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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold in the US with US this morning. Richard,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. Run Trump's first week down, California

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Speaker 1: may become independent. This is a proposal. What has been

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Speaker 1: a furious start to Trump two point zero, with no

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Speaker 1: end to the presidential orders and presidential proposals, anything that

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Speaker 1: comes out of the man's mind, I guess, and that

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Speaker 1: is leading to much the same political divisions that feature

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Speaker 1: during the election. California Secretary of State has just approved yes,

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Speaker 1: an effort to gather signatures for a vote in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty eight on whether the state should leave the US

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Speaker 1: and become an independent country. So what is it? Greenland,

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Speaker 1: inn California out Both Extremely unlikely, I would have to say,

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Speaker 1: but it shows the ongoing divisions. There was just a

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Speaker 1: poll done in swing states and one Republican voter in

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Speaker 1: Ohio says, quote Trump is being bold and thinking big,

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Speaker 1: while a Democratic Wisconsin says quote the man is unhinged.

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Speaker 1: Some of the initial Trump moves have even his own

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Speaker 1: party reps squirming a little bit. Leading among them are

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Speaker 1: those those pardons for the fifteen hundred from the January

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Speaker 1: of the six riots, including some of those who beat

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Speaker 1: the police. One of those riot planners. The boss of

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Speaker 1: the Oathkeepers group, Stuart Rhodes, was in prison for eighteen

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Speaker 1: years for seditious conspiracy when he was freed by Trump.

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Speaker 1: With all the others. He says he was convicted only

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Speaker 1: on a show trial. He's still barred by the courts

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Speaker 1: from going anywhere near the US capital, but he turned

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Speaker 1: up last night in Las Vegas at a Trump rally,

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Speaker 1: leading Republican Senator Lindsay Graham to say this, I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's a restriction on him being there. I don't

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Speaker 1: like this. He says. He thinks Trump pardoning violent January

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Speaker 1: the sixth defendants was a mistake. Another small presidential order

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Speaker 1: that has drawn I guess little attention in the rush

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Speaker 1: of things, is that Trump ordered to remove a diversity

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Speaker 1: program in the military here where recruits would be shown

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Speaker 1: videos of military history, including female pilots and African American

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Speaker 1: pilots in the Air Force. So no videos to be

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Speaker 1: shown of the Tuskegee mm And now these were the

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Speaker 1: famed Black aviators four hundred and fifty African American pilots

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Speaker 1: who fought in World War Two in segregated units and

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Speaker 1: their combat successes. At the time led Truman back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight. We're talking to serve equally in the

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Speaker 1: American military. Now that story is not to be told.

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Speaker 1: No videos in basic training now of black military history.

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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, folks. President Trump now says he wants

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Speaker 1: to quote clean out Gaza as well, that is, remove

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Speaker 1: Palestinians from the area, and I guess seed the territory

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Speaker 1: to Israel with Jordan and Egypt taking the Palestinians. There

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Speaker 1: is no indication zip that Egypt and Jordan would ever

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Speaker 1: endorse such a thing. In fact, history suggests the exact opposite.

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Speaker 1: Senator Graham says he doesn't know what Trump is talking

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Speaker 1: about with that. Meantime, Trump has ended the Biden ban

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Speaker 1: on two thousand pound US bunker busting bombs to Israel.

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Speaker 1: Most of the weapons Israel has used in that catastrophic

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Speaker 1: fighting were American made, but Biden drew a line on

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Speaker 1: those most powerful bombs, and that President Trump is allowing

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Speaker 1: them in again. The confirmation hearings for the Trump Cabinet

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Speaker 1: will continue this week after Peter Hegss Pete Hegss's raped

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Speaker 1: in as Defense Secretary, despite having no experience of leading

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Speaker 1: any large organization and having his history, as we know,

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Speaker 1: alleged sexual and alcohol abuse, including stories about him having

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Speaker 1: on one occasion three Gin and Tonics for breakfast. But

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Speaker 1: there you go. Chelsea Gabbart has her nomination hearing coming

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Speaker 1: up soon. She met with Syria's assade before Syrian people

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Speaker 1: finally dumped the dictator, and she's voiced pro Russian sentiments

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Speaker 1: on foreign policy, which I've raised doubts about her being

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Speaker 1: chosen as National Intelligence Director. So we'll see on that.

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Speaker 1: President Trump is returning from his California trip, where he

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Speaker 1: said there would be federal support for fire recovery with

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Speaker 1: the natural disasters that the state has seen, but he

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Speaker 1: said this would all be contingent on California putting in

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Speaker 1: a voter id system. Now that's been pressed by some

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Speaker 1: Republican politicos who think it would increase the Republican Party vote.

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Speaker 1: So that's the backdrop to the California independence idea, with

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Speaker 1: some Dems saying if the federal government wants to tie

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Speaker 1: political strings to disaster aid, maybe California could go it alone.

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Speaker 1: Since Californi you provide so much of the tax money

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Speaker 1: that the federal government deals with goodness in massive day

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Speaker 1: for NFL Conference Championship day to day. Yeah, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be huge in football. The final playoffs before the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. The Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are looking for a three peter third successive Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: They're matched against the Buffalo Bills, Go Bills, while the

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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders with They're amazing rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels are

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Speaker 1: hoping to create some history with him being becoming the

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Speaker 1: first rookie QB to make the Super Bowl. Some of

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Speaker 1: the Commanders have taken over a Philly Hard Rock Cafes,

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia where the game's being played today, as the Eagles

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Speaker 1: have been chanting for their team. Yeah, well, at least

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Speaker 1: they did better than their own city's mayor, Cherrell Parker,

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Speaker 1: who tried to do this chat for supporters the other day.

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Speaker 1: He owe, let's go bird. You get that E L.

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Speaker 1: Gk Es. I don't know what kind of bird she

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Speaker 1: was thinking of. Brilliant Richard, Thank you for that. Richard

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Speaker 1: Arnold our US correspondent with us this Morning. For more

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