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Speaker 3: We're gonna keep it.

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Speaker 4: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with

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Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, So nice to have you with us

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Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one

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Speaker 3: big story for you. Donald Trump breaking the United Nations.

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Speaker 3: They're now begging for money and angry at the United

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump do it? And what does this mean? Explain

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Speaker 3: it all to you. It's a forty seven Morning Update,

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: The United Nations is in theory going broke and needs

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Speaker 3: imminent financial collapse quote unquote due to member states not

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Speaker 3: out as soon as July, leaving the unaccountable globalist society destitute.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound amazing?

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Speaker 3: By the way, Such is the financial drama unfolding at

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Speaker 3: all one hundred and ninety three member states, outlining his

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Speaker 3: it comes after the UN's largest contributor, wait, wait for it,

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Speaker 3: drum roll please, you guessed it, the United States of

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Speaker 3: America refuse to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budget

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Speaker 3: Trump for this. These include the UN's Population Agency and

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Speaker 1: As the AP reported it.

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Speaker 3: As well, the US also intends to exit dozens of

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Speaker 3: One person put on social media question, what do you

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Speaker 3: call Don Trump defunding sixty six globalists anti American organizations

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Speaker 1: Answer?

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Speaker 3: A good start. By the way, I couldn't agree more

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Speaker 3: de Gutia has said a rule that the UN must

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Speaker 3: give it back if it's not used, where'd it go,

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Speaker 3: mister EWN Secretary General. I'm asking for I don't know,

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Speaker 3: I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face.

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Speaker 3: We cannot execute budgets with uncollected funds nor return funds.

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Speaker 3: We never reset now. The US is the UN's largest contributor.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump has said it was not fulfilling its great potential,

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Speaker 3: they're pretty much worthless now. In January last year, Trump

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Speaker 3: well something that they're not going to stop any time soon,

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Speaker 3: In fact, I actually believe we should just completely get

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Speaker 3: my opinion, like the bare minimum, just to have a

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Speaker 1: That's all I think. Any of the other crap.

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Speaker 1: That's the reality of the situation, okay. Quote.

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Speaker 3: I don't know this this President Donald Trump. He went

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Speaker 3: in and said, stop it all. Don't just stop a

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, stop it.

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Speaker 3: All, stop every bit of it, stop it all, and

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