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Speaker 2: Oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday,

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Speaker 3: the thirty first of May.

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Speaker 2: I'm Zara, I'm Sam.

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Speaker 3: It's been a big couple of weeks for Donald Trump,

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Speaker 3: whose first criminal case has just wrapped up after a

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Speaker 3: five week trial. The trial centered on Trump's alleged cover

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Speaker 3: up of a hush money payment to adult film star

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Speaker 3: Stormy Daniels in the run up to the twenty sixteen election.

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Speaker 3: In today's part that we are going to cover off

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Speaker 3: on the trial itself, how it came to be, and

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Speaker 3: what it means for the presidential hopeful. But first, Sam,

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Speaker 3: what's making headlines.

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Speaker 2: A parliamentary committee has recommended the federal government establish Australia's

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Speaker 2: first ever Human Rights Act. Committee chair Labour MP Josh

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Speaker 2: Burns said it would require Parliament to expressly consider human

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Speaker 2: rights when making laws. The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes

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Speaker 2: the recommendations, saying people's rights and well being should be

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Speaker 2: front of mind when laws are formulated. The President of

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Speaker 2: the AHRC described Australia's current framework as quote outdated, ineffective

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Speaker 2: and in desperate need of reform.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen pro democracy advocates in Hong Kong have been found

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Speaker 3: guilty of what's called subversion, which is risking national security

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Speaker 3: under a China imposed security law. There is an Australian

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Speaker 3: dual citizen who is among those who was found guilty.

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Speaker 3: Sentencing is expected to come at a later date, where

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Speaker 3: those found guilty could face between three years and a

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Speaker 3: lifetime in prison. The guilty rulings come after forty seven

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Speaker 2: Victoria police have arrested four men for allegedly recruiting children

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Speaker 2: as young as twelve to steal more than two million

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Speaker 2: twenty children were allegedly involved in over one hundred and

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Speaker 2: nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash, luxury

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Speaker 2: items and weapons enacting inspector said, quote concerningly, a significant

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Speaker 3: In today's good news, Vahine Fierro has become the first

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Speaker 3: Tahitian woman to win a famous surfing competition in Tahiti.

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Speaker 3: She was awarded the title of twenty twenty four Tahiti Pro.

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Speaker 3: The World Surf League said that this will quote go

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Speaker 3: at the Paris Olympics, where as surfing events will be

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Speaker 3: held on the French island. Donald Trump has been found

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Speaker 3: guilty by a jury after a crimminal trial that lasted

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Speaker 3: five weeks. Hearings in former US president Donald Trump's first

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Speaker 3: criminal trial have finally wrapped up after five weeks in

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Speaker 3: a US court.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it now.

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Speaker 3: The trial did center on Trump's alleged cover up of

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Speaker 3: a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels,

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Speaker 3: and that was in the lead up to the twenty

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Speaker 3: sixteen presidential election. Now, over the course of the trial,

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Speaker 3: we heard from more than twenty witnesses, or rather the

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Speaker 2: But he does have a couple of cases on the

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Speaker 2: facing what charges. This one is really significant because of

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Speaker 2: that criminal element. Run me through the basics of the case.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, during his twenty sixteen presidential election campaign, Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump arranged for an one hundred and thirty thousand US

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Speaker 3: dollar payment to be made to adult film star Stormy Daniels,

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Speaker 3: that's about two hundred K, who claims to have had

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Speaker 3: sex with him a decade earlier. Now, Trump instructed his

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Speaker 3: then lawyer, Michael Cohen, and we'll speak about him a

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court. Here's how the former president saw the case himself.

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Speaker 2: This is all.

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Speaker 3: Election hunting, elected interfering.

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Speaker 1: It's going after Joe Biden's political opponent because he can't

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Speaker 1: Ye stars confliction. It st worst than anybody's seen. Nobody

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Speaker 2: Okay, So unsurprisingly, Donald Trump has quite a clear and

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Speaker 2: strong sense of how he feels about this case. Talk

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Speaker 2: me through what actually happens though through the trial.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, as with any trial, there are ups

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Speaker 3: actually being fined. So during this trial, Trump violated a

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Speaker 3: Trump also posted about the trial on his social media

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Speaker 3: and this led him being found in contempt of court twice.

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Speaker 3: So he was find a total of ten thousand US

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Speaker 3: a fairly expensive experience for Donald Trump when we haven't

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Speaker 2: And I want to turn nowt to who we heard

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Speaker 2: Stormy Daniels herself. She's at the center of this story, right.

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Speaker 3: She is so. Stormy Daniels herself appeared in the witness

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Speaker 3: Trump at a US resort back in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 3: It is important to note here that Trump denies ever

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Speaker 3: having had sex with Daniels after Daniels's testimony, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not really going to go into it. It's fairly sallacious,

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Speaker 3: and you've told me things that I want to unhear

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Speaker 3: fair enough, but the justice in the case said that

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Speaker 3: some of the evidence that she gave would have probably

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the Netflix series about this case.

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Speaker 2: Who else did we hear from, though.

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Speaker 3: Well, the other star witness was Trump's ex lawyer Michael Cohen,

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Speaker 3: who I mentioned earlier, who admitted to organizing the payments

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Speaker 2: So it seems like Michael Cohen is another one of

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Speaker 2: against him. But it feels like every day with this case,

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Speaker 2: there was just more salacious detail. When the two sides

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Trump, who in this case is the defendant,

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Speaker 2: He didn't have to, right, No.

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Speaker 3: So his lawyers called just two witnesses to the stand

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Speaker 3: Trump's lawyers tried to discredit Michael Cohen. They called him

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Speaker 3: the gloat which is the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Liar of all time, might borrow that one honestly love it,

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Speaker 3: The prosecution's closing argument lasted over five hours and saw

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Speaker 3: me Daniels's lawyers accused Trump of overseeing a conspiracy and

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Speaker 2: And I'm keen to talk about the impact of all

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Speaker 2: videos online of Robert de Niro. The aptor outside court

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Speaker 3: This is one of those interesting things where we're trying

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Speaker 3: over my TikTok for example. So Robert de Niro and

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Speaker 3: called him a tyrant and a danger to the lives

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Speaker 3: He got into a bit of a tussle with some

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Speaker 3: They don't see Ada Ei though, that is for sure.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, that's why Robert de Niro is somehow involved

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