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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent with US Now. Hello Dan, Hello Heather.

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Speaker 1: No one believes that this is a promotion for Mike Waltz,

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Speaker 1: do they.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, when you were just saying kick him

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Speaker 2: up to the post of US Ambassador to the United

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Speaker 2: Nations right now, because the President has said he's worked

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Speaker 2: hard to put our nation's interest first. I just think

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Speaker 2: the President didn't want to fire this guy publicly and

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Speaker 2: have his critics come down on him. And you know,

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Speaker 2: in all honesty, I mean, this is the first major

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Speaker 2: shakeup we've seen from the administration during this round, and

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Speaker 2: it comes after his first one hundred days in office,

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Speaker 2: and shakeups like this they're not unusual in a new administration.

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Speaker 2: But you know, this one has been coming I think

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Speaker 2: for some time, based on what we know, and after

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Speaker 2: he got caught up in that whole signature chat thing

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Speaker 2: back in March. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But what is it that's like what happened in the

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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours or the last week to prompt this.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. That's one thing that we're trying to

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Speaker 2: wait to see, because if you go back and you

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Speaker 2: look at the media cycle, just a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 2: the President was saying he wasn't going anywhere, you know

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Speaker 2: that he had a lot of and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden he gets this quote promotion, and then he

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Speaker 2: brings in Marco Rubio now to fill this job along

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Speaker 2: with the current job that he has right now. And

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Speaker 2: they're calling this. At first it was going to be

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Speaker 2: a temporary Now they're saying it's open ended. So we

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Speaker 2: don't know what has open ended, the Marco Rubio taking

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Speaker 2: over from Waltz's job right now, and he'd be the

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Speaker 2: first I'm sorry, yes, the first person I think since

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Speaker 2: Kissinger to hold both Secretary of State and National Security

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Speaker 2: divisor at the same time. So, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: if if I were Elon Musk, I'd say, hey, this

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Speaker 2: is a great way to consolidate two positions.

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Speaker 1: In a one. How is the Post Office helping Trump

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Speaker 1: with the deportations? What is this data it's collecting.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're collecting personal information, uh from from customers, which

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Speaker 2: is something that is you know, drawing a lot of

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Speaker 2: concern right now trying to track down these undocumented immigrants.

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Speaker 2: The Washington Post came out this What they're saying is

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Speaker 2: they're working with the Homeland Security Department which is using

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Speaker 2: the IP and shipping data and addresses and other data

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Speaker 2: to track down these migrants, and there's been a number

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Speaker 2: of sources who have come forward down They say that

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Speaker 2: they're doing this in part because the Trump administration is

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Speaker 2: considering privatizing the USPS, so they're trying to get on

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Speaker 2: the president's good side. Interesting, well, it is because, I mean,

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Speaker 2: they do have an inspection service that does investigate crimes

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Speaker 2: involving the mail service, like trafficking and mail fraud, but

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Speaker 2: they don't generally do anything like enforcement outside of it.

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Speaker 1: The way that this is being framed, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: the volunteered to do this rather than being asked to

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Speaker 1: do it. Is that what's up?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know how that's saying words matter, they do,

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Speaker 2: and that's what it sounds like right now. I think

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Speaker 2: they're trying to dance around those words very carefully at

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Speaker 2: the moment right now because a lot of this information

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Speaker 2: that they're getting supposedly to they're doing what they call

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Speaker 2: mail covers, which can take pictures of the outside of

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Speaker 2: envelopes and other packages without technically going inside. But you're

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Speaker 2: still invading that person's privacy by selling that information.

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Speaker 1: Now, listen, Apparently staying in is the new social normal.

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Speaker 2: How do we know this, Well, there's a study that

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Speaker 2: came out, and actually this surprises me because all we

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Speaker 2: talked about was getting out during the whole pandemic, didn't

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Speaker 2: we for about four years? And now they're finding the

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Speaker 2: three quarters of Americans would rather stay home with friends

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Speaker 2: than go out, and only maybe twenty twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: say they'll go out for social activities. And we're looking

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Speaker 2: at sort of what's behind this this homebody revolution? And

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Speaker 2: I guess cost is playing a big role. You know,

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Speaker 2: fifty percent of people are saying, you know, it's just

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Speaker 2: too expensive to go out, but everybody else is saying,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I can hear conversations better, I can

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Speaker 2: avoid crowded places. I like to control my environment. I

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Speaker 2: don't like to get dressed up. And the comfort factor

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Speaker 2: ranks the highest. I think sixty five percent of people

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Speaker 2: said they just feel better socializing if they're in their

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Speaker 2: own surroundings at home.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, did they say staying home with friends was

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Speaker 1: staying home.

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Speaker 2: By themselves, Well, it's it's basically staying in their own

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Speaker 2: If they can invite somebody into their own place, they're fine,

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Speaker 2: with that. But the comfort factor right now is the

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Speaker 2: you know, of just being there by themselves saying, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I'll be there with my spouse or whomever

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: I think this is seasonal because you guys are coming

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Speaker 1: out of a cold bit, right You're coming out of

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Speaker 1: your winter. So is it maybe a reflection of that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it is. To tell you the truth,

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Speaker 2: I quite honestly think, you know, circling back to the

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Speaker 2: pandemic thing, I think we just got a lot more

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Speaker 2: comfortable be on our own and I think you know,

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Speaker 2: we you know, streaming services. I mean more people have

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Speaker 2: started doing puzzles and and home crafts and stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: and I think we just sort of looked around at

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Speaker 2: what we were working for so hard and say, well,

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Speaker 2: why don't we just stay here and enjoy it?

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Speaker 1: Dan, Thank you appreciate it. That's Dan Mitchison.

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