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Speaker 1: Joe, how are you great?

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Speaker 2: Mike?

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Speaker 1: How are you very good? Had this ICE thing? I

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Speaker 1: can only imagine how it's gone down in Italy with

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Speaker 1: the Olympics, the Winter Olympics coming up.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, there was plenty of confusion because

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Speaker 2: I started sharing this information with other journalists and they said,

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Speaker 2: that's ridiculous. Those ICE agents can't move outside the US.

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Speaker 2: And suddenly we're hearing that they're going to be part

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Speaker 2: of a security detail at the Olympics. The Interior Ministry

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Speaker 2: and the US Embassy in Rome have confirmed that. Will

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Speaker 2: they be traveling with Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State,

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Speaker 2: and the US Vice President JD Vance. I think so,

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Speaker 2: But they're supposed to be coming to the Olympics to

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Speaker 2: monitor transnational criminal organizations, So I don't know what that's about.

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Speaker 1: Gee, So what are they going to do about There's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it apart from be outraged.

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Speaker 1: Is something going to happen?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't look like it. But I certainly a lot

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Speaker 2: of concern across Italy and it wouldn't surprise me if

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Speaker 2: we see some major protests over this, because people are

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Speaker 2: pretty unhappy about it.

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Speaker 1: What side are they buzzing? About the Olympics. Is this

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Speaker 1: a cash win for the country.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if that might be exaggerated. We hear that

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Speaker 2: every time the Olympics are held, the Italian economy is

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Speaker 2: losing traction. After growing less than one percent in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, it doesn't look that good this year. Predictions

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Speaker 2: that it will be a bit of a windfall, but

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Speaker 2: I'm seeing today that the Confindustria, the largest business organization,

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Speaker 2: is saying the Italian economy is pretty much frozen at

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Speaker 2: the moment. Mike week Dollar, the dramas over Venezuela and

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Speaker 2: Greenland coming from the US President Donald Trump, fueling a

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Speaker 2: lot of uncertainty. People are saving and they don't want

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Speaker 2: to spend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then we come to speaking of Trump, America, etc.

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Speaker 1: This business. He didn't apologize. He sort of spoke nicely

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Speaker 1: of the British the next day. But this Afghanistan thing

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Speaker 1: was a horrific mistake and Maloney, I guess must walk

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Speaker 1: a fine line between being as mate and reminding him

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Speaker 1: you don't say stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly this time. I was surprised and the comments

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Speaker 2: that she made almost got swallowed up because soon after

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Speaker 2: she made these comments, President Trump backed away from what

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Speaker 2: he said, but I was shocked. She was very outspoken,

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Speaker 2: defending Italian troops and saying that they were on the

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Speaker 2: front line. They were there supporting the US troops and

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Speaker 2: the allies in Afghanistan. And she was amazed to learn

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Speaker 2: of President Trump's declaration, so very very strong words, I thought,

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Speaker 2: and I'm wondering if we might see more of that.

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Speaker 2: That is, she willing to stand up for him, up

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Speaker 2: to him over issues that she thinks is important.

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Speaker 1: Exactly now, listener, I am, I suppose everyone is. When

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Speaker 1: you got this town hanging on the egyp of the club,

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Speaker 1: what do you do for goodness? So the vision is incredible,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: So this Sicilian town looks like it's really hanging off

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Speaker 2: a cliff. After the cyclone passed through the last week

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Speaker 2: or so, people have been evacuated, hundreds of people have

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Speaker 2: been evacuated. The Prime Minister Maloney was down there today

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Speaker 2: state of emergency, one hundred million euros set aside for Sicily,

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Speaker 2: Colubria and Sardinia. But the big question is will this

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Speaker 2: town continue to fall off the cliff because we're still

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Speaker 2: seeing subsidence from the area.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you've you've got to coordinate I mean

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Speaker 1: the back end of the town, which is away from

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Speaker 1: the cliff. I mean, you could argue, don't worry, You'll

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Speaker 1: be fine, but you've got to do something with the

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Speaker 1: front end and the problem that you have. See, we

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Speaker 1: haven't the reason I'm so fascinated. We have this great

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Speaker 1: debate in this country of building in places that we

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be building, whereas you guys built thousands of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and you can't really blame the people who did it

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Speaker 1: at the time. So what do you do. Do you

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Speaker 1: compensate people or what?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I mean the chasm continues to widen, so

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Speaker 2: we might see the whole town fall off the cliff.

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Speaker 2: That'll be interesting.

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Speaker 1: I reckon. Hey, you're on holiday, yep.

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Speaker 2: I'm off to Melbourne in the next couple of days,

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Speaker 2: so I will see you the last week of February.

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Speaker 1: You've seen how hot it is in Melbourne this week

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Speaker 1: I have.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous about that.

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Speaker 1: Go well, have a good time. We'll see you soon.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Joe McKenna in Italy. Catherine will be doing

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Speaker 1: the business for the next couple of weeks. For more

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