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Speaker 1: And Richard Arnold out of the US is with us

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Speaker 1: right now? Richard, Hello, good morning. How Christmas approaching right?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 1: And a shutdown looming?

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Speaker 2: Yet?

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Speaker 1: Will there be a shutdown over the holidays with many

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Speaker 1: government workers getting no money, no pay, maybe a delay

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Speaker 1: in pensions for seniors and vets, and again no cash

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Speaker 1: for Christmas? That is entirely possible because of Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: the world's richest man, has torpedoed a Republican backfunding deal.

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Speaker 1: So now they're scrambling at the minute to fix this

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Speaker 1: thing by deadline time, which is tomorrow night, folks. So

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Speaker 1: far they do not have the by partisan vote numbers

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Speaker 1: to pass another Elon Musk approved spending plan by the

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Speaker 1: time of that deadline. So happy Christmas, app happy end

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Speaker 1: of yew Holidays. Elon Musk, by the way, put four

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety million dollars New Zealand into the Trump

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Speaker 1: election campaign. Since Trump one, Elon has gained a financial

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Speaker 1: windfall whose total wealth, they say are shot up by

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Speaker 1: three hundred and one billion dollars New Zealand to a

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Speaker 1: grand total of eight and sixty billion. Also, Elon now

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Speaker 1: looks to have taken residence at Marra Lago Trumps Florida estate.

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Speaker 1: He's there most of the times that would have hanging around. Now.

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Speaker 1: Elon was not elected to anything. He's just a businessman

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Speaker 1: who gets most of his money from government contracts, especially

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Speaker 1: with SpaceX. But he says the spending bill should not

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Speaker 1: include money for cleaning up after natural disasters hurricanes, fires,

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Speaker 1: flatter tornadoes. Pecked with those folks. And he's posted more

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Speaker 1: than one hundred tweets in the last twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: or exites or whatever, and on his social media site

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Speaker 1: that he owns saying the government spending bill should be quashed.

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Speaker 1: In one he says, quote, shutting down the government is

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Speaker 1: infinitely better than passing a horrible bill. Well thanks, wy,

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Speaker 1: in effect the almost trillionaire. The way this played out

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Speaker 1: has Democrats and some Republicans calling Musks the president or

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Speaker 1: shadow president. It was Musk who first delayed the government's

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Speaker 1: spending beat deal. Only after that did Trump sign on

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Speaker 1: with his comments. So who's calling the shots. He's running

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Speaker 1: the show, asked former Republican Congressman Adam Kinsinger.

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Speaker 2: President Musk this morning made it clear with all his

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Speaker 2: vat vast government experience, which is basically he became rich

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Speaker 2: on the federal government that he doesn't want Republicans to

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Speaker 2: pass this, and seemingly Vice President Trump kind of backed

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Speaker 2: him up then at that point. And what it says

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Speaker 2: about the politics is this is going to be a

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Speaker 2: messy four years. Oh.

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Speaker 1: Democrat Primula Jipoul says, it is clear who's in charge,

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Speaker 1: and she suggests it ain't Trump. It will be their

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Speaker 1: fault that Americans don't get disaster relief, that Americans don't

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Speaker 1: get their Social Security checks, that is on the Republicans.

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Speaker 2: Mike Johnson negotiated a deal with Leader Jeffries and Chuck

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Speaker 2: Schumer and.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and now he's renaking on the deal because

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Speaker 1: the Shadow President Elon Musk said that we shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: doing this deal.

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Speaker 3: So this is on them.

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Speaker 1: Well, right now, it looks like the only way for

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Speaker 1: the government shutdown to be averted is with Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: votes in the House. Will the dem say Republican House

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Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson says, the leader of the House Democrats became Jeffries.

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Speaker 3: House Republicans will now own any harm that is visited

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Speaker 3: upon the American people that results from a government shutdown.

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Speaker 1: All this puts the Speaker about Johnson's third in line

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Speaker 1: to the presidency by the way in danger. Will he

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Speaker 1: survive or will the Republican civil wars take down yet

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Speaker 1: another speaker. That speaker, one of the most senior officials

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Speaker 1: in the government here, was pleading with Musk and his offsider,

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Speaker 1: failed presidential contender Vivak Romaswami until late last night to

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Speaker 1: let the spending deal go through.

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Speaker 3: Elin of Vivek and I are on a text chain

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Speaker 3: together and I was explaining to them the background of this. Remember, guys,

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Speaker 3: we still have just a razor thin margin of Republican.

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Speaker 1: Really, the elected speaker begging rich outsiders to let him

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Speaker 1: keep the government running. Meantime, Trump and now has jumped

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Speaker 1: on board in support of Elin Musk, while also calling

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Speaker 1: for the amount of the debt the US can have

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Speaker 1: the so called debt ceiling to be increased so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be done on his watch. So on

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Speaker 1: one hand they're calling for spending cuts, on the other

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Speaker 1: demanding a spending cap increase. Also they can blame each

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Speaker 1: other for the living financial woes and all the while

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Speaker 1: who suffers well, of course it's yeah, government workers, vets,

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Speaker 1: seniors and the poor. Ah. Yeah, brilliant souff. Hey listen, Richard,

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Speaker 1: go and have yourself lovely Christmas has been lovely, chet too,

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Speaker 1: look after yourself. It's Darnald are us corresponding?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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