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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on

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Speaker 1: an early edition with one Root Love where you Live

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Speaker 1: News Talks.

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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six after five GDP

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Speaker 2: day today. We'll head to Westpac. We've got employment numbers

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Speaker 2: from Seek for you. We'll go to Washington's Senate hearings

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Speaker 2: underway there and Westport Whale route is Gonski. We'll ask

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Speaker 2: why the agenda. Thursday, the nineteenth of March. Israel's hunting

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Speaker 2: Iranian leaders is in their hideouts and taking them out

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Speaker 2: one by one. They've got the intelligence minister overnight.

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Speaker 3: This is meant to enable the brave people of Iran

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Speaker 3: to celebrate the Festival of Fire. So celebrate and happy

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Speaker 3: in orders. We're watching from above.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Trump's pick to run this is in the US Homeland

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Speaker 2: Security Mark Wwayne Mullen is his name replaced Tulsey Gabbard.

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Speaker 2: He's getting grilled in the Senate.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe in political violence. I've made that very clear,

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Speaker 5: but sometimes theoretically speaking, this sir, I get it. It's

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Speaker 5: about character assassination. For you, that's the way this game

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Speaker 5: is played. Understand it. And you are making this about you,

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Speaker 5: which is fine, but that doesn't keep me as soxscascination

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Speaker 5: when you are the one lighting the assault.

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Speaker 2: All right, settle down, separate hearing underway on Capital Hell.

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Speaker 2: Will the Russians or Iran or anyone else meddle in

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Speaker 2: the midterms?

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Speaker 6: Are you saying there is no foreign threat to our

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Speaker 6: elections in the midterms this year?

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Speaker 7: As I stated in the outset of my remarks, this

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Speaker 7: year's annual Threat Assessment matches the prioritization of threats and.

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Speaker 1: Answer the question yes or no?

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Speaker 6: Is there foreign threat interference to our elections?

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Speaker 8: As she laid out, are there foreign please allow me

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Speaker 8: to answer the questions.

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Speaker 2: Seems like that was useful. Let's go to Australia. Kyle

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Speaker 2: and Jackie Oh, this is the Sydney They were then

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Speaker 2: syndicated to Melbourne Radio show Music radio show, but a

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Speaker 2: lot of talking and a lot of content in there

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Speaker 2: as well. Kyl Sandalan's has had his contract terminated by

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Speaker 2: ARN after an on air row with Jackie O last month.

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Speaker 2: Now both hosts a threatening legal election.

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Speaker 6: Oh sand Lands is going on about these hundred billion

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Speaker 2: God forgive me here he is again quite a lot

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Speaker 6: Oh sand Lands is going on about these hundred billion

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Speaker 6: dollar contract I mean, my god, We've got people who

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Speaker 6: can't put a roof over their head, and people who

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Speaker 6: ten million dollar contract with Jackie Oh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, goodness, what a goose. Get ahead of

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Speaker 1: the headlines on early edition with Ryan Bridge and one

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Speaker 1: roof Love where you Live News Talks, that'd.

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Speaker 2: Be eight after five. We've got the oil price spiking, futures,

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Speaker 2: brink cruise spiking to one hundred and eight dollars a

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Speaker 2: barrel overnight. I'll bring you more on that in a second.

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Speaker 2: But if you are driving your car and you you know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of us are speeding, at least they're issuing

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Speaker 2: more fines. So there's new numbers on this. Five hundred

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Speaker 2: up and up. This is the highest number in fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: he told me it was going to be thirty dollars fine.

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Speaker 2: Is that really going to change your behavior if you

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Speaker 2: I've had parking fines twice that amount, you know, and

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Speaker 2: I am I saying it's put up the fines. Well,

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Speaker 2: One other little tidbit for you this morning is your mortgage.

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Speaker 2: So fixed mortgage rates are going up, up up. A

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Speaker 2: Good news they are putting those rates up as well.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good, but only for terms of one to five years.

