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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, US correspondent with US Morning. Richard. Hey there, Heather, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what do you make of the Trump the new filing

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Speaker 1: and the Trump jan sixth stuff. Well, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: in it. We're talking one hundred and sixty five pages

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Speaker 1: that have just been put out by the prosecutor Jack Smith.

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Speaker 1: You know, they say the wills have justice did slowly.

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Speaker 1: It is almost three years since the capital riots of

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Speaker 1: January the sixth, So here we are just over what

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Speaker 1: four weeks from the twenty four elections. If Trump wins

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Speaker 1: this thing, he will no doubt end the criminal case

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Speaker 1: against him. If he loses, this will go after court.

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Speaker 1: But none of it happens before the presidential election. So

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Speaker 1: much for the justice system. It is a race what

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Speaker 1: prosecutors should do, especially after the conservative dominated Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: intervened and ruled that a president cannot be criminally charged

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Speaker 1: over official acts. Were Trump's actions on that day of

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Speaker 1: the riot? Official? Well, no argues that the prosecutor much

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Speaker 1: of what Trump did then could never be called official.

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Speaker 1: Smith has just issued this lengthy document making that argument,

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Speaker 1: and he includes some new details about what happened on

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Speaker 1: the day. He says when Trump was told that the

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Speaker 1: capital had been breached and his Vice president, Mike Pence

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Speaker 1: was in danger for his life. He said, quote so what.

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Speaker 1: The attackers who were threatening Pencer's life came to within

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Speaker 1: fifteen meters of the VP. At another point, Trump was

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Speaker 1: heard telling his daughter and son in law, quote, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you won or lost the election, you

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Speaker 1: still have the You have to fight like hell. That's

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Speaker 1: what he also told the crowd.

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Speaker 2: We fight, We fight like hell, and if you don't

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Speaker 2: fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

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Speaker 1: Well, five people died. Many were injured on that day,

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Speaker 1: including one hundred and seventy four police officers. Now, Trump

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Speaker 1: says he's going to pardon those who were found guilty

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Speaker 1: of crimes. How would they decide who gets out of jail?

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Speaker 1: Trump says he Donald would be the one who decides it,

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Speaker 1: makes the call. Four officers who responded to the attack

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Speaker 1: took their own lives. Within seven months of the events,

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Speaker 1: property damage caused by the attackers succeeded four point three

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Speaker 1: million New Zealand. This comes as the Kamala Harris campaign

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Speaker 1: has just released a campaign ad using a clip from

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Speaker 1: the Vance Walls to bate this week, this ad.

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Speaker 2: It's really rich for democratic leaders to say that Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully

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Speaker 2: to give over power. He is still saying he didn't

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Speaker 2: lose the election. How would just say to that, did

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Speaker 2: he lose the twenty twenty election, seam, I'm focused on

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Speaker 2: the future. That is a damning non answer.

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Speaker 1: Well, former Republican Leadership member Liz Cheney is off campaigning

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Speaker 1: with Kamala Harrison Wisconsin today, So that's how the will turns.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Milania Trump has a memoir coming out later this week

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Speaker 1: where she defends abortion rights, so in sharp contrast to

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Speaker 1: her husband.

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Speaker 2: Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when

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Speaker 2: it comes to this essential right.

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Speaker 1: So Trump and the former First Lady split over one

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Speaker 1: of the most significant campaign issues.

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Speaker 2: Richard. We now officially can say that Hurricane Helena is

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Speaker 2: worse than Katrina.

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Speaker 1: Can't be based on the death toll. Well, it's getting

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Speaker 1: up there. They're comparing it to Katrina, probably a second

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Speaker 1: on the list because Katrino was just so, so, so devastating.

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Speaker 1: But the death toll from Hurricane Helene keeps going up.

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Speaker 1: It's now more than two hundred people dead from the

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Speaker 1: floods caused by the storm this week. Scores of people

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Speaker 1: still are missing. A local mayor says they expect the

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Speaker 1: numbers to keep rising. Roads and communications out. President Biden

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Speaker 1: took a survey by air of the damage in North

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Speaker 1: Carolina and says the recovery cost will be into the billions.

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Speaker 1: No one as yet has realistic numbers on any of this.

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Speaker 1: Biden and Harris are visiting storm effected spots in Georgi Orham,

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Speaker 1: and Biden also is heading to Florida today. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Dixon family say they were among many who were

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Speaker 1: caught by surprise when the creek behind their North Carolina

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Speaker 1: home became a raging torrent before they knew it, and

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Speaker 1: the homeowner's father was swept away to his death. Another

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Speaker 1: man says his wife still is among the missing.

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Speaker 2: He looked outside and there was a thirty foot tall

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Speaker 2: wall of water and rocks and tree debris just coming

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Speaker 2: at us, and it just knocked out straight down with

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Speaker 2: all of us in it, and we all got washed

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Speaker 2: stone river. I crawled around, screaming looking for it, and

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Speaker 2: I just couldn't find it.

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Speaker 1: You know. Biden has sent in a thousand active duty

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Speaker 1: troops to help well. Jose Andres also is on scene.

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Speaker 1: He is remarkable. He is the chef who in recent

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Speaker 1: times turned into a one man led relief agency. He

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Speaker 1: had food set up in Poland Euricor for fleeing Ukrainians.

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Speaker 1: He had food trucks that went into Gaza and Haiti

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Speaker 1: earlier on and now he says of the situation in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Is hundreds, if not thousands, of roads, It's hundreds of

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Speaker 2: riches broken. It's the devastation is so huge.

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Speaker 1: But you are creative, you don gifa. Yeah, this man

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Speaker 1: is amazing. Richard's good to talk to you. Enjoy your weekend.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, as Richard Arnold US correspondents. For more

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