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Speaker 1: Good Father due to see LS go to Washington. Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Chris Luxon has just got to meet US President

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. He's wrapped up a dinner at the White House,

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Speaker 1: which is of course attended by all NATO's allies heads

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Speaker 1: Estate and Jason wols is our political editor in Washington.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Jason coome on, Good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: So do we know how this came about?

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Speaker 2: That?

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Speaker 1: How long did they chat for? Where did they chat?

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was the White House banquet dinner thrown by

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden. So it started at roughly eight pm Washington time,

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Speaker 2: which was around midday New Zealand time, and it wrapped

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Speaker 2: up a couple of hours later. And so we probing

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Speaker 2: journalists just wanted to get a little bit of an

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Speaker 2: insight as to what happened. So we got a wee

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Speaker 2: statement from the Prime Minister saying who he met with

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Speaker 2: and briefly what he talked about. Of course, he met

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Speaker 2: with US President Joe Biden and the first Lady, and

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Speaker 2: he said he had a nice chat with the Prime

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Speaker 2: with the President, who expressed his love for New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: He also had a good chat with the newly elected

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Speaker 2: British Prime Minister Sir Kiirstarma, and he congratulated him on

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Speaker 2: the election victory. And then also interesting he interestingly he

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Speaker 2: spoke with President Zelenski as well. It didn't go into

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Speaker 2: detail the statement as to what they talked about, but

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Speaker 2: it did go on to say that he quote talked

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Speaker 2: all things hobbit with the Prime Minister of Italy. So

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Speaker 2: quite a few different conversations going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like he's quite taken with her. I

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Speaker 1: described her as delightful. Yeah, is in Washington? Is Biden

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Speaker 1: all that anyone's talking about?

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Speaker 2: It is the only story that's happening here. And of

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Speaker 2: course the NATO summit was supposed to be all about

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Speaker 2: Russia's invasion of a Ukraine and some more aid going

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Speaker 2: that way. But of course this story about Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: and his if he's fit to run for president again

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Speaker 2: is the only story that people are talking about, more

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Speaker 2: so than if Donald Trump is somebody who should be

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Speaker 2: on the Republican ticket. And this morning it got to

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Speaker 2: this peak level of interest I think for the retail consumer,

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Speaker 2: with George Clooney penning a letter saying essentially, Joe Biden,

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Speaker 2: you should stand aside now, a lot of Americans might

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Speaker 2: have heard some some senators or some congress people that

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Speaker 2: they might never have heard of before say that Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden should step down. They would have seen the debates

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Speaker 2: and seen it for themselves. But given that George Clooney

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Speaker 2: is such a household name, I think this has pushed

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Speaker 2: it to a whole nother level for the president.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would actually agree with you on that, Jason.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Jason Wall's News Talk zibb's political

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