1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Stay tired. Richard Donald, very good morning to you, good one. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: You might well, let's start with the trade we are 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: we set to go on this What do we know? 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: Well, US negotiated the trade talk sessions with Chinese reps. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: Those talks taking place of the last couple of days in 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 2: Sweatlands are touting what they say are advances towards a 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 2: possible trade agreement. Scott Bissant, the Treasury Secretary, was one 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 2: of those who was involved in those talks and has 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: a report that we made substantial progress between the United 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 2: States and China and the very important trade talk. He 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: says they'll be giving more details tomorrow, so we'll see. 12 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: The trade deal with the UK last week turned out 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: to be a little less than advertised, unless you're in 14 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: the market for rolls Royce where the tariffs were cut right. Meantime, 15 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: should a six hundred and seventy million New Zealand dollar 16 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: gift of a jet described as a palace of the 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: sky be regarded as a bribe if that luxury jet 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: is given by the countery royal family for use of 19 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that is 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: the question here. As the gift of this jet with 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 2: trump favored golden decorations is expected to be formally announced 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: this week. For years, Trump has been frustrated by his 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: standard of air travel. His own jet, which he calls 24 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 2: Trump for Was One, was a jumbo jet he brought 25 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: in twenty eleven that dates from about nineteen ninety and 26 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 2: once was used by Microsoft's co founder Paul Allen. A 27 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: presidential jet known because as air Force One. Actually there's 28 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: two different planes, again dating from the early nineteen nineties 29 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 2: and equipped with anti missile defenses and so on. Boeing 30 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: was given the task of building a new Air Force One, 31 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 2: but delays have meant it will not be ready until 32 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 2: around twenty twenty nine, so after Trump's second term. So 33 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: Countas Royals have agreed to supply a new jet as 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 2: air Force one for the United States, and Trump surveyed 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: the plane recently in Florida. To be used as Air 36 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: Force one, of course, has to be retrofitted with the 37 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: air defenses, but that already has been arranged to seem 38 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: So here's the thing. US Constitution says, in what is 39 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: known as the Emoluments Clause, there's a prohibition not a 40 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 2: president from accepting gifts from any king prince or foreign 41 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: state quote unquote. However, Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi says, 42 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: this gift of the golden jet is just fine because 43 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: it will be given to the US Air Force, not 44 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 2: to Trump personally, even though I was president of courses 45 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: for Trump's use. Then here's another twist. Once Trump leaves office, 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: the jet will be passed over to the Trump Presidential 47 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: Library for use by you know who. So the argument 48 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 2: is that Trump isn't getting personal use from this. It's 49 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 2: going to a library and to the US Air Force, 50 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 2: So they are you. It can't be seen as a 51 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: briber or as an anything unconstitutional. Now, some will know 52 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 2: that when Ronald Reagan left office, the old Air Force 53 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 2: one from his time went to the Reagan Presidential Library here, 54 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: but Reagan didn't find the thing at that point. It 55 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,679 Speaker 2: was simply put on display at the library. Not quite 56 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 2: the same, it seems, as with the Trump's super luxury jet. 57 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 2: Now this is storing a back nash Already, one Democrat 58 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: calling it bribery in broad daylight, while Congressman Jamie Raskin, 59 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: a Democrat, says, quote, a gift you use four years 60 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 2: and then deposit to your library is still a gift 61 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: and a grift end quote. Meantime, Trump heads out tomorrow 62 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: on his first foreign trip the second term, where he'll 63 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: visit the Saudiast, the UAE, and Cutter. The Washington Post 64 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 2: says business deals, not geopolitics, seem to be the focus. 65 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 2: The Trump organization, run by Trump's eldest sons, just did 66 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: a deal in Cutter for a five point five billion 67 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: US dollar golf course and beachfront development. So sorry, Garza, 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: where are we at with the war? Well holding point? 69 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 2: The Russian attacks on Ukraine have been toned down while 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: Chinese present. She is visiting Moscow as the Russian and 71 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: Chinese leaders are watching that World War two victory celebration, 72 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: including large numbers of goose stepping Russian soldiers. Putin didn't 73 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: want anything to disrupt that occasion, so three day ceasefire. 74 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: At his behest this was Trump has questioned where the 75 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: Russian the Russian leader really wants to make a deal 76 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: on ending his war in Ukraine. Trump is urging both 77 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 2: sides to meet in Turkey this week for talks. Lensky 78 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: demanding to ceasefire to start tomorrow before any agreement on 79 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: direct talks. Putin rejecting an initial ceasefire and proposing instead 80 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,119 Speaker 2: direct talks to start on May the sixteenth, th your 81 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: time in Istanborg and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany 82 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: and Poland visited Ukraine this weekend and they set a 83 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: deadline for tomorrow for Russia to accept a thirty day 84 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: ceasefire or face additional sanctions. And they say they spoke 85 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: with Trump about this as well. The Trump team has 86 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: indicated it would impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin 87 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,799 Speaker 2: doesn't agree to a truce. So Trump says, this is 88 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: the time when, or we'll know with greater clarity if 89 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 2: we don't already just word things stand. 90 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: All righte see Wednesday, appreciate it. Richard Donold stateside, by 91 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: the way, the most significant thing I think he did 92 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: over the weekend, and he didn't do it, they sort 93 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: of hinted he might do it, is he's actively looking 94 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: at suspending Haby's corpus, which is of course the right 95 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: to challenge a person's attention by the government so they 96 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: can round you up. The Constitution is clear, and that 97 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: of course is the supreme law of the land. That 98 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be 99 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: suspended in time of invasion. So he's going to arguers, 100 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: we're being invaded, and we can round you up, and 101 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: we can pack you on the plane and send you 102 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: to Libya or somewhere else, and you can't complain about it. 103 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: So we watched that one with a great deal of interest. 104 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 2: For more from the My Asking Breakfast, listen live to 105 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 106 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.