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Speaker 1: Plans to go kes from field. Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: The Georgia election interesting. So pro Russia, b PO, pro EU.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Russia wins.

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Speaker 3: It does look a bit like that, although there are

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Speaker 3: allegations coming from election observers of ballot box stuffing, of intimidation,

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Speaker 3: coercion among voters. I mean, as I'm speaking to Mike,

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Speaker 3: seeing pictures coming home of a big demonstration in the

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Speaker 3: center of the capital Tbilis, tens of thousands coming out

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Speaker 3: onto the streets. They've been called up there by the president,

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Speaker 3: Salame Zerahbashpheeley, who alleges there were irregularities in the vote.

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Speaker 3: She actually has come out and said that this was

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Speaker 3: what she described as a Russian special operation.

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Speaker 2: They say that in.

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Speaker 3: Fact, the ruling party, the Georgian Dream, that Pro Russia party,

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Speaker 3: won only forty percent of the votes.

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Speaker 2: So it's a real worry.

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Speaker 3: Actually for that region because when you look at that region, Mike,

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Speaker 3: you've got so many tensions there.

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Speaker 2: You've got Georgia itself.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's split between Russia, Iran, Turkey, all of

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Speaker 3: them claiming a bit of it. We saw back in

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Speaker 3: what twenty eight Russia invaded parts.

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Speaker 2: Of Georgia, which I said, we had a.

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Speaker 3: Big Russian minority living there. There are still UN and

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Speaker 3: EU observers that station there to try and stop more

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Speaker 3: conflict happening there. So it's a real concern that yet

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Speaker 3: again you're seeing on Europe's eastern flank pro Russian parties,

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Speaker 3: oligarchs taking power, and question marks over exactly whether or

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Speaker 3: not these were free or fair elections exactly.

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Speaker 1: So the next question is is anyone actually apart from

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Speaker 1: the people on the street, going to do anything about it?

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Speaker 1: And then you come to another election, which is in America,

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Speaker 1: and of a certain bloke who was standing in Medicine

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Speaker 1: Square Garden yesterday wins. The implications for the EU, I

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Speaker 1: would have thought are enormous.

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Speaker 2: Oh, just absolutely enormous.

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Speaker 3: I mean they have started thinking about this, what about

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Speaker 3: three years ago when former President Donald Trump said that

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Speaker 3: he was going to have another shot at getting back

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Speaker 3: into the White House. What they're looking at is you're

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Speaker 3: actually operating on what he has said rather than what

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Speaker 3: he might do. So what the EU had done already,

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Speaker 3: that's set up a special task force. They're calling it

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Speaker 3: a rapid reaction force that will hit the ground as

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Speaker 3: soon as the winner is announced. They do not expect

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Speaker 3: any changes to wait until.

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Speaker 2: Inauguration next year.

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Speaker 3: They're expecting that if Trump wins, these changes will happen

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Speaker 3: very quickly, so they've.

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Speaker 2: Set up this task force.

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Speaker 3: We're already seeing ambassadors, we're seeing people from various countries

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Speaker 3: coming to Brussels to talk about what could happen. So

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Speaker 3: essentially they're saying that they know that Trump will not

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Speaker 3: defend NATO, particularly what he described as delinquent NATO allies,

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Speaker 3: that is, those that don't pay enough into their coffers

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Speaker 3: to pay for their defense. They're also expecting if he

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Speaker 3: does come to power, that there will be immediate across

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Speaker 3: the world tariffs of between ten and twenty percent on imports.

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Speaker 3: So that's what they're looking at. They're also having a

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Speaker 3: very close look at Trump's entourage who would come in,

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Speaker 3: what his policies would be on on defense.

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Speaker 2: Also a lot you know, you're also seeing here in France.

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Speaker 3: The French Foreign Ministry has set up a special task

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Speaker 3: force to look at this as well, because I think

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Speaker 3: one of their concerns is Mike, that Trump will exploit

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Speaker 3: internal EU divisions, perhaps start picking off certain countries because

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Speaker 3: they know he does prefer bilateral relations rather than relations

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Speaker 3: with these big groupings such as the European Union.

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Speaker 1: Grant insight. Well done, Catherine Ketch up next Tuesday. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much. What you can say about Trump that's irrefutable,

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Speaker 1: of course, is that when he first became president, there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of countries with a NATO that weren't

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Speaker 1: paying their way. America pays over three percent of GDP,

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Speaker 1: whereas much of the countries didn't play the two percent

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Speaker 1: they said they would pay. And now if you look

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Speaker 1: at the number of countries paying the two percent plus

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Speaker 1: as a direct result of his basically pointing the finger

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Speaker 1: and say pull it out and get on with it,

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Speaker 1: he can climb the victory in that department. I would

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