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Speaker 1: With US.

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Speaker 2: Now is Dan Mitchinson now US correspondent. Hi Dan, Hello Heather,

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday to you mate.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Is it actually your birthday?

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Speaker 1: Well, it is in New Zealand, it will be in

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Speaker 1: a few hours here in the States.

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Speaker 2: I see what you're doing. So you're doing you're double

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Speaker 2: dipping on your birthday.

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Speaker 1: I am I would be.

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Speaker 2: True if I had that option. Now, what do you

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Speaker 2: make of Donald Trump extending the deadline?

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Speaker 1: I think it's just another chance for him to hope

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Speaker 1: that negotiators will come to the table right now. I

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Speaker 1: think he's seen what's happening to the market, the stock

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Speaker 1: market over here. There's a lot of concern right now.

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Speaker 1: The market's spent tanking. He says, the talks are on

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Speaker 1: going over there. He's insisted that it's up to Iranian

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Speaker 1: leaders to convince him to stop the war. Says, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't care about making a deal. But meanwhile, the

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Speaker 1: state media over there is saying that they have a

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Speaker 1: big doubt about what Ington's willingness to negotiate. So who

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Speaker 1: do you believe. Do you believe that Trump says we're

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Speaker 1: getting closer, or do you believe Iran and them saying that, no,

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Speaker 1: we haven't really talked and we're not willing to come

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Speaker 1: to the table at this point.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, neither of them are known to be,

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Speaker 2: you know, particularly good on the fact. Do we have

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Speaker 2: any idea as to whether they are actually at around

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Speaker 2: the table at all, because they clearly is. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's quite clear that there is some form of talk

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Speaker 2: going on. It's just the extent to where they're at

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Speaker 2: at the moment. Where are they at?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think both are talking. I think both

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Speaker 1: are putting out feelers at this point in time. But

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot as we saw in that

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Speaker 1: fifteen point plan earlier in the week, when they just said,

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Speaker 1: oh no, we're not ready to do this or we're

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Speaker 1: not going to do this. I'm sure that the US

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Speaker 1: is now saying, okay, here's plan B. What if we

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Speaker 1: were to do this, this and this, and you know,

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Speaker 1: with oil prices shooting up over here right now, gasoline

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Speaker 1: prices are topping six dollars on the West Coast, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's concern that this is going to drag on, and

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Speaker 1: this is effect. This is more than just headlines on

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Speaker 1: the news and something that's happening thousands of mile was await,

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Speaker 1: this is this is impacting me, This is impacting everybody

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Speaker 1: else too, with our in our wallets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah quite right, Okay, So what is causing all these

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Speaker 2: problems that you guys have got at the airports?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's what's going on is the TSAs and

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Speaker 1: not paying them, although the President has come out today

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Speaker 1: and said, you know what, we are going to pay

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Speaker 1: the Transportation Security Administration people. They were getting the longest

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Speaker 1: wait times ever in the twenty fourth history. There wait

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Speaker 1: times at airports are exceeding four hours. We spoke with

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Speaker 1: one person earlier, I believe it was today, that had

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Speaker 1: arrived at three point thirty in the morning, her flight

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Speaker 1: left at six thirty. She didn't get through customs till

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Speaker 1: seven thirty. And she said that people were there before

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Speaker 1: her that didn't have a flight till eleven thirty that morning.

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Speaker 1: So some people are showing up, you know, eight nine,

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Speaker 1: ten hours ahead of time. And there's been a five

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Speaker 1: hundred percent increase in assaults against these officers. And I

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Speaker 1: got to tell you, Hoather, they don't make much. They

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Speaker 1: make eighteen maybe twenty bucks an hour based on some

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Speaker 1: of the job ads that I've seen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, jeez, that's a bit rough. Tell me about the

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Speaker 2: fact tex what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy. This is Southwest Airlines, which is probably the

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Speaker 1: most popular domestic airline that we have over here for

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Speaker 1: you know, discounts. They are singling out people that are

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Speaker 1: overweight and they are forcing them to buy another seat

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Speaker 1: to accommodate that, something that they've never had to do before.

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Speaker 1: There are a number of videos online from passengers and

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Speaker 1: customers who are who are showing this right now. There's

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Speaker 1: been a number of investigations into this, and what the

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Speaker 1: airline is saying is that customers who encroach upon the

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Speaker 1: neighboring seats will have to buy the number of seats

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Speaker 1: needed and the arm rest is considered to be the

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Speaker 1: definitive boundary. And they said, you know, we're going to

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Speaker 1: take a look at this. It's in our policy. It

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Speaker 1: states this, and there may be somebody that comes along,

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Speaker 1: a flight attendant or the captain, and it will be

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Speaker 1: their discretion to say, you know what, you're going to

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Speaker 1: have to buy another seat or you can't fly with us.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to be the person who has to go

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Speaker 2: and deliver that bad news. Oh yeah, Thank you, Dan,

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Speaker 2: and happy birthday for tomorrow and enjoy it. Dan Mitchison,

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