2: will show up for the event, or if they just

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Speaker 2: feel confident and say, hey, we're going to go with

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Speaker 2: the flow.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Dan, appreciate it. You enjoy your weekend. That's Dan Mitchinson.

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Speaker 1: You is correspondent. By way, it's being reported that Timothy

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Speaker 1: Shaller may may have lost his opera his oscar because

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Speaker 1: of comments about opera and the ballet, and it just

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be cool to give it to him.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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