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Speaker 2: Now the problem, as interest dot Co points out this morning,

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Speaker 2: longer term deposit rates are not popular with savers, so

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Speaker 2: it might look like they're offsetting the rises and your

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Speaker 2: what savers prefer. Eleven after five, Ryan Bridge, and you're

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Speaker 2: on News Talk ZB Next we will talk about the

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Speaker 2: government's changes to migration rules. News be back in a

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live.

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Speaker 2: What news talks had been fourteen after five, So one

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Speaker 2: hundred and eight dollars a barrel. This is Brent crude futures. Why, well,

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Speaker 2: there have been some attacks overnight. Iranian energy sites have

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Speaker 2: the world's largest such facility, and Iran has shared this

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Speaker 1: Rain Bridge, the.

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Speaker 2: Government's cracking down on criminal migrants and refugees applying here

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Speaker 2: there is a catch. Miss your biometrics appointment and your

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Speaker 2: claim could be canceled. Simon is immigration lawyer, chairman of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Association of Migration and Investment joins me this morning. Simon,

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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, Good to have you on the show. Overall,

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Speaker 2: these changes are hard to argue with them.

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Speaker 9: They well, if someone doesn't turn up to an appointment,

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Speaker 8: It seems a little bit stark if that's what in

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Speaker 8: made a valid claim for asylum. Well a claim for asylum.

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Speaker 8: Whether it's valid or not is another matter, but that's

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Speaker 8: this could be really a problem for people to actually

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Speaker 2: Okay fair, So maybe there's a tweak that can be

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Speaker 8: It actually still can be quite clear because they haven't

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Speaker 8: The exclusion clause of the Refugee Convention says that you

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Speaker 2: Who cares what we've signed. If you've got refugee claims

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Speaker 2: to determine whether they should get refugee status. That's wrong,

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Speaker 8: It would be wrong if there was no other means

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Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying? But this is far more efficient.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get rid of them anyway.

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Speaker 8: facing serious a threat of serious harm, which could include death,

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Speaker 8: doesn't We're not clear how serious is serious. If they've

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Speaker 2: Simon, I appreciate your time this morning. Thanks very much

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Speaker 2: for being with me. Simon Lrent, immigration lawyer, would love

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Speaker 2: Brian Bread, Right, let's talk aviation now, time Air twenty

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Speaker 2: Iron King Aviation Industry commentated with us this morning. Iron

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Speaker 2: Iron appreciate your time this morning. That's Iron King Aviation commentator.

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Speaker 2: It is twenty three minutes after five Brian Bridge. Rolls

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Speaker 2: ZIB News TALKSB five twenty six. Why today's GDP number

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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth

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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roofe Love

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Ryan.

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Speaker 2: What's going on with the Southland's council regig Well?

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Speaker 7: The Local Government Commission's undertaken a reorganization investigation after Southland

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Speaker 7: and Environments Southland Local body politicians have had their say

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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather, Jamie? Fine?

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Speaker 2: Have a good day, Clears in christ this morning, Clear,

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Speaker 2: good morning. You've got details on how this Jetstar flight

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Speaker 11: Yeah, this was a plane that landed from Auckland to

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Speaker 12: Made it safer.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, clear and joy Max and Wellington Morning Max,

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Speaker 2: Good morning. So the fairy cost dispute rages on.

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Speaker 13: Yes, the reporter at the Post who's been in a

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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Cloudy periods with southerlya's a

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Speaker 2: Auckland morning. Neva. A guilty plea from a former Auckland

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Speaker 12: Now, Gary Gorham admitted to accepting more than two hundred

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Speaker 12: also disclosing official information on six occasions between April twenty

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Speaker 12: Some afternoon cloud.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, it's hot, isn't it?

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Speaker 12: Twenty six is the high today?

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Speaker 2: Brilliant? Never thank you? Nineteen minutes and yes it is

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Speaker 2: hot nineteen minutes away from six. By the way, I

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Speaker 2: told you earlier about the attack. So the US and

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Speaker 2: Israel been going after this gas field, South Pa gas field.

