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Speaker 1: Christopher Luxen has met with the US President Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: This is a new meeting at the White House. There

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Speaker 1: was the dinner last night, now a new meeting as

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Speaker 1: the NATO summit ramps up. It's been a busy day

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Speaker 1: for the PM meeting with the Indo Pacific leaders before

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Speaker 1: heading to the North to the North Atlantic Council meeting

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Speaker 1: as well as bilateral meetings. He's got later this morning.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now is the New Zealand Herald political editor

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Speaker 1: Claire Trevette. Claire. Let's talk about that new meeting between

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Speaker 1: Luxon and Biden.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's just happened here now. They've sent a photo

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Speaker 2: of the two of them together. It seems that they've

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Speaker 2: had something of a short chat before the next summit

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Speaker 2: meeting that's happening here. We're not sure of the contents

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Speaker 2: of that. We'll talk to Christopher Luxon in another couple

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Speaker 2: of hours and hopefully get a bit more out of it.

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Speaker 2: But they have had what seems to be a more

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Speaker 2: falsome catch up. He hasn't yet had a proper chat

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Speaker 2: with US President Joe Biden, but then at the dinner

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Speaker 2: last night, I think they'd had a handshake as they

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Speaker 2: came many kind of things, so he'll be pretty stoked

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Speaker 2: if he's had a better chat than that. It made him.

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Speaker 2: I think it made him a bit late for the

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Speaker 2: next summit, but it's probably worth it, so we'll find

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Speaker 2: out the full context of that chat a bit later.

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Speaker 1: He's obviously not going into Biden's mental capacity, et cetera

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Speaker 1: for good reason. Have you seen Biden since you've been there,

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Speaker 1: have you seen him speak? Do you have any comment

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Speaker 1: on his mental acuity?

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Speaker 2: Well, the most interesting thing over here is the all

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Speaker 2: of them are being asked about Biden, and the NATO

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Speaker 2: leaders are a bit nervous about it because Donald Trump's

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Speaker 2: less friendly towards NATO than Joe Biden is. You've had

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Speaker 2: George Clooney coming out. He dropped a real clanger of

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Speaker 2: an ophead and the worst thing he said was that

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party leaders have to stop trying to fall

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Speaker 2: kind of one hundred and fifty five million people that

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Speaker 2: they didn't see what they know, what they thought they

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Speaker 2: had seen. And I've seen Biden, not in the flesh,

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Speaker 2: but I have watched him deliver the main speeches of

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Speaker 2: the NATO function. It's hard to tell with those because

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Speaker 2: they're Autoques basically, so he's more or less just reading

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Speaker 2: them out. But I mean he is you know, he's

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Speaker 2: not a young man, so we'll leave it to them.

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Speaker 2: But I think Nancy Pelosi came out in the end

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Speaker 2: and still the Democrats to stop talking about it until

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Speaker 2: at least after the NATO so much has ended, so

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Speaker 2: I suspect things to get a bit messy here once

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Speaker 2: NATO was finished and Joe Biden's no longer being made

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Speaker 2: a fool of in front of all these world leaders.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty much. It's pretty much conversation. But it's just

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Speaker 2: kind of if we were like there will be all

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Speaker 2: of them are being asked about Biden. Even in that

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Speaker 2: Indo Pacific Foe meeting, we weren't allowed to ask any questions,

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Speaker 2: but of course, you know, if someone inevitably does. And

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Speaker 2: one of the Australian journalists yelled out to Zelenski, asked

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Speaker 2: him whether he thought Joe Biden should step down as

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Speaker 2: the as the candidate. So that's the only question that

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Speaker 2: got yelled out, And you.

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Speaker 1: Can always you can always expect that from an Aussie,

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Speaker 1: you know that just ruthless. Hey, hey, this presser where

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Speaker 1: it could all come undone. So this is Biden going

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Speaker 1: on his own to a pressa after NATO. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be nine to thirty New Zealand time, so just

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Speaker 1: after we are off here, it'll be during Carrey's show

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Speaker 1: here on Newstalks. He b but do you get to

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Speaker 1: go to that?

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Speaker 2: I actually think we may have to be on our

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Speaker 2: way to the airport, so we're kind of hoping we will.

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Speaker 2: But everything's running a bit late here as well, so

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Speaker 2: it could get it could get crunched out, but we're

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Speaker 2: not sure. One other conflicting thing is that, you know,

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Speaker 2: christ Luckson's been trying to get a meeting with Ted

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Speaker 2: Cruz the whole time he's been here, and it's been

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Speaker 2: delayed twice. One last chance this morning, just before he

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Speaker 2: goes to the plane. So right, so yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure whether whether or not we'll get to say that.

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Speaker 2: We're hoping to clear.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that. That's Trevette, who is

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Speaker 1: The New Zealand Herald's political editor with us live from Washington,

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