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Speaker 1: Jason Walls joins me now from America. Jason, how are you, Jason?

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Speaker 1: Good morning?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well.

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Speaker 1: How are you going? All right? So what have we

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Speaker 1: got at? Good moment? Good morning, We've got Christopher LExEN.

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Speaker 1: He actually met with Joe Biden. Discussion details remain unclear.

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Speaker 1: What did you hear about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he met with Joe Biden a couple of times. Actually,

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Speaker 2: the first time was at a White House dinner last

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Speaker 2: night where just as a side note, he said he

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Speaker 2: had surf and turf. But he met with him and

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Speaker 2: a number of other world leaders at the White House.

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Speaker 2: Was a big group photo taken outside before going inside,

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Speaker 2: but they didn't really we didn't really get many details

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Speaker 2: of what they talked about, other than the fact that

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden likes New Zealand, which I can't really do

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Speaker 2: much with. But you would have seen behind the scenes,

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of talk this weekend about Russia's

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Speaker 2: ist of the Ukraine, so that definitely would have come

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Speaker 2: up in the conversations.

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Speaker 1: Also, Christopher Lexon, I mean, he's had such a big

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Speaker 1: smile on his face. He's had so much fun, but

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Speaker 1: things got serious today because it's now cheering committees.

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Speaker 2: That's right. He's been sharing the IP four Pacific Indoor

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Speaker 2: Pacific Forum, which is essentially New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea.

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Speaker 2: So in that forum he was actually joined by Vladimir Zelenski,

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Speaker 2: who is really paying tribute to the work that the

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Speaker 2: group had been done. Of course, New Zealand had given

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Speaker 2: all sorts of money to Ukraine were up to one

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million dollars now. But the interesting thing

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Speaker 2: about what Chris Luckson said was he was actually calling

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Speaker 2: out China. He said the intent sifying military relationship we

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Speaker 2: see between Russia North Korea, and China's role in supporting

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Speaker 2: the rebuilding of Russia's industrial base demonstrates the indivisibility issues

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Speaker 2: between Europe and our part of the world. And that

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Speaker 2: sort of sentiment about China was echoed a little bit

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Speaker 2: later by Jens Stohlberg, who is the outgoing NATO General Secretary.

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Speaker 2: So you can see Chris Luxon really really cozying up

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Speaker 2: to those NATO partners and allies such as the US

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Speaker 2: rather than China. But he's going to learn soon he

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Speaker 2: has to come back to our very very lonely corner

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Speaker 2: of the world, where China still looms pretty large.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we're getting more and more reports that NATO officials

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Speaker 1: are getting more and more worried about Joe Biden. And

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Speaker 1: he's got the big climactic conference at ten thirty today

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Speaker 1: and he's solow are you hearing in the NATO conference

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Speaker 1: in the summit? Are you hearing more calls for Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden to step down?

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Speaker 2: It'll be the only question today will Joe Biden remain

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Speaker 2: on as the Democratic nominee. I mean, you had George

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Speaker 2: Clooney coming out and basically calling him to step us

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Speaker 2: all not basically calling on him to step aside, which

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Speaker 2: is one of the biggest blows yet for the president's president.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when you've got Batman telling you can no

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Speaker 2: longer do the job, I think it's time that he

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Speaker 2: steps aside. So I think that that is going to

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Speaker 2: come up in the press conference. We're heading to California

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Speaker 2: now to and Luxon said that he's meeting with Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 2: who is a top Democrat, so obviously there'll be some

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Speaker 2: questions about him, but it's not looking good for Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jason, really looking forward to your coverage of the

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Speaker 1: these issues, and all everything that's happening in America over

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