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Speaker 1: Jason Wool's News talks of the political edient with us

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Speaker 1: out of Wellington. Hey, Jason, Oh, good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Ryan.

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Speaker 1: So TA Party Mahty currently fronting a press conference instead

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Speaker 1: of being at that Privileges committee. What are they saying?

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Speaker 2: Indeed, it's all go down here. I've got one of

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Speaker 2: my reporters outside that Select Committee room waiting for Judith

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Speaker 2: Collins to come out. I got another one upstairs on

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Speaker 2: the black and white tiles at that press conference. And

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Speaker 2: here I am, as the grand coordinator of it all,

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Speaker 2: talking to you as well. So what do we know

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Speaker 2: so far? Well, I'll tell you what. I'll fill you

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Speaker 2: in on the latest with Tea Party, Marty's Rawdiwaitit and

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Speaker 2: Debbie Nardi were pakis still speaking to media. But this

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Speaker 2: little quote kind of sums up how TI Party Marty

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Speaker 2: feel about the Privileges Committee process.

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Speaker 1: This is not about a silly little privileges committee and

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Speaker 1: the silly little rules.

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Speaker 2: It's bigger than that, very condescending of the committee in

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Speaker 2: general and the severity of what's happening right now. Judith

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Speaker 2: Collins has recently spoke to media within the last twenty

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Speaker 2: minutes and said she's never seen anything like it in

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Speaker 2: her life. So to catch you up, TI Party Mahty

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be that select committee right now, but

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Speaker 2: they've basically boycotted it. They've vetoed it because they said

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Speaker 2: they've been denied a joint hearing. They weren't allowed an

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Speaker 2: expert in Ti Kangamadi to come and brief MPs. They

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Speaker 2: said there was scheduling conflicts, they wanted their senior Council

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Speaker 2: Chris Finleyson to be in there as well, and then

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Speaker 2: a number of other issues as well. So what are

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Speaker 2: they going to be doing instead, Well, here's what Debbie

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Speaker 2: Nadi Wapaka told media just moments ago.

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Speaker 1: So we will hold an alternative independent hearing here at

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Speaker 1: Parliament on Wednesday, the Serant of May, and this was

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Speaker 1: the original date that we had been requesting, and we

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Speaker 1: will make sure that you're all aware of the details.

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Speaker 2: So the details are coming in. We're waiting to see

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Speaker 2: what's going on. I can see the press conference is

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Speaker 2: just finished. But essentially what they're doing is they're circumventing

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Speaker 2: the Privileg's committee process and doing something by themselves that

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Speaker 2: they say is going to be independent. I know the

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Speaker 2: question that you have, does this have any teeth. The

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Speaker 2: answer is most likely no, you can't do something like this.

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Speaker 2: Privileges Committee is Privileges Committee for a specific reason because

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Speaker 2: it contains the high profile senior MP's tasked with dishing

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Speaker 2: out the discipline or recommending the discipline to the Speaker.

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Speaker 2: What they plan to do will have no bearing, it

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Speaker 2: will have no legitimacy in the eyes of Parliament. So essentially,

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Speaker 2: I mean Arawadi Wayktiti called what was happening in the

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Speaker 2: Privileges Committee a kangaroo court. I think it might be

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Speaker 2: more apt to describe what they've what they've unveiled later today.

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Speaker 2: So in terms of the hakka in the House, here's

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Speaker 2: what Arawati had to say about that.

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Speaker 1: We know one thing, We're not sorry, would.

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Speaker 2: We do it again? And a heartbeat because this is

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Speaker 2: who we are. But this doesn't mean the Privileges Committee

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Speaker 2: still won't make a ruling. So we're waiting for Judith

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Speaker 2: Collins to come out of that Select Committee hearing today

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Speaker 2: to find out what on earth is the next step here?

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Speaker 1: So what time we're expecting her out?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. Everything has been completely thrown out.

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Speaker 2: The committee hearing was supposed to be from four ten

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Speaker 2: to five four. We don't know if that's going to

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Speaker 2: be wrapping up sooner, so we're going to have somebody

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Speaker 2: that will be waiting to see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Now, we'll keep people updated then, Jason, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for that. Jason Wall's News Talks, CBS Political Editor.

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