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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily os. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of February. My name is Sam Kozlowski,

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Speaker 1: and helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sidler.

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Speaker 1: Making news today increases to job seeker, Minister Reynolds on leave,

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Speaker 1: some good news about the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: And a chat about where we are on the Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill riots.

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Speaker 1: Here's today's daily Digest.

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Speaker 2: So, Federal Defense Minister Linda Reynolds has been admitted to

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Speaker 2: hospital relating to a pre existing medical condition. Minister Reynolds

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Speaker 2: was due to speak at the National Press Club yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the same day as Britney Higgins gave her formal statement

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Speaker 2: to the AFP on her alleged rape that she says

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Speaker 2: happened in Minister Reynolds's office. Brittney Higgins wished Minister Reynolds

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Speaker 2: all the best with her recovery.

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Speaker 1: The mother of Ahmad Aarbury, the twenty five year old

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Speaker 1: black man who was shot and killed last year, has

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Speaker 1: filed a civil lawsuit against several people involved in the

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Speaker 1: killing and the subsequent investigation. This was one of the

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Speaker 1: main focal points of the Black Lives Matter movement from

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Speaker 1: last year. The suit says the men wilfully and maliciously

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Speaker 1: conspired to follow, threaten, detain, and kill Ahmad Arbery.

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk has seemingly lost more money in one day

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Speaker 2: than most of us will ever earn in our lifetimes.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday he lost nineteen billion dollars in just a

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Speaker 2: single day after Tesla sches slid eight point six percent.

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Speaker 2: The share place slid because of Tesla's reliance on bitcoin,

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Speaker 2: which also tumbled, and we did an explainer on this

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. It's thought a tweet by

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Speaker 2: Musk himself sent the bitcoin prices crashing. He tweeted that

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Speaker 2: the price of bitcoin and ethereum, the world's two largest cryptocurrencies,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm quoting him seems high loll. The hit

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Speaker 2: to Musk's personal wealth means that, at least for today,

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Speaker 2: he is no longer the world's richest person.

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Speaker 1: And the good news is that Australia is a step

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Speaker 1: closer to hosting the twenty thirty two Olympic Games after

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Speaker 1: Brisbane became the International Olympic Committee's preferred candidate yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: International Olympic Committee is expected to announce this morning that

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Speaker 1: Brisbane is the sole bid city chosen for exclusive negotiations.

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Speaker 2: Sam has been waiting a very long time to talk

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Speaker 2: about the Olympics, so what a win. The big story today, however,

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Speaker 2: is that there's currently an inquiry into the Capitol Hill

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Speaker 2: riots happening before Congress. At the moment they're listening to

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Speaker 2: the testimony of Capital security officials and the chief of

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Speaker 2: the Washington DC Police. We thought this would be a

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Speaker 2: good opportunity to take stock of where we're at with

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Speaker 2: this story and circle back on a few aspects of

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Speaker 2: the Capitol Hill riots you might have forgotten about.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with what happened in Washington, DC yesterday.

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Speaker 1: In the testimonies from security officials, they've largely blamed federal

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Speaker 1: law enforcement and the Defense Department for intelligence failures. So

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Speaker 1: what this means in real terms is that when they

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Speaker 1: called for help from the National Guard, help didn't come

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Speaker 1: fast enough, and they are now blaming intelligence officials as

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Speaker 1: well for not adequately picking up the online signs that

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Speaker 1: the riot was being planned at all. There's two key

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Speaker 1: themes here, communication failure and a failure in command structures,

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Speaker 1: and that meant that the potential of a riot turned

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Speaker 1: into one of the darkest days in American modern history.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so here are some specifics to get your head around.

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Speaker 2: Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund told senators he did not

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Speaker 2: see an FBI warning of potential violence on the eve

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Speaker 2: of the riots, and the acting Washington DC Police chiefs

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Speaker 2: said he received the information but that it wasn't made

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Speaker 2: clear to him how serious the situation was. This is

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Speaker 2: just the tip of the evidence, Iceberg. The current inquiry

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Speaker 2: is the first major public inquiry into the events of

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Speaker 2: that day, and we expect there to be many, many

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Speaker 2: more lines of inquiry fleshed out in Washington over time.

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Speaker 1: And here's what we know about those who've been arrested

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Speaker 1: for their role in the riots. There's been more than

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty arrests. Even just today, a man

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Speaker 1: was arrested in New York City and three men were

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Speaker 1: arrested in Kentucky. American Public Radio Station and PR has

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Speaker 1: found thirty five of those arrested have ties to the

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Speaker 1: US military, and forty seven of those arrested have no

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Speaker 1: own ties to right wing extremist groups.

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Speaker 2: And because there's so much evidence, it's going to take

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of time for prosecutors to prepare everything

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Speaker 2: for two hundred and fifty trials. But the message from

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden's new Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland is abundantly

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Speaker 2: clear the capital riot is the top priority. Separately, former

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action

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Speaker 2: Conference over the weekend. It'll be his first public remarks

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Speaker 2: since leaving office. We'll be listening keenly to hear what

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Speaker 2: he has to say and bring anything important straight to

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Speaker 2: your ears.

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Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today, but in the meantime,

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