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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchison is our US correspondent with US this afternoon. Dan,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Hey, good afternoon, Ryan. So no cease fire,

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Speaker 1: but I mean there at least there is something a

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Speaker 1: pause on infrastructure, energy, infrastructure strikes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and and like you're saying, at least

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Speaker 2: they talked and a little bit of progress was made.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting. I found that the Putin, who is

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Speaker 2: notorious for keeping world leaders waiting, was speaking at this

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Speaker 2: conference right up until the time that he was supposed

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Speaker 2: to speak with President Trump, and he didn't seem very

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Speaker 2: worried about it. And he had somebody who was moderating

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Speaker 2: the event kept looking at his watch and saying, shouldn't

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't you be back at the Kremlin right now

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Speaker 2: speaking with the President. And he was like, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to worry about that. But again, Trump

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Speaker 2: was on social media he said the talk ended with

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Speaker 2: understanding that they're gonna be working quickly, and you know,

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Speaker 2: he wants an end of this thing, at least, that's

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Speaker 2: what he's saying. Whether or not something will come to

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Speaker 2: fruition between him and mister Putin, that's that's yet to

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Speaker 2: be seen.

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Speaker 1: And obviously Trump is saying, well, I mean he's not

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Speaker 1: exactly coming out and bashing Putent like he did with Zelensky.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how's that going down?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean it's not. I mean I think he is.

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Speaker 2: He's walking a little bit of a tight rope. I

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Speaker 2: think that you've got more people demanding this end to

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Speaker 2: the war in Europe than you do over here. Right now,

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Speaker 2: you've heard him trying to say that that they have

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Speaker 2: they had these these troops encircled, which, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: we have not verified that over here. And you know

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Speaker 2: that the Americans could be involved in World War three,

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Speaker 2: which is just trying to scare people at this point

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Speaker 2: in time. So I think I think Putin is going

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Speaker 2: to try to drag this out as long as possible.

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Speaker 2: And what kind of deal will be made, I think

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Speaker 2: we'll depend more on unfortunately, between the US and Russia

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Speaker 2: that it will be on Ukraine, which is sad.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a sin? I was watching Fox

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Speaker 1: News for my sins for a couple of hours yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I just so happened to be had the time, and

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Speaker 1: there's actually very little coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot bigger domestic issues going on,

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Speaker 1: whereas over here it seems to be all that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. And I mean we're probably the furthest country

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Speaker 1: that you could ever imagine from Ukraine in terms of

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Speaker 1: how we're directly affected by it. Is it fear that

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Speaker 1: actually most Americans sort of don't really think about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's been put on the back burner,

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Speaker 2: especially with the presidential election that we had back in

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Speaker 2: November and with the state of the economy right now

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Speaker 2: with Elon Musk. But one of the things that I've

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Speaker 2: always loved about New Zealand, and I've always said about

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Speaker 2: everybody in that country, is I think you have a

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Speaker 2: broader scope of what is going on in the world.

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Speaker 2: And when I've talked to colleagues down there that they

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Speaker 2: say that is because we are a little bit more isolated.

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Speaker 2: You have fifty giant states that you're trying to track

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Speaker 2: news around right now. So we have our country a

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Speaker 2: four million plus, but we are very interested in the

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Speaker 2: outside world. So I think you get a lot more

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Speaker 2: perhaps international news and a lot more interest in that

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Speaker 2: down in your part of the world than we do

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Speaker 2: up here. A lot of the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna nothing's happening here.

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Speaker 2: That's why not true.

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Speaker 1: That is not taking hey, with anything going on, anything

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Speaker 1: juicy in these JFK documents.

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Speaker 2: I wish, I wish we could say that we have

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Speaker 2: something to report on. And the fact that they dragged

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Speaker 2: this out and didn't release these documents and do this

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Speaker 2: big dump until just a short time ago is saying something.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we were told that we were going to

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Speaker 2: have you know, eighty thousand documents previously unreleased information in them.

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Speaker 2: Right now, most of these that we are looking at

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Speaker 2: and this and historians are going to tell you this

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Speaker 2: is going to take time to go through. Most of

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Speaker 2: the files are just scans of documents. We have some

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Speaker 2: blurred or difficult to read notes. There are photographs, are

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Speaker 2: sound recordings, mostly from the sixties. There are conspiracy theories

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Speaker 2: that are in there right now, several about the Warring

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Speaker 2: Commission that looked into the assassination. But there is not

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Speaker 2: one shining bright light that says this is going to

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Speaker 2: put this to rest and answer all these conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? And it makes you wonder why on

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Speaker 1: earth would they not have released this years ago, decades ago?

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Speaker 2: You know, well, it's true and An interesting thing is

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Speaker 2: we sort of have Oliver Stone to thank for that,

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Speaker 2: because when the movie Born on the fourth of July

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Speaker 2: came out, that's when there was a lot more interest

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Speaker 2: in this and they said, okay, we're going to release

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Speaker 2: everything within the next twenty five years because that movie

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Speaker 2: got a lot of a lot of people talking.

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Speaker 1: Nice one, Dan, thank you for that. Damn mitchin and

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Speaker 1: you is correspondent.

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