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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. Mitch McCann us correspondent, hoy much,

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Speaker 1: Hey Heather, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you. So the fourteen year old

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Speaker 2: suspect has been put in custody and his father.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a dramatic development tonight. That fourteen year

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Speaker 1: old Colin Gray was arrested yesterday for the shooting at

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Speaker 1: of Georgia High School where two teachers and two students

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Speaker 1: were killed. But today they have arrested his fifty four

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Speaker 1: year old father, Colin Gray, who plisse was directly connected

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Speaker 1: with the actions of his son and allowed him to

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Speaker 1: possess a weapon. He has been charged with four counts

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Speaker 1: of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children.

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Speaker 1: So his fourteen year old son, who is accused of

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Speaker 1: doing this is in custody. He's likely to be tried

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Speaker 1: as an adult. Now his father has also been charged.

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Speaker 2: So okay, So a year ago, the coppers already knew

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Speaker 2: that this kid was potentially making threats, right, and they'd

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Speaker 2: gone to investigate it in what they hadn't found any evidence?

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's right. It turns out that last year

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Speaker 1: there were allegations from people online on the social media

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Speaker 1: platform Discord that a teenager in Georgia was making claims

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Speaker 1: about shooting up a high school or something of that nature.

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Speaker 1: When they investigated, they interviewed this young man and his parents.

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Speaker 1: He denied making any allegations of that sort, and they say,

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Speaker 1: now there wasn't enough evidence to continue with this case.

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Speaker 1: Now you can imagine this is going to be looked

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Speaker 1: at extremely closely given what's happened. But they did look

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Speaker 1: into this young man last year and found there was

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Speaker 1: no reason to proceed.

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Speaker 2: But the allegation then, Mitch, was that there were hunting

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Speaker 2: rifles in the father's position that the kid had access to.

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Speaker 2: But what he's used, if he is the one who's

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Speaker 2: carried out the shooting at school, is not a hunting rifle,

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Speaker 2: is it.

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Speaker 1: That's right, But it remains to be seeing that there

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Speaker 1: were more weapons in the house as well. The police

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Speaker 1: have actually been in the house in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days and they say that he was obsessed with

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Speaker 1: mass shooting and things of that nature. They did a

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Speaker 1: search of his room and they say he appeared to

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Speaker 1: be particularly obsessed with the twenty eighteen massacre at Marjorie

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Speaker 1: Stone and Douglas High School that Wilbert in Florida, where

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Speaker 1: seventeen people died. So it turns out that they've investigated

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Speaker 1: this person last year, and now they found out that

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Speaker 1: he was actually obsessed with mass shootings before he carried

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Speaker 1: out one yesterday in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: So, Mitch, is it? I mean, I imagine at some

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Speaker 2: stage the heat's going to go on the cops for

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Speaker 2: having potentially had the opportunity to stop this and failing

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Speaker 2: to do so.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that's exactly going to be the case.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a real, a deep look at some

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Speaker 1: of these mass shootings at the United States at the moment.

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Speaker 1: You remember the Evoldi, Texas shooting where one of the

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Speaker 1: police officers in charge there has been charged for not

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Speaker 1: doing enough on the day. Now there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a serious investigation I would imagine in the coming months

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Speaker 1: around what was missed here as they look to apply

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Speaker 1: it to other cases around the country. It is, you know,

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Speaker 1: biggest belief really that they got close to this kid

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Speaker 1: last year and managed to sort of let him go

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Speaker 1: and let him back to school. Now we know what's happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah too, Right. Hey, this Efficiency Commission that Donald Trump's

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Speaker 2: going to seat up, what is this supposed to do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a Department of Government and Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has announced that he wants to start this.

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Speaker 1: He was in New York today speaking to some business leaders. Now, essentially,

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Speaker 1: this is a government department that would cut waste. It's

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Speaker 1: sort of a ministry of regulation. He vowed to eliminate

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Speaker 1: ten existing government regulations for every new regulation added under

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Speaker 1: his potential new administration. And the way that Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: falls into this is that just last month, Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: posted an AI generated image on his social media account

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Speaker 1: where he was standing behind a lecturn heather that had

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Speaker 1: the words Department of Government Efficiency behind it. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: even says that he could lead the commission, which is

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Speaker 1: also aiming to audit the US government. So it's, you know,

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Speaker 1: another example of Donald Trump getting closer to Elon Musk.

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Speaker 2: Why would Elon Musk want to spend time leading something

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Speaker 2: like this. I mean, the guy is busy enough, isn't he.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a fair question. He owns a

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Speaker 1: number of companies. But Donald Trump has also admitted in

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Speaker 1: podcasts in recent times. It would be hard for Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk to work in a department like this given the

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Speaker 1: potential conflict of interest that would arise from the multiple

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Speaker 1: business he owns. So it remains to be seen how

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Speaker 1: this would actually work in practice. But you've also got

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Speaker 1: to remember Donald Trump wants to remain close with Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk because he's donating tens of millions of dollars to

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Speaker 1: his campaign at the moment, and he's also very happy

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Speaker 1: to promote Donald Trump on his campaign on his social

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Speaker 1: media accounts as well. We has tens of millions to followers,

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of reasons why Donald Trump wants

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Speaker 1: to remain close to Musk at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Match It's good to talk to you, mate, Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for that update. That's which we can us

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Speaker 2: correspondent for more from hither Duplassy Allen Drive.

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