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Speaker 2: This is shared between Iran and Kata, so the Qataris

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Speaker 2: are actually quite upset about this too, and it's the

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Speaker 2: largest natural gas field in the world, and the US

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Speaker 2: and Israel have started hitting it. Kata not happy, of course,

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Speaker 2: Iran not happy. And now Iran's revolutionary Gars they are

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Speaker 2: ensuring evacuation warnings for several oil facilities across Saudi Arabia,

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Speaker 2: the UAE and Katan. So basically America hits their gas fields,

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Speaker 2: they will hit the Gulf States oil and they will

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Speaker 2: continue to choke the Strait. Therefore, hitting a gas field

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Speaker 2: drives the price of oil up. It's now one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eight dollars a barrel. Overnight News Talks, HEB News

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Speaker 2: Talks HEB. We mentioned earlier that banks here are starting

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Speaker 2: to up their rates as the swap rates go up.

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Speaker 2: Well over in the UK, they actually have some numbers

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Speaker 2: on how much their mortgage costs have gone up after

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Speaker 2: the war in Iran began, and home owners they reckon

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Speaker 2: their sixteen A typical mortgage sixteen one hundred dollars a

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Speaker 2: year more expensive than before the war. And the reason

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Speaker 2: for this is the banks have basically been pulling all

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Speaker 2: of the deals and all of the specials that they've

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Speaker 2: had that's been had the biggest impact so far. So

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Speaker 2: that's based on a twenty five year mortgage for a

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand pound average two year fixed

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Speaker 2: rate of five point to eight percent.

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Speaker 1: It's quarter to six international correspondence with ends and eye

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Speaker 1: insurance peace of mind for New Zealand business couple.

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Speaker 2: Of Bennet Herringchapenning in Washington at the moment. Jagru To

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Speaker 2: Dave is our correspondent. Jagruzi, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: So what do we know?

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Speaker 14: Well, first of all, we've got a hearing for the

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Speaker 14: replacement for Homeland Security Secretary. If you remember, President Trump

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Speaker 14: fired Christi Nome over a series of controversies and picked

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Speaker 14: someone called Mark Wayne Mullin instead. And it's his confirmation hearing,

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Speaker 14: so he has to convince senators in Congress that he

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Speaker 14: is the right man for the job, and he's doing

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Speaker 14: that by saying that his goal in six months is

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Speaker 14: that the DHS is not the lead story every single day.

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Speaker 14: These he's referring to controversies under Christie No, most notably

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Speaker 14: the actions of federal agents implementing the Trump administration's aggressive

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Speaker 14: immigration crackdown, which resulted in the killing of two US

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Speaker 14: citizens in Minnesota by federal agents. So, you know, I

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Speaker 14: guess some of the standout moments really so far have

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Speaker 14: been Mullin saying that it was a mistake to call

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Speaker 14: Alex Pretty, a man who was shot in Minnesota, a

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Speaker 14: deranged person, but he refused to retract his comment about

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Speaker 14: the earlier shooting of Rene Good. He said it was justified,

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Speaker 14: and he is saying that there's an investigation ongoing. It

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Speaker 14: was a split second decision. So that's one of the

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Speaker 14: things that's been happening. And the other thing is this

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Speaker 14: clash that he's had with a fellow Republican, Rand Paul.

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Speaker 14: He's the chair of the committee who's holding the hearing,

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Speaker 14: and you know, they've got sort of this historic beef.

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Speaker 14: Mollin had made some comments about Rand Paul in twenty

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Speaker 14: seventeen following an assault that Ran Paul had experienced, and

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Speaker 14: Paul took this opportunity to air those historic grievances, and

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Speaker 14: you know, questioned his temperament really being able to run

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Speaker 14: an agent, suggesting that he alleging that he's got anger

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Speaker 14: issues and is he the right person to lead an

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Speaker 14: agency that's got issues with the use of force. So

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Speaker 14: these are just some of the sort the fiery exchanges

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Speaker 14: that have been happening at this hearing.

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Speaker 2: Right, they've also hit a hearing on Worldwide three. It's

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Speaker 2: anything interesting come out of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: Tulsa Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has been speaking

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Speaker 14: alongside Cash Patel, the FBI director, and the CIA directors.

