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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. Yeah, and Mitchinson is our US

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Speaker 1: correspondent and with US Now. Hello, Dan.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know we went anywhere, so I wasn't aware

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Speaker 2: we were back, but here we are.

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Speaker 1: I'm just surprised he resisted the I'm surprised he resisted

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Speaker 1: putting baby at the end, because I reckon I would

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Speaker 1: have gone with that. Now you've avoided another shutdown.

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Speaker 2: We did, which is kind of a nice President Trump's

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Speaker 2: side of one point two trillion dollars spending package that

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Speaker 2: ended this partial shutdown that we had, so that it's

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Speaker 2: going to keep our government going through about the thirtieth

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Speaker 2: of September right now. And I think the President really

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Speaker 2: wanted to get this passed as quickly as possible because

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Speaker 2: he didn't want this hanging over his head with midterm

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Speaker 2: campaigning going on. And so after the Senate passed the

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Speaker 2: package last week, he started making the calls to House

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Speaker 2: Republicans and said, Okay, let's just pass this thing. We're

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Speaker 2: going to stamp out any demands by some of the

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Speaker 2: party to make changes. He just wanted to and to

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Speaker 2: move on.

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Speaker 1: Now, what is this. What do the Republicans mean when

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Speaker 1: they say that they want to nationalize the vote, Well.

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Speaker 2: They want to take more of the voting rights away

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Speaker 2: from the state and give it to the federal government.

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Speaker 2: And President Trump has been fixated on, you know, claims

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Speaker 2: of election fraud, and the Democrats are out with these

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Speaker 2: conspiracies to undocumented immigrants voting, and the New York Times

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Speaker 2: did this fantastic job on the story right here, and

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Speaker 2: he is pushing for some drastic changes right now. He

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Speaker 2: wants Republican officials to take over voting procedures in about

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Speaker 2: fifteen states. He's not saying which states right now, but

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Speaker 2: really wants to nationalize the whole voting system, which would

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Speaker 2: raise a lot of worries about his administration's efforts, I

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Speaker 2: guess to get involved in elections in all fifty states.

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Speaker 1: I mean, surely they're trying it on with us. Surely

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Speaker 1: they're not actually going to be able to do it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. No. No, I mean, basically, you know,

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Speaker 2: he wants to expand the federal government's role in our elections,

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Speaker 2: and I would say the majority of states here would

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Speaker 2: push back on this, and as we've seen in other

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Speaker 2: countries around the world, and this isn't a path that

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Speaker 2: we want to go down, you know for democracy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are the fringe prosecutors want with Elon Musk?

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Speaker 2: Then they want to talk to him as as soon

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Speaker 2: as possible. Basically what they did was they rated the

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Speaker 2: offices of the social media platform x today in France

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Speaker 2: and to allegations like we talked about last week with

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Speaker 2: spreading child sexual abuse images and deep fakes. And Musk's company,

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Speaker 2: which I think is x Ai, is facing a lot

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Speaker 2: of pushback from countries around the world, including Britain because

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Speaker 2: of data privacy breaches right now. So a lot of

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Speaker 2: this has to do with how they handle personal information

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Speaker 2: when they developed. And I don't know if you use

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Speaker 2: the chatbot Grock or not, but a lot of people

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Speaker 2: do right now, and that's what they're concerned about. How

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Speaker 2: much information went into develop this that is is being

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Speaker 2: used that probably shouldn't. And Musk, of course is pushing

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Speaker 2: back on all these allegations, seeing this is all just political.

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Speaker 1: Dan, It's always good to talk to you, mate. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you again next week. You look after yourself.

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