June 5, 2025 • 50 mins
This week on Power Hour, Trump issues sweeping travel ban, Karine Jean-Pierre slammed over tell-all deal, Joy Reid roasted for “absurd” remarks, Dems’ taco stunt backfires, expert breaks down Diddy trial, and Meghan’s odd chat with Beyoncé’s mum.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Power Hour with Gabriella Power.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for your company. We have a massive show coming
up today, but we have to start with Biden's White
House Press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
My goodness, the woman who spent.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Years lying to the American people completely complicit in the
big operation attempting to cover up Biden's decline, now claims
that she doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
To be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
She's suddenly an independent and is coming out with a
tell all book, Independent, a look inside a broken White
House outside the party lines. I'm not sure who is
going to be forking out for this, but let's just
take a quick look back on the role she played
as White House Press secretary.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The gas lighting was on another level.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
He is the sharpest because ever as I have known
him to be in my engagement and my experience with.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Him, how many times are we told that?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And remember when she tried to pretend the videos of
Biden looking increasingly terrible with cheap fakes and disinformation.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
There seems to be a sort of rash of videos
that have been exitted to make the President appear especially
frail or mentally confused.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'm wondering if the White.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Houses especially worried about the fact that this this appears
to be a pattern number sing more from.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, and I think you all have called this the
cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are. They
are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad fakes
and in some of your news organization have been very
clear have stressed that these right wing, the weight wing
critics of the president have a credibility problem because of
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the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation disinformation.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And she still pretends that she wasn't part of one
of the biggest political scandals of.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
All time, the Biden cover up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But just like Jake Tapper, who was also part of
that cover up and is still pretending that he wasn't
really and is now profiting from that, Kareem Jean Pierre
has found herself a book deal where this time she'll
apparently be telling you the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And this is my answer, and what I mean by
that is, in an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness
of social policy, what we're seeing currently right now, what
I have decided to do and I really have thought
long and horrid about this is to follow my own compass.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And the pr around this is such a joke, Hatchet
Book Group said, and a press release, Jean Pierre didn't
come to her decision to be an independent lightly.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She takes us through the three weeks that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term
and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to
his decision. In a hard hitting, yet hopeful critique, Jean
Pierre defines what it means to be part of the
growing percentage of our electric that is independent, why it
can be worthwhile to carve a political space more loyal
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to personal beliefs than a party affiliation, and what questions
you need to ask yourself to determine where you fit politically.
I mean, come on, Karine, Jean Pierre has no credibility.
She's likely going to be getting the knives out. She
might name some names in this book and then make
a few dollars, But isn't it interesting that after working
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for Obama and Biden, she's now urging Americans to essentially
follow her and abandon the Democrat Party. Now we will
return back to this story with my guest Adam Crichton
in just a moment, but first it's time for media meltdowns.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, she's back fired.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
MSNBC host joy Reid is speaking out about why the
left wing network dumped her earlier this year. Joy Reid
told Katie Couric that it had nothing to do with
her failing ratings and even worse content, but she raised
concerns that it may have had something to do with
her race and her anxiety around Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
There is a lot of anxiety both there and I
think in every media. We're seeing it at CBS, We're
seeing it at ABC, where allegedly the view hosts were
told not to go so hard on Trump, where there's
a push for people to hey, do less Trump, do
more entertainment, don't be hard on him. Yeah, I vary
that pages there's a fear of him. So I think
there's you know, and obviously I'm but you weren't. I mean,
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let's be honest, you were no different than Nicole or
Rachel Maddow, where only in one way was I different.
I'm a black woman doing the thing, you know what
I mean, And so I'm not different, but I'm different
because in my in terms, I was just talking in
terms of your criticizing of Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, and Joy Reid did not stop there. She was
just getting started claiming that Donald Trump can't have a
criticism coming from her because she's a black woman.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I think that there is a there's a difference for
Trump in hearing the kinds of criticism specifically out of
a black woman. It bothers him in a way. It
doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort
of tick about race, you know, and about you know,
sort of criticism coming specifically from a black woman, because
we've seen him layout and dish out real, you know,
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abuse against black women journalists.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So I think there is.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
And also I did a specific thing, which was I
tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country,
which is very much against the sort of project between
twenty five things. And it's something I can do in
a certain capacity because of my background.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, after the election where she told Americans that
Kamala Harris's campaign was flawless, her show the readout, she
had nearly fifty percent of its total audience, and you
look back at her work on MSNBC and you wonder
why that is.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
We've Reid out the stakes in this crucial election where
one side stands for freedom while the other meets the
textbook definition of fascism, namely a far right dictatorial regime
like Hitler's Germany or Frankel's Spain or Mussolini's Italy, but
also white ruled South Africa before Mendela and the black
majority to control, or Vladimir Putin's Russia, Victor Orbon's Hungary
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or Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela today.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
How weird that calling your political opponents Nazis repeatedly just
didn't really work out for and you know, it might
have even helped Trump win the election because her commentary
was so disgusting and came at a time where more
and more people were waking up to the bs that
the mainstream media were absolutely pushing. So good riddance to
Drey Reid. Well done to MSNBC for getting rid of
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her earlier this year. But sadly, MSNBC's coverage is still
pretty awful, its hosts us still suffering from severe TDS,
and its new lineup is failing. Its ratings have dropped
forty one percent in prime time since Jen Saki took
over full time hosting and what about over at CNN?
