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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business. Dan Mitchison, US correspondence with US Now,

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Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Hi, Heather. I know, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's true or not, but it is. It's a perfectly

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Speaker 1: UK thing to do. Hey, Hunter. Biden's trial is pretty salacious,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the prosecution, I guess this was the most

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Speaker 2: important witness against him. He was his sister in law,

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Speaker 2: he and girlfriend, which was Halle Biden, who testified today,

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Speaker 2: and she said that she believed that he was using

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Speaker 2: all kinds of drugs when she saw him back in

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Speaker 2: October of I think it was twenty eighteen, and how

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Speaker 2: she went out to his truck while he was asleep

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Speaker 2: and found the gun and drug paraphernalia and then you know,

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Speaker 2: the video has been showing all over the news today,

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Speaker 2: how she took it to a grocery store at a

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Speaker 2: little trash can there and threw it away in the

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Speaker 2: trash can and said, I just I was panicking. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know what to do about this. And also the

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Speaker 2: other thing that was very interesting, Joe Biden releasing a statement.

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Speaker 2: Now he's over in France for the D Day ceremony,

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Speaker 2: but he did say in a statement that if his

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Speaker 2: son is found guilty, he's not going to pardon him.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, would he be expected to? I mean, that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be politically cool, would it.

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Speaker 2: No, it wouldn't. But I think it's something that you know,

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Speaker 2: if you were a Donald Trump in office and it

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Speaker 2: was one of your children, I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people over here would expect him to go ahead and

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Speaker 2: just do that and probably wouldn't think twice about it.

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Speaker 1: She also spoke about starting to smoke the crack cocaine herself,

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Speaker 1: didn't she.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah she did. He was very wild and very

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Speaker 2: very paranoid, and you know, he was the one that

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Speaker 2: kind of walked her down that path and got her

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Speaker 2: into into using drugs as well. And she said, you know,

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Speaker 2: it was the most embarrassing and hardest time of her

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Speaker 2: life too.

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Speaker 1: Is she off it now?

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Speaker 2: She is? I believe yes.

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Speaker 1: Is he off it now?

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Speaker 2: That's questionable depending on who you ask. I think he

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Speaker 2: would say yes. I think his dad would say yes.

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Speaker 2: I think there are others that you know, you look

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Speaker 2: at some videos and it's questionable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you reckon, Does he look like he's on it?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes like yeah, yeah, sometimes.

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Speaker 1: What are the telltale signs?

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Speaker 2: Dan, I think it's just how you see somebody acting,

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Speaker 2: like when you see the title yet very agitated, very wild,

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Speaker 2: eyes are very glassy. Yeah, there's just signs of it.

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Speaker 2: You kind of assume that somebody's on something that they

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Speaker 2: normally wouldn't be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how embarrassing for Joe Biden. Now Steve Bannon off

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Speaker 1: to jail on July the first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which I mean it's a four month prison sentence,

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Speaker 2: and this is for defying subpoenas from the January sixth Committee,

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Speaker 2: and his lawyers were arguing the sentence should be stayed

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Speaker 2: until they could appeal this to the Supreme Court. And

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Speaker 2: as you might imagine, any kind of delay would probably benefit,

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Speaker 2: you know, Steve Bannon. If Trump was elected president and decides,

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Speaker 2: just like he did on last day of his presidency

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, to pardon Bannon on federal criminal charges,

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Speaker 2: but he's going to be serving time before any of

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Speaker 2: that can happen.

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Speaker 1: Dan, explain to me how the stuff works with the

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Speaker 1: ads on the hashtags on Twitter. So is it that

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Speaker 1: there are designated hashtags that Twitter will sell an ad

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Speaker 1: around every time that hashtags used that ad will be

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Speaker 1: able to be around it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And what they're finding is that X, Twitter,

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Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, has been placing these

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Speaker 2: ads in their search results with hashtags to promote racist

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Speaker 2: and anti Semitic extremism. So you're finding things like hashtag

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Speaker 2: white power. And NBC did this investigation and they found

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Speaker 2: the advertisement by searching different hashtags, and there were religious

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Speaker 2: hatred and there was anti semitism, and they don't know

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Speaker 2: what extent. People at X were aware that the company

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Speaker 2: was monetizing this. But X is saying, now, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: we're not disputing the findings. We've taken action on this

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Speaker 2: on a number of items. We're going to continue to

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Speaker 2: expand our approach as we need to. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is one of the things that Elon Musk has

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Speaker 2: come under fire forces he's taken over that there's just

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Speaker 2: not enough people keeping an eye on this and who's

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Speaker 2: giving them go ahead to monetize.

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Speaker 1: These A very good point, actually, Dan, listen, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, really appreciated, Go and enjoy your weekend. That's

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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchison, our US correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy

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