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Speaker 14: Gabbard's statements would have been interesting because she's been running

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Speaker 14: a bit of a tight rope with regards to Iran. Historically,

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Speaker 14: she's been very against US intervention abroad, particularly in places

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Speaker 14: like Iran, and here we have you know, the president

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Speaker 14: of her boss effectively haven't gone into Iran, and so

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Speaker 14: she has been speaking about this. Now. What's interesting is

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Speaker 14: that according to her written statement, she was to have

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Speaker 14: said that as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's

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Speaker 14: nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There have been no efforts

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Speaker 14: since then to try and rebuild their enrichment capability. But

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Speaker 14: she's kind of deviated from these written remarks which are

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Speaker 14: one Center questioned her on and she said that she'd

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Speaker 14: skipped some of these portions that he referred to because

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Speaker 14: time was running long. But Senator Warner accused her of

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Speaker 14: having chosen to essentially skip over the parts that contradict

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Speaker 14: the President, who is arguing that there's an imminent threat

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Speaker 14: posed by Iran. So this is just some of the

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Speaker 14: testimony that we've been hearing from that. But you know,

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Speaker 14: the Middle East is clearly the front and center of

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Speaker 14: this hearing, which is, even though it's on worldwide throughout

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Speaker 14: the Middle East, obviously the key at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Jagrudy Dave are US correspondent. Thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Eleven to six Brian Bridge, Hittypter today. In quarter four,

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Speaker 2: that's the three months to December, obviously, most economists expected

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Speaker 2: to land around point three point four percent. The Reserve

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Speaker 2: Bank was expecting point five percent. Kelly ych Old, WISPAC

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Speaker 2: chief economist, Kelly, good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: If it lands where you think it will, which is

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Speaker 2: point four, how significant is that? What does it mean

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Speaker 2: for us?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's actually a bit dated now, isn't it. I

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Speaker 4: mean we're talking about what happened in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 4: of last year. It will be encouraging that we will

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Speaker 4: have recorded a second consecutive decent quarter of growth. But

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Speaker 4: we're all looking forward to see how this Arab war

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Speaker 4: is going to influence growth sort of through the middle

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Speaker 4: of this year now, and obviously that's where the flock

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Speaker 4: of war is such that it's hard to known.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously that's backwards looking, and you've revised down your

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Speaker 2: forecasts I think two point eight percent, down from three

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Speaker 2: point three percent for the year, which still doesn't sound

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Speaker 2: like defeat to me. Kelly, how much of this comes

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Speaker 2: down to sentiment and confidence? You know, when we had

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Speaker 2: the Liberation Day last year and business is tightened, consumers tightened.

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Speaker 2: How much of this comes down to how confident we

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Speaker 2: feel going into it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it does matter in terms of the

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Speaker 4: size of the impacts. But there are some actual, real

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Speaker 4: economic dislocations occurrying out there at the global economy now

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Speaker 4: because the oil isn't flowing, the fuels flowing, and economies

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Speaker 4: depend on that. I think it's certainly true that if

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Speaker 4: the confidence and the consumers in the business sector plunges

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Speaker 4: relatively hard, then we'll get an earlier and larger impact

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Speaker 4: on the economy. I have optimism that, given we've still

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Speaker 4: got very strong commodity prices, the exchange rates helping us

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Speaker 4: out here, and also we've got quite low interest rates,

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Speaker 4: that we're very well placed, I think to whether it

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Speaker 4: compared to what we could have been.

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Speaker 2: Hard to disagree with that. So what about overnight? I

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Speaker 2: see the oil has gone up again one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eight dollars a barrel. There's gas field has been hidden.

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Speaker 2: Then there's the fair that more oil fields will be

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Speaker 2: hit as a result. Does that worry you or is

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Speaker 2: this just it's up and down at the moment.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 4: I mean this continues to worry me because I think

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Speaker 4: what the markets are gradually working out here is that

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Speaker 4: it's a long road back to resolution of this issue.

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Speaker 4: Iran can probably expend relatively little effort to cause quite

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Speaker 4: a lot of damage, and you know, until that straight

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Speaker 4: or moves opens up, then nobody's going to be eating

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Speaker 4: their taco.

