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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business twenty two away from five dammit

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Speaker 1: since our US correspondent Dan Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So do we know what exactly is in this deal yet?

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Speaker 1: With Ukraine?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's things that are starting to leak out.

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Speaker 2: We know that at least according to a number of reports,

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Speaker 2: it's about five hundred million dollars worth of mineral rights

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Speaker 2: and natural resources over there. And the President today didn't

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Speaker 2: confirm that an agreement had been reached, but he said

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Speaker 2: that you know, if this deal does go forward, that

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Speaker 2: Ukraine would get the right to fight on he you know,

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Speaker 2: he said they were brave. He said without the US

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Speaker 2: and the money and military equipment we're providing, the war

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Speaker 2: would have been over in a short period of time. So,

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Speaker 2: as we understand it, President Zelensky will be coming to Washington,

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Speaker 2: he'll be here on Friday and they will sign this

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Speaker 2: this agreement.

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Speaker 1: And is this deal separate to any peace deal that

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Speaker 1: might being a go shaded with Russia, because you know

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Speaker 1: it conceivably could you have this deal, the mineral deal

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Speaker 1: in place, and the war continue with American backing, Well.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think that's what we're waiting

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Speaker 2: to find out. Because the President was asked whether we're

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Speaker 2: going to continue to supply you know, equipment and AMMO

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Speaker 2: to Ukraine, and he said, well, maybe until we have a.

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Speaker 1: Deal with Russia.

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Speaker 2: He says, we need to have a deal otherwise it's

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Speaker 2: going to continue. So if I was Ukraine and I

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Speaker 2: was coming over here and I was President Zelenski signing this,

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Speaker 2: I'd still be a little leary about what I was

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Speaker 2: getting myself into saying, well, wait a minute, we're signing this,

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Speaker 2: but you're also saying at the same time, this is

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Speaker 2: good until we get a better deal.

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Speaker 1: And the DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk

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Speaker 1: is sort of in charge of, they have canceled a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of contracts, government procurement contracts. Nearly forty percent

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Speaker 1: of them are expected to produce no savings.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and the reason is, and there's been a

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Speaker 2: big claim by the President by Elon Musk too, that

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Speaker 2: they're making these costs, these cuts and they're not expected

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Speaker 2: to save the government any money at this point. And

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Speaker 2: this is according to the administration's own data. And that's

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Speaker 2: because these contracts had already been obligated, which means the

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Speaker 2: government has, you know, a legal requirement to send the

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Speaker 2: money or the funds for the goods and services that

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Speaker 2: it purchased, and in many cases it's already done so.

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Speaker 2: So despite the billions that Musk says the government saving

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Speaker 2: over here are cutting. It's sort of a shell game

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Speaker 2: at this point. I think a year from now or

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Speaker 2: maybe the next round of budgeting and budget talks, that's

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Speaker 2: going to give us a little bit better, maybe more

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Speaker 2: of a transparent idea of the real savings.

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Speaker 1: The culprit behind a disturbing government TV heck, this is Trump?

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Speaker 1: Well was he licking the toes, touching, he was kissing.

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Speaker 2: He was kissing the feet of Evon Musk. And it

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Speaker 2: was an AI generated video. I got to tell you, though, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: I mean, AI is so realistic. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many times I've watched this and in a

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Speaker 2: few other videos and you're like, it just looks so

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Speaker 2: real and it's gone viral. It was playing on unauthorized

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Speaker 2: TV monitors at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development,

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Speaker 2: and it was calling Musk the real King, and I

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Speaker 2: think it was a reference to to President Trump calling

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Speaker 2: himself the King after he claimed to kill a congestion

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Speaker 2: pricing program that was in New York City. But I

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Speaker 2: mean tens of millions of people have already watched this.

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Speaker 2: It's unclear how the footage kind of got on all

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Speaker 2: these cafeteria television screens. But a spokesperson for HUDD says,

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Speaker 2: you know what, this is another waste of taxpair dollars

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Speaker 2: and resources and the person responsible is going to be

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Speaker 2: well is out of a job. But yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many taxpair dollars was actually, you know, went

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Speaker 2: into this, or if it was just somebody with a

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Speaker 2: little too much time on their hands.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a job for Doge Dan. Thank you, Dan Mitchson.

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