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Speaker 1: Here the Auckland Council should do as it bloody Well

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Speaker 1: is told. Oh, I couldn't agree more. I'm with us

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Speaker 1: right now, is Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent Ello Dan, Hello, Heather,

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Speaker 1: So you as pride? Is it a record low? And

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Speaker 1: I think we can guess.

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Speaker 2: Why Why do you think?

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Speaker 1: Well, do you want to blame Trump because I want

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Speaker 1: to blame Biden?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's both.

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Speaker 3: Actually, to tell you the truth, I think, like everything

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Speaker 3: else these days, it's kind of split down party lines. Republicans,

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Speaker 3: according to this new study, are more proud to be

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Speaker 3: American than Democrats and Independence About two and five say

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Speaker 3: they're extremely proud. And that's about the same maybe a

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Speaker 3: little lesson we've seen in the last five years. But

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Speaker 3: once you dig into the weeds here on this thing,

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Speaker 3: and there are a lot of weeds, what it boils

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Speaker 3: down to is that I think pride is at the

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Speaker 3: lowest we've seen on record, and even for Republicans, that

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Speaker 3: pride levels down to the lowest point that it's been.

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Speaker 3: So part of this survey is a little vague, and

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Speaker 3: I think it can be interpreted in different ways depending

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Speaker 3: on the party that you know you support. It could

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Speaker 3: be the economy, it could be the inflation, it could

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Speaker 3: be how the US and the presidential candidate have come

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Speaker 3: across on the world stage.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a number of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: I imagine that it's going to continue to track down

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Speaker 1: regardless of who wins the next election. But on Biden,

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Speaker 1: has he now asked them to bring that interview they're

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Speaker 1: going to do. They're doing the interview today, but it

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Speaker 1: was only supposed to play out in full on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Has he asked them to bring that.

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Speaker 3: Forward, Well, that's apparently the reason right now. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be televised tomorrow our time in primetime,

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Speaker 3: and obviously a follow up to that the behore showing

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Speaker 3: he had last week on the presidential debate on CNN.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be interviewed by George Stephanopolis and they

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Speaker 3: were going to break this into a number of parts,

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Speaker 3: with the main part airing over the weekend and next week.

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Speaker 3: But now they're doing it, you know, about three days earlier.

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Speaker 3: They are going to offer a transcript of the unedited

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Speaker 3: interview that's going to be made available. But I think

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Speaker 3: it's interesting again, and we mentioned this before, the fact

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Speaker 3: that this is going to be recorded, and this is

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Speaker 3: going to be edited in a way that ABC probably

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Speaker 3: would like to see it edited. George Stephanopp Bliss, you know,

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Speaker 3: he's he's a former Clinton aid right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a number of reasons why it would be.

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Speaker 3: Nice to see the president do this live, uninterrupted and

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Speaker 3: not edited that way. Nobody can say, well, the network

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Speaker 3: try to spin it this way, or the network try

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Speaker 3: to spin it that way.

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Speaker 1: Is George Stefanopolis going to go hard on him?

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Speaker 3: You know, I hope he does. And you know what

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Speaker 3: I've got to tell you, I've been kind of disappointed.

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Speaker 3: I've been very disappointed that there hasn't been a single

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Speaker 3: interview that I've seen with Biden where the interviewer really

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Speaker 3: presses him about why he feels the need to run

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Speaker 3: at his agent, why why feels the need to support him.

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Speaker 3: You know, everything points to a person who obviously is

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Speaker 3: enough for this job, and who has now said that

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Speaker 3: he wants to get to bed by eight o'clock, so

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Speaker 3: he's going to cancel appointments and events after that time.

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Speaker 3: I just don't understand why a solid journalist just does

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Speaker 3: not ask these questions of the president of the United

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Speaker 3: States unless they're afraid. Well, if I'm going to ask this,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to have access to him in the future.

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Speaker 1: That's a very good point. Actually, yeah, I mean, like

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Speaker 1: I think a lot, a lot of a lot on

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Speaker 1: this for George Stephanopolis as well, so hopefully he does

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Speaker 1: go had So it turns out that there is a

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Speaker 1: benefit to all the teenagers being unable to use a

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Speaker 1: manual car like what you guys would call a stick shift,

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Speaker 1: because it means it can't nic your car if it's

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Speaker 1: got a stick shift.

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Speaker 3: How good's that's one of the main reasons. It's also

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Speaker 3: very frustrating because when you come over stay to New

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Speaker 3: Zealand as I have, and I can drive a stick shift.

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Speaker 3: I just can't drive a stick shift when it's on

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Speaker 3: the other side, when I have to use my.

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Speaker 2: Left hand, oh yeah, used to my right hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I can't do that.

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Speaker 3: But only eighteen percent of American drivers can handle this

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Speaker 3: right now, and it is easier to learn to drive

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Speaker 3: with than automatic. Schools are not teaching this over here anymore.

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Speaker 3: If you go though to New Zealand or Europe, the UK,

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Speaker 3: most places in the world, you'll find more stick shifts

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Speaker 3: than automatics. They're a lot less expensive to rent. There's

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Speaker 3: often a shortage of automatic so that causes a big

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Speaker 3: problem during tourism season. And I mean it's a really little,

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Speaker 3: tiny thing, but when you look at it, and especially

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Speaker 3: with the shortages that we still are seen because of

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Speaker 3: the pandemic, even if you're looking to buy right now,

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Speaker 3: it's the manual transmissions that are more affordable, especially if

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Speaker 3: your first time buyer kids aren't being taught how to

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Speaker 3: drive these cars, so they can't afford to get into

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Speaker 3: that new car and are having to wait later to

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Speaker 3: buy that first clunker.

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Speaker 1: Interesting headn't thought of that, hey, Dan, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your weekend. Dan Mitchison, US correspondent.

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