Is that where the audience is going? Apparently not. According
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to Nielsen Media Research data, CNN finished with its worst
week of the year. Joining US now is chief economist
at the Institute of Public Affairs, Adam Crichton. Adam, great
to see you, and we have to talk about Karine
Jean Pierre in a moment. But first, someone who's somehow
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even worse in my opinion ex MSNBC host Droy Reid.
She's now speculating that she may have been fired because
of her race and because of her anxiety around Donald Trump.
Doesn't really surprise me hearing that type of commentary coming
from her. But what's your reaction to this?
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Well, look, I mean I've spent a few years watching
cable news in the US and Joy Reid was the
most hysterical far left race baiting broadcaster that I've ever seen.
I mean, it's actually shocking by Australian standards, and her
ratings were tanking.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean, the notion that she was sacked for her
race is just absurd.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
I mean, she constantly lost her slot, she's paid, she
was paid millions of dollars a year, so she clearly
wasn't worth it, and she's furious. I mean her her
style of politics, her style of rhetoric.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Clearly didn't work.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
But she was ranting away for years and then there
was a huge swing to Trump from Black Americans, from
Hispanic Americans. So you know, I think the network was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And they got rid of her. That's the reason. Nothing
to do with.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Race, absolutely well said.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But it's interesting because getting rid of getting rid of
her on MSNBC, it actually hasn't even helped their ratings,
their tanking. So are CNNs at the moment, And I
don't really see a way that they can get their
audience back when so many Americans have just seen them
for what they are. Many of them view their hosts
as just Democrat mouthpieces. I mean, what does the future
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hold for MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Yeah, look, certainly MSNBC was just the propaganda arm of
the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You're quite right.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I mean people criticize Fox News for being right wing,
but they often have alternative voices on Fox News, and
it's a ratings powerhouse. They constantly when they're slots. Sometimes
their ratings are higher than c and MSNBC. Put together,
so it's you know, it's a crisis for those other
two networks. But as I said, you know they're ranting
and raving against Trump. You know, they had massive TDS
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and it didn't work. So I think there's a lot
of embarrassment, and I think the audience is embarrassed too,
because they were lapping all of this up, thinking that Biden.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Was going to win, that Harris was going to win,
and you know she was thrashed.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
So I mean, I think they've switched off just out
of embarrassment. Partly, I think they're going to have to
become more centrist those networks and try to compete with Fox,
which despite all the rhetoric against it, I think is
pretty middle ground, pretty central.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Absolutely, No, I agree with you, Adam. We have to
speak about Karine Jean Pierre. She's now released a tel
all book, Independent, A Look inside a Broken White House
Outside the party lines. This is what she said earlier
in the year, claiming that she wasn't really part of
Biden's cover up and there was a disconnect between her
and the party.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
There was a disconnect from me what was happening with
leadership and the Democratic Party and how it was truly.
As my former colleague, communications director Ben la Bald said,
it was a firing squad and I had never seen
anything like it before.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So what are we going to hear from this book?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do you suspect that she's going to suppose, get the
knives out, maybe name a few people that she's fallen
out with.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Well, look, I certainly won't be buying it, but she'll
probably refer to herself as an historic figure, which she
did once in a newspaper article in the US, which
was somewhat hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Look, she was the worst press secretary of the.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
US has ever had, really for the president, no question,
she was the ultimate diversity of higher I'm sorry to say.
Jensaki was way way better. I don't think. I don't
think that KJP, as she's called, will even get a
TV show because she's just not very talented. Look, they're
all saying this now, Jake Tapper, KJP. They're all saying, oh,
you know, we knew what was going on, but they
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never said anything at the time. I think they're just
trying to save their future careers by making these sorts
of statements.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And making money from it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now and now they do a tell all when it
doesn't matter, when it's too late and they're profiting from it.
But what does it say about the Democrat Party when
you have someone who was kind of the face of it,
who is now encouraging people to essentially walk away and
look at being independent.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, look, I don't know if people will.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
I mean, as you know, the US is so incredibly polarized,
but the Democrat Party is facing an existential crisis. I mean,
it used to thrive by pandering to minorities, but as
I just said earlier, there was a swing to Trump
from all of those minorities.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
So this sort of coalition strategy.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
That they've used for years, it's just not working anymore,
and so they're fumbling around with what to believe in. So,
you know, probably is frustrated with the party because it's
probably going to be out of power, at least in
the White House.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
For quite some time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now, we've been talking about, obviously that the Biden cover up,
and Donald Trump says that the biggest scandal is also
the use of Biden's autopen and using the autopen for
some of those partterns. Now, Trump has ordered Attorney General
pen Bondi to investigate the use of Biden's autopen. The
White House has put out a statement today saying that
the nation is governed through presidential signatures. In recent months,
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it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden's aides
abused the power of presidential signatures through the use of
an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive decline and assert article
to authority. This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous
and concerning scandals in American history, and this is not
going away anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But what can really happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Adam, Well, look, I think that's broadly true.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
I mean, the presidential pardon power is an extremely serious matter,
so you would think the president would actually physically signed
these documents.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But that clearly did not happen.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
With the suite of pardons that happened at the end
of Biden's presidency, I mean, of course, the famous one
being Anthony Fauci, who was pardoned for anything going back
ten years, and there were many other pardons too, And
as you point out, it was exactly the same signature
on all of these pardons, suggesting that Biden did not
even know that he was partying these people. So I
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think there does have to be an inquiry to work
at who, I mean, who on earth was actually governing
the US, especially in those last years of the Biden presidency,
when it was clear for all to see, for the
American public to see that he was in mark decline.
I mean, he could barely string a sentence together. And
you know, people like KJP we just talked about, were
saying the time that everything was fine. So you know,
it is a serious matter, and I think the Trump's
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right to order an investigation of that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Caroline Levertt was asked about the autopen scandal yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Here's the exchange.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Looks different, It looks authentic. In fact, if you look
at the last name, it almost looks like the president
was having a hard time spelling his last name. There
is this White House of the opinion that the only
pardon that would count is one of the presidents signed
and suck.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
It's very interesting, very interesting props. If you want to
bring them to my office later so I can take
a closer a look, I would like to do that.
The President is making a good point when he discusses
the usage of the autopen. Who was running the country
for the past four years.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, It's an interesting question because it's strange that Hunter
Biden's pardon, the person who was never supposed to get
a pardon at all, appears to be one of the
only ones that actually has Biden's hand written signature.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
No, that's right, and look, I'm sure that was the
president's decision himself, despite the fact, as you point out,
the President said many times the former president, I should say,
said many times that he would not pardon his son,
but he did. That was probably the only one that
he was aware of. But yeah, look at his you know,
it's very sad actually because if you take a step
back now, there have been so many pardons this president
has been set Now I think that you'll see at
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the end of every presidency there's going to be, you know,
two dozen pardons of people. And that's not really what
it was set up for.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's extraordinary use of power and you know, preemptive pardons,
you know, Biden, that is part of his legacy.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I want to talk to you about Doze.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
President Trump has officially sent the first nine billion dollar
Doze Recisions package package to Congress. So this is to
gut funding for USAID, PBS, NPR, US Institute for Peace
and other foreign aid programs. But nine billion dollars, you know,
it's no wonder that Elon Musk is pretty disappointed at
the moment. It's not a lot of money in the
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grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
No, look, it's absolutely not.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
I mean, the US revenue every year is something like
seven trillion or no, sorry, five trillion. Spending is seven trillion,
revenue is five trillion. There's an enormous deficit of roughly
two trillion dollars every single year, and so nine billion
dollars in the US context is absolutely nothing. And so
I sympathize with Elon Musk. You know, he spent months
of his time, he sacrificed a lot financially himself to
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help the US government makes savings. And now there's this
bill before Congress which which you know, which he said
is pathetic essentially.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Which which just increases the debt further.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
And so there's this token other bill you've pointed out,
nine billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's a bit of a joke.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Really, So you know, I think we're you know, we're
seeing the beginnings of the fraying of the Trump mask relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I think, for.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Sure, interesting to watch this space as Yeah, I agree
with you that it is disappointing when they were identifying
so much waste and then we're down to nine billion dollars.
But finally, Adam, I want to speak to you about
what is happening here in Australia, and that is federal
spending on climate and that zero policy has surged you
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nine billion dollars a year. So a decade ago it
was six hundred million dollars. Now it's nine billion, and
who knows what that will get to. But what value
are we getting for this money?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Well, look, just firstly, nine billion dollars in the Australian
context is a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You know, it basically would be yes, I mean it
would be.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
The twentieth largest program of the federal government. So I
looked at federal spending on climate change and at zero
and I was just shocked that over ten years it's
increased fifteenfold and about four hundred percent just in the
last few years since Labor was elected.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So this is serious money.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
And you know you ask about value, well, there isn't
much because omissions are actually going up.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They've barely fallen.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Of course, power prices are going up as you know,
so we've got power prices going up and the government
is asking taxpayers for nine billion dollars a year on
renewable this renewable app I mean, it's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Really, it's a fiscal disaster.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
And so when the government says, for instance, oh, we
can't afford to spend more on defense, we'll just remember
that they're spending nine billion dollars a year on all
sorts of boondoggles for a so called climate change.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So it's a huge waste.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Adam Crichton at Chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs,
thank you so much for.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Your time, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Joining us now from New Orleans is broadcaster and commentator
Jeff Crueer.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Jeff, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Looking breaking news just as we record this, Donald Trump
has signed a sweeping order blocking travel to the US
from nearly twenty countries identified as high risks for terrorism,
visa abuse and failure to share security information. Now, the
new travel restrictions applied to nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya,
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and Yemen, all deemed very high risk due to terrorist activity,
week or hostile governments and high visa overstay rates. Now,
this of course comