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Speaker 1: So Donald's done the interview with Elon. Unfortunately x or

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Speaker 1: you know, Twitter crashed and thousands of users had to

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Speaker 1: listen to this for more than forty minutes. I going

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Speaker 1: to give you six seconds. Imagine forty minutes. Now, US

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Speaker 1: correspondent a feature story News Nick Harper listened to the

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Speaker 1: whole thing.

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Speaker 2: He Nick hi Hana Nick.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk says it was a cyber attack that caused

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Speaker 1: the technical glitch.

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Speaker 2: Do we know if that's true, Well, we don't to

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Speaker 2: this stage. I mean, that's what he's saying, that that's

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Speaker 2: what's being put out online. Undoubtedly people are going to

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Speaker 2: look into this to see if it was the case.

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Speaker 2: But he also said they'd done plenty of testing in

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Speaker 2: recent days to ensure that something like this didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: They even suggested during the course of the conversation at

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Speaker 2: one point that potentially the Democrats were behind it to

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Speaker 2: stop Republican Donald Trump from making it onto the airways.

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Speaker 1: And did we actually get anything out of this interview

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Speaker 1: or was it just an opportunity for Donald Trump to

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Speaker 1: ramble through the usual stuff.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's more of the latter. That's so

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Speaker 2: many of his usual talking points were essentially ticked off.

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Speaker 2: It was like a stump speech. He was given free reign.

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Speaker 2: It was not a probing interview. It was very much

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Speaker 2: an opportunity for him to speak about what he wanted

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Speaker 2: to speak about, and therefore he went along very similar

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Speaker 2: lines to the type of things that we normally hear.

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Speaker 1: So would you describe the relationship between Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: Elon Muskers of Bromance?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, undoubtedly, which is kind of strange because there has

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Speaker 2: been this evolution in the last year or so. He

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Speaker 2: switched allegiance. He was a Democrat, he got disenchanted with Biden.

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Speaker 2: He was supporting Donald Trump's rival Ron Decantis to Florida

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Speaker 2: governor until he dropped out. But now he's fully backing

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Speaker 2: Trump and very interesting to see that evolutionary shift between

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Speaker 2: that movement that he's made.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has said that the invasion of Ukraine by

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Speaker 1: Putin wouldn't have happened if he was in charge, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to Joe Biden. I mean that seems like actually

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Speaker 1: he may have a fair argument there.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Oh, it's interesting because they were

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Speaker 2: very much talking about this idea of having a strong

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Speaker 2: man as a president. Elon Musk was pushing Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: on this, saying that it was important to have an

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Speaker 2: intimidating president. He picked up up and he said that

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Speaker 2: he had pushed back against world leaders, even suggesting as

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Speaker 2: well that the current Israel Hamas conflict would not have

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Speaker 2: taken place if he had been president so very much,

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Speaker 2: saying that Biden was too weak, hadn't stood up to

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Speaker 2: world leaders and as a result, conflicts had been created.

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Speaker 1: Nick, what do you think it's going to take for

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Speaker 1: Trump to be able to get a bit of a

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Speaker 1: buzz around his campaign because Kamla's obviously steeling all the

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Speaker 1: limelight at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Well, the big hope was that this would create buzz

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Speaker 2: that we would out the back of this have huge

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Speaker 2: headlines for Donald Trump that elon Musk for how well

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Speaker 2: it had gone for the news that he had made.

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Speaker 2: But really the headlines are dominated by the technical problems,

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Speaker 2: those glitches that everyone experienced at the start. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's created that social media buzz that he was

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Speaker 2: hoping for, because bear in mind, the social media space

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Speaker 2: is an area where Kamala Harris is excelling. Her team

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Speaker 2: has done very well to captivate and build momentum with

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Speaker 2: social media users. She's got a big Gen X following

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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump. I guess was hoping to capitalize on this.

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