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Speaker 2: Kelly ech Old, westpat Chief Economists eight minutes away from

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Speaker 2: six News Talks AB.

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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day early

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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love Where You

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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.

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Speaker 2: B six to six lots of texts this morning. I

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Speaker 2: have to say on immigration after we spoke to our

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Speaker 2: lawyer just after five o'clock. Brian, if you commit a

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Speaker 2: serious crime, you've now lost the privilege of living here.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. A

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Speaker 2: country should do what's best for its people and its

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Speaker 2: country ahead of any other. Ran bread Bridge, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 15: Well, I can tell you what was a fascinating case

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Speaker 15: in Australia that's been going for years and was came

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Speaker 15: to a sort of a conclusion yesterday and these it's

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Speaker 15: the same story as we're having here with immigration. So

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Speaker 15: these guys come to the country, they get stay, then

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Speaker 15: they commit crime. Yes, or there are people who have

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Speaker 15: been criminals but arrive in the country and then so

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Speaker 15: they did lock them up. The court said you can't

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Speaker 15: lock them up, that's illegal. You've got to let them out.

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Speaker 15: They then did that thing with NARU, remember that where

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Speaker 15: they pay NARU billions of dollars and you go park

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Speaker 15: them and NARU. The people haven't stuck to NARU. They

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Speaker 15: put on ankle bracelets. So this was yesterday's case. They

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Speaker 15: stick on an ankle bracelet and they say you can't

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Speaker 15: do that either. So you as a government, you seemingly can't,

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Speaker 15: whereas I would have thought your case, there is a

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Speaker 15: simple case. You can make up any rule you want.

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Speaker 2: But well maybe you can't. We sign well we can,

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Speaker 2: but we signed some documents seventy years ago that protects

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Speaker 2: and so they will go to court and then if

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Speaker 2: they win. But this is ridiculous because you can't, like

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Speaker 2: if you come here and you and you murder somebody,

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Speaker 2: nobody will disagree with the apart from our lawyer this

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Speaker 2: more year.

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Speaker 15: But they're lawyers and there's a case to be arguing.

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Speaker 15: That's how lawyers work. Unfortunately, the Brits are doing something

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Speaker 15: with this too.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to make it harder for refugees and asylum seekers.

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Speaker 15: We're just lucky we don't have those problems. I mean,

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Speaker 15: they don't arrive on boats.

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Speaker 2: No. And also the drones. I was thinking yesterday about

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Speaker 2: the drones. You know, you think about the ones flying

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Speaker 2: over those airports in Europe from the Russians, and you

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Speaker 2: think about the ones having the Gulf States. We're too

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Speaker 2: far for a drone, aren't we.

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Speaker 15: Well it depends where youve seen it from. But yes,

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Speaker 15: We're very lucky to be at the bottom of the world.

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Speaker 15: Some days, you know, some days when you worry about

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Speaker 15: being at the end of the chain on the oil.

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Speaker 15: There are other days where you think, well, being at

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Speaker 15: bottom of the world's no bad thing. Miles Hurrell, who

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Speaker 15: quit on Monday, I wasn't going to speak until next week,

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Speaker 15: but he is now. So he's very much the man

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Speaker 15: of the moment for a couple of reasons. One because

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Speaker 15: of his role at Fonterra, and he's moved on at

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Speaker 15: a time of extraordinary success.

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Speaker 2: Unless you asked Winston. The results the results next week.

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Speaker 2: But the hot word.

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Speaker 15: Is increasing as it seems to me to be slightly

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Speaker 15: more than the rumor he's the new CEO of New

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Speaker 15: Zealand Rugby.

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Speaker 2: Oh, come on, that was a rumor. I agree one

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Speaker 2: of those.

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Speaker 15: I agree, I agree, But Gregor Paul, who I am

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Speaker 15: told is of some standing within the sports department, is

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Speaker 15: increasingly convinced it's true.

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Speaker 2: I think it's art call byes. Okay, we look forward

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Speaker 2: to this Whe's with Us MICUs with your ex News

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