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Speaker 1: Luxon's stucky. Poor old Luxon stuck between a rock and

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Speaker 1: a hard place, really is. And it's only going to

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Speaker 1: get worse as we head into next year. Just when

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Speaker 1: he's done dealing with David Seymour and the Treaty Bill

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Speaker 1: he never wanted to go with but agreed to to

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Speaker 1: get into government that was shut down on Thursday, another

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Speaker 1: fire kicks off. He's having to hose that down too.

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Speaker 1: He's been hosing it down since last Friday. Now that's

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Speaker 1: Winston and his big noting about how to deal with Trump. Right,

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Speaker 1: the phone calls that Luxon hastily arrange to avoid being

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Speaker 1: in the House for the death of the Treaty Principal's

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Speaker 1: Bill are the same phone calls that have now started

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Speaker 1: this tussle with Winston. He just can't win either way.

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Speaker 1: There's Coalition land mines to step on. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Winston first made these comments last Thursday. He said Luxon

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Speaker 1: should have called him or whatever the words were, so

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Speaker 1: he should have just picked up the phone, called them

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Speaker 1: straight away, squared it off, have it out, whatever, move on. Instead,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to announce a tourism boost at SkyCity on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and it's still dragging out. Some journalist in the press

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Speaker 1: conference yesterday even asked Luxon where the head apologized to

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Speaker 1: Winston Peters. For goodness sakes, what an outrageous question. For

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Speaker 1: the record, Luxon gave a speech basically saying he supports

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Speaker 1: free trade, big deal. We all do. Then he calls

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Speaker 1: a couple of world leaders he's met and tells them

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Speaker 1: he likes free trade, big deal. Guess what, that's fine

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Speaker 1: because he's the Prime minister. That's actually his job. He

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Speaker 1: is the boss. Winston's just feeling a bit left out

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Speaker 1: over and tonguer obviously, so he's running his mouth off.

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Speaker 1: What does Luxeon do. Does he just have a private

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Speaker 1: call and hope that Winston calms down, or does he

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Speaker 1: take a harder line in public with Winston call him out,

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Speaker 1: tell us he's only the Foreign Minister, not the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister and he should stay in his lane. Whatever the strategy,

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Speaker 1: he needs to figure it out quick smart. As I

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Speaker 1: wrote about at the weekend, Winston's only just getting started.

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Speaker 1: There's an election to fight next year, and he'll be

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Speaker 1: unshackled from the Deputy pm rains next month. Then it's

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Speaker 1: all on for young and old and Luxon this week

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