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Speaker 1: So I don't think. I don't think there's a scriptwriter

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood who could out dramatize real life. Right now,

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Speaker 1: what do you reckon? It seems the show is back

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Speaker 1: just in time for a year of Lord knows what

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Speaker 1: Venezuela was. It illegal? Probably, But key question is who's

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Speaker 1: going to do anything about it? And if you protest,

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Speaker 1: you look like you're backing a dictator and a thug,

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Speaker 1: don't you. Greenland. I think a deal will evolve eventually

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Speaker 1: where NATO boost's resources should have been done years ago,

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Speaker 1: remembering the thinking behind it. If America doesn't plant a flag,

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Speaker 1: China might Cuba Columbia also linked to the China obsession

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Speaker 1: Trump has, but their small fry, they'll ultimately get settled

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Speaker 1: and sorted Minnesota, proving this actst locally as well as internationally.

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Speaker 1: Trump is rewriting the world. Note Rubio's using the term

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Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. A lot that's deliberate, goes back to President

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Speaker 1: Monroe of the eighteen hundreds. All of this is fascinating,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily good or bad, but gripping. Nevertheless, if you're

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Speaker 1: watching the New Night Manager season, the Overthrower government is

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Speaker 1: the plot? Is it fiction or a docco these days.

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Speaker 1: See you don't know, do you? Locally? Apart from being

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Speaker 1: bored witless as local media, you're obsessed about endless weather

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Speaker 1: warnings and crime. We've got a lot to look forward to.

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Speaker 1: In case you forgot, this country is actually on a

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Speaker 1: bit of a roll. The pre Christmas GDP number Q

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Speaker 1: three remember that July, August and September gangbusters. While so

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Speaker 1: many moaned about our lot, we were in fact going

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Speaker 1: and growing very nicely. Thank you. No reason to believe

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Speaker 1: Q four when we get it won't be about as good.

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Speaker 1: So that sets the year up election year with the

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Speaker 1: government who's delivered. We haven't even got to Iran or

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Speaker 1: the astonishing cock up Elban easy managed to make of

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Speaker 1: the Bondi tragedy the Supreme Court in tariffs, speaking of

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Speaker 1: which are India FTA came too late for the good

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Speaker 1: news coverage it deserved. Oh and the Fed Reserve DOJ

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Speaker 1: scandal that dragged our Reserve Bank governor into the political

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Speaker 1: world of Winston Peters. You can't make a lot of

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Speaker 1: this stuff up, and yet it's all happening, it's all changing,

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Speaker 1: it's all on What a year. It's going to be awesome.

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