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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Vans and a play.

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Speaker 2: A store US Dogs.

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Speaker 3: It'd be good morning, Welcome the Tuesday, the twentieth of August.

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Speaker 3: Great to have your company. Nine two nine two is

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Speaker 3: the number to text this morning. Coming up on the program,

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Speaker 3: What is the worst time today to call an ambulance?

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Speaker 3: We've got the union on. They'll tell us the strike's

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Speaker 3: going on or it withdrawal as of labor is what

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Speaker 3: United States. The Democratic National Convention is happening. Crime is

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Speaker 3: down in Aucklands CBD. But do we believe the stats?

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Speaker 3: Vibeck is on the show and on in tomaow is

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Speaker 3: out of the US, sorry, out of Australia. At seven

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Speaker 3: after five the agenda, Tuesday, the twentieth August. One person

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Speaker 3: and twelve passengers were on board. The British flagged basin

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Speaker 3: Fifteen people in so and so incredible story. Why just

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Speaker 3: about that in a second. To the UK, more UK

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Speaker 3: rioters are being sentenced and the government has made emergency

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Speaker 3: Across England and Wales, there's room for eighty nine thousand

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Speaker 3: prisoners currently there are eighty eight back here. Seek job

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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 Smith City, New Zealand's furniture

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Speaker 3: Just gone nine after five. This poll out last night

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Speaker 3: Thirteen after five, quick update on the situation in Ukraine,

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Speaker 5: Oh, we definitely see improvement. I think the big thing

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Speaker 5: That is the social side which really does still need

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Speaker 3: Zidby twenty one after five on your Tuesday morning. A

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Speaker 3: It has just gone twenty seven to five. So ever

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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 3: Twenty four away from six new Salk ZB We're light

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Speaker 3: at the DNC in Chicago just before six this morning.

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Speaker 3: Find out who's speaking. Biden's going to talk, Barack Obama

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Speaker 3: just before six this morning. Jokes, anyone got any good jokes?

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Speaker 3: I wanted to know which came first, the chicken or

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Speaker 3: The conspiracy theory about the moon being made of cheese

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Speaker 3: Deck Witty, and another here says you should be playing

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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, and we're going to Callen Proctor who's in Dunedin.

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Speaker 3: As we check in with our reporters around the country.

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Speaker 3: Calum calls for more caution when crossing coastal bars.

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Speaker 4: Morning, Ryan, Ye, this is from Water Safety in New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: They're urging skipper is here to take more responsibility following

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Speaker 4: He says coastal bars are unpredictable and are often character

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Speaker 4: And whether today come fine for janed and the chance

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Speaker 3: Fresh wessel is and eleven the height got any good jokes?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Those ones that you've told so far are the flashes?

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Speaker 3: No, it's pretty disappointing, isn't it? Clear than christ Church? Thanks,

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Speaker 7: Far too early for joking, Ryan, Look. Yes, the device

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Speaker 7: likely for his venture the Grand he'll lose his home

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Speaker 7: as a result of that business. Canterbury Chief executively Anne

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Speaker 3: Thank you clear, how's the weather.

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Speaker 3: Thank you MX Tollers and Wellington this morning. Max a

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Speaker 9: It was an Auckland councilor says a fatal shooting in

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Speaker 9: are worried in Parkodrang Counselor Marris Williamson says, twenty years

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Speaker 3: You've got any good jokes?

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Speaker 9: Do you know? I heard you talking about jokes and

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Speaker 3: Well you tell dirty jokes? Somebody's just somebody's Do you

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Speaker 3: I guess you're.

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Speaker 9: Coming out now you've opened the floodgates.

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Speaker 3: What's your dad joke on that way?

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Speaker 9: It's so bad, that's something about what would you call

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Speaker 9: will ease and we've got a higher four ten degrees.

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Speaker 3: Today, Thank you, Wendy. It seventeen away.

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Speaker 1: From six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace

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Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 3: It is quartered to six on Newstalk ZB We're live

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Speaker 3: to the DNC the Democrats convention in Chicago in just

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Speaker 3: a second. Right now, though Donald demands with us our

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Speaker 3: Australia correspondent tell us about this deal that's been reached.

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Speaker 3: This is the corruption and the biking infiltration into the

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Speaker 3: union there.

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Speaker 10: Well, this is a significant deal and it has been

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Speaker 10: reached between the major parties. The CFMAU is to be

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Speaker 10: forced into administration because these new laws will be supported

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Speaker 10: by both the Labor government and the coalition. Effectively, it

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Speaker 10: means the laws allow them federal government to take over

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Speaker 10: control of this troubled construction union. It was reached after

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Speaker 10: amendments were made. For instance, the administrator can be grilled

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Speaker 10: every six months in Parliament. Now this term all erupted

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Speaker 10: after what you mentioned, these allegations that outlaw biking gangs

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Speaker 10: had infiltrated this major union, some of its branches, even

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Speaker 10: bikis allegedly appointed as delegates on major projects. There were

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Speaker 10: claims of bullying, intimidation, corrupt conduct. We now know that

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Speaker 10: after this bill was reached there will pois. Minister Murray

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Speaker 10: Watt has had to step up his security detail both

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Speaker 10: on the road and at home. The Construction Union says

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Speaker 10: it's planning to fight back and says these allegations remain

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Speaker 10: untested in the legal system.

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Speaker 3: Goodness May, are they worried about the biking gangs getting.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: All I know is that we have had a confirm

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Speaker 10: through the ABC that his security detail has been increased.

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Speaker 3: Goodness May all right, Hey, yeah, tell us about this

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Speaker 3: Foxtael boss and the Nazi salute, an old Nazi salute.

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Speaker 2: I should say, yes, it's.

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Speaker 10: A photographer that has surfered surface that it was taken

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Speaker 10: about ten years ago. But Foxtel TV is a News

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Speaker 10: Corp owned streaming television company and look in a way

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Speaker 10: it is a strife because it's boss. Patrick Delaney has

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Speaker 10: had to apologize this photo surface. It shows him and

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Speaker 10: as he put it, it's the similarity he was trying

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Speaker 10: to show. Sorry, the similarity between a gesture I e.

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Speaker 10: The Nazi salute and one used by some fans of

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Speaker 10: a Western Sydney soccer club. And now that photo was taken,

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Speaker 10: it's now surface and he's had to apologize. In his words,

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Speaker 10: he is very sorry. He put the apology in an

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Speaker 10: email to staff, an internal email, and he wrote that

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Speaker 10: regardless of the context, the fact that he demonstrated this

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Speaker 10: is offensive, and he called the salute offensive and it

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Speaker 10: was wrong. But he says that he was impersonating a

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Speaker 10: threatening gesture made by a group of sport fans and

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Speaker 10: the photo is completely inconsistent with his values, beliefs and

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Speaker 10: family collections and connections and condemns racism in all its forms. Now,

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Speaker 10: naturally the Jewish Council of Australia has condemned what they've seen.

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Speaker 10: Let's see if the apology is enough in a see

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Speaker 10: if Patrick Delaney actually keeps his job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean hard to say from a photo,

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Speaker 3: wasn't it because you don't really know what was going

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Speaker 3: It's not like it's a video. But yeah, as you say,

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Speaker 3: I suppose at least he's apologized for that. Donna demo

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Speaker 3: Our Australia correspondent it is twelve minutes away from six,

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Speaker 3: Bryan Bridge, and it is day one of the Democratic

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Speaker 3: National Convention in Chicago. Today. Biden is going to be

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Speaker 3: speaking later on our time. We've got Obama speaking Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton is speaking as well. You've got Waltz on Thursday,

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Speaker 3: and then you've got Harris the main event on Friday,

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Speaker 3: our time. Simon Marx is with Feature Story News is

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Speaker 3: a correspondent. He's at the convention in Chicago and he's

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Speaker 3: with us now. Good morning. Well we'll get there in

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Speaker 3: a second. It's a long way from here to Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Simon.

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Speaker 11: Good morning Ryan. Can you hear me?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 3: I got you just fine? Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 3: What's the main event? What's happening today?

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Speaker 11: Well, they're getting me awkward stuff out of the way

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Speaker 11: here today. We're beginning to see some delegates arriving here

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Speaker 11: at the United Center where this ninety six hour made

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Speaker 11: for TV spectacular will be playing out over the next

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Speaker 11: four days. And of course it's all about swooning over

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Speaker 11: Kamala Harris and propelling her on her less than eighty

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Speaker 11: day journey to elect the day, but to month about

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Speaker 11: swooning over President Joe Biden and paying fulsome tribute to him,

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Speaker 11: not least for his decision to drop out of his

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Speaker 11: re election campaign. So President Biden will be the main

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Speaker 11: speaker on the first night here, alongside First Lady Jill

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Speaker 11: Biden and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. In many ways,

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Speaker 11: the Democrats consigning some of the more uncomfortable moments of

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Speaker 11: this convention to the first night in order to get

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Speaker 11: them out of the way, to clear the decks, so

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Speaker 11: that Kamala Harris can then pivot away from her ongoing

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Speaker 11: need at the moment a tribute to Joe Biden and

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Speaker 11: to focus instead on the direction that she wants to

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Speaker 11: take this party, not just between now an election day,

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Speaker 11: but of course over the next four years if she wins.

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Speaker 3: Four weeks since Spiden pulled out of the right, two

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Speaker 3: weeks since Harris officially won the nomination through that role, call,

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Speaker 3: does is she going to given in? Have you has she?

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Speaker 3: Do you know? Have you heard whether she's doing a

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Speaker 3: one on one with anybody around the convention or is

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Speaker 3: there a press conference.

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Speaker 11: There's no indication of an interview or a press conference.

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Speaker 11: They certainly haven't announced that yet. And as you know,

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Speaker 11: she's been heavily criticized by former President Donald Trump for

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Speaker 11: her failure to give interviews. But I think that the

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Speaker 11: Harris team, you know, they've been thrust into this unexpectedly

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Speaker 11: behind the scenes, they're trying to figure out what all

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Speaker 11: of this means in terms of the party's platform. It's manifesto,

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Speaker 11: which will be officially adopted here because they've basically inherited

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Speaker 11: Joe Biden's manifesto. And you've got tens of thousands of

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Speaker 11: protesters airing down or threatening to bear down on the

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Speaker 11: convention site saying they want the platform to be rewritten

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Speaker 11: certainly as far as the Middle East is concerned and

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Speaker 11: the crisis in Gaza, and she wants this to go

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Speaker 11: absolutely flawlessly over the next four days. There is a

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Speaker 11: margin for error for her. She's had a huge fillip

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Speaker 11: here in the last couple of hours. A fresh Fox

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Speaker 11: News poll suggests that she has a six point lead

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Speaker 11: over Donald Trump among likely voters. And she'll be hoping

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Speaker 11: to get a big bump out of this convention when

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Speaker 11: it is over cementing that lead in place, and then

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Speaker 11: perhaps they will get to interviews, a forum in which

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Speaker 11: she has not always excelled in the past.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, isn't it. Simon Thanks for that, Simon Marx if

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Speaker 3: it's in correspondent at the DNC in Chicago which kicks

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Speaker 3: off today and Bridge Rich eight minutes away from six

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Speaker 3: very quickly Mercury have their annual results out at eight

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Speaker 3: thirty this morning. I'm sure Mike will get to some

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Speaker 3: of the later on. You might have seen that the

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Speaker 3: Contact Energy result came out yesterday net profit two hundred

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Speaker 3: and thirty five million bucks, up from two hundred and eleven. Interestingly,

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Speaker 3: Contact not so affected by this spike in the electricity

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Speaker 3: price on the spot market that we have seen in

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Speaker 3: exposed to that. And an interesting story in the Herald

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Speaker 3: this morning which I employ you to go and read

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Speaker 3: from Cape McNamara about Methnex to the Rescue again, this

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Speaker 3: time for a government gas supply contract basically to keep

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Speaker 3: the lights on at our schools and hospitals, et cetera,

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Speaker 3: was due to run out end of September. Our Methnex

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Speaker 3: to the Rescue from October.

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Speaker 2: The first the.

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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis

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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be.

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Speaker 3: Five away from six on news Talk said, the DNC

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Speaker 3: happening in Chicago this week? Will you be watching this

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Speaker 3: mic as much?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: No, I do. I do.

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Speaker 12: The funny thing I was thinking yesterday is that if

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Speaker 12: you think about the Republican thing, it went fantastically. Forget

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Speaker 12: the politics of it all that as far as the

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Speaker 12: convention went, it was to time.

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Speaker 3: Every day.

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Speaker 12: They had great speeches, the crewdible whipped into a frenzy,

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Speaker 12: and yet ultimately it meant nothing. I don't think about it.

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Speaker 12: You think about it now and go back a couple

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Speaker 12: of weeks. They were fizzing, they were set to go,

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Speaker 12: the race was over, it was all on. So unless

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Speaker 12: you basically cock it up, then it doesn't count for much.

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Speaker 12: So it's designed to whip the party into a bit

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Speaker 12: of a fizz.

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Speaker 3: Because some reckon that she'll get a honeymoon on top

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Speaker 3: of a honeymoon from the convention. But it's crazy, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Five weeks ago the shooting happened. It's right. Four weeks

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Speaker 3: ago Biden pulled out here we are today in the race,

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Speaker 3: it is completely different.

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Speaker 12: And that's the thing. I mean, when the day that

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Speaker 12: Trump got shot, that was the end of the race.

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Speaker 3: Apparently it was all over. It was his to loose.

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Speaker 12: And now it's anybody's race. And so that's not to

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Speaker 12: say that in the next couple of weeks it's going

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Speaker 12: to twist again. And that's why you shouldn't be going, Oh,

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Speaker 12: I know, she get all the momentum. She's home free.

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Speaker 12: No one's home free. And so I'm so yes, is

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Speaker 12: the answer to the question. And not only will I

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Speaker 12: be watching, we'll be having some people on to talk

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Speaker 12: about it, and Prime Minister in today. By the way,

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Speaker 12: rainy old day on the Mariah long way to go

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Speaker 12: to be insulted all day, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: But the polls are shining on him.

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Speaker 12: They are shining on they're shining on him, they're shining

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Speaker 12: ish on the government. And so he's got some good

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Speaker 12: numbers to back him up. He'll be and the economy

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Speaker 12: I think is probably turning a wee bit too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that'll help him for the next one. Mike,

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Speaker 3: cost me with you next. That's it from me for today.

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Speaker 3: I'll see tomorrow.

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