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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, jan Us Torrest Fund and Hello Dan,

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Speaker 1: Hey Heather, So what was Donald Trump doing on the

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Speaker 1: roof of the White House? I couldn't quite figure that out. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what everybody was trying to figure out. He took

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Speaker 1: a twenty minute stroll up there, and all the reporters

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Speaker 1: were kind of kept at a distance, so everybody was

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Speaker 1: yelling at him, what are you doing up there? And

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Speaker 1: he said, just taking a little walk. And then another

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Speaker 1: reporter said, well, what are you building? And he says,

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Speaker 1: it goes with a ballroom, and so this went back

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Speaker 1: and forth, and finally he said. One reporter said what

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Speaker 1: are you trying to build? And he said missiles, and

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Speaker 1: we presume he was joking. He said nuclear missiles while

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Speaker 1: he made a gesture of a rocket launching, which which unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: is that the one that looked like a Nazi salute? Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's the picture that came up. So he

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Speaker 1: was kind of going up there like that, and unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: well or for you know, photographers taking the moment to

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Speaker 1: capture that sort of one picture, and that's the one

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Speaker 1: they got and that's the one that's making the rounds. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: listen to all of us. Don't imitate a rocket going

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Speaker 1: up in the air, because next minute you're a fascist. Yes,

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Speaker 1: what a surprise. Elon Musk is America's most disliked person,

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Speaker 1: isn't it though. A Gallup took this poll and they

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Speaker 1: asked people, you know, what they thought of fourteen well

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Speaker 1: known US and global figures, and sixty one percent had

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Speaker 1: an unfavorable opinion of Musk, So he came out on top,

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Speaker 1: which I mean, I mean, his reputation is kind of

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Speaker 1: plummeted faster than I think Tesla Stock has in recent

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Speaker 1: months too, with everything going on with him in the

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Speaker 1: White House. And there are a number of others that

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Speaker 1: are within the President's orbit I guess that are having

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Speaker 1: negative fallout from these Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy was

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Speaker 1: on that list. JD. Vance was on that list as well,

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Speaker 1: and then you had President Trump, who was further down

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Speaker 1: the list too, basically given the same rating as a

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So the poll numbers for

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Speaker 1: the President have not been looking good, and not just

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Speaker 1: from Gallup but from a number of different people doing

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Speaker 1: these polls. Interesting, So the CEO is the problem for

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Speaker 1: the submersible blowing up? Yeah, the Titan, And what they're

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Speaker 1: seeing is that the Coast Guard came out with a

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Speaker 1: report today and said there was also a lot of

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Speaker 1: financial pressure that began a couple of years back, so

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Speaker 1: employees were asked to forego their salaries, and among them,

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Speaker 1: they were saying that they started bringing in contractors rather

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Speaker 1: than full time skilled people, and they decided to use

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Speaker 1: text based communication, which I guess isn't as good as

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Speaker 1: sort of voice communication. So the bottom line, they're saying

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Speaker 1: that it was an inadequate design, maintenance, inspection process, and

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Speaker 1: basically there was also this toxic workplace culture which which

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Speaker 1: kept people from coming up and speaking out about what

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Speaker 1: was going on. Dan, good to talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. It's Dan Mitchison, US correspondent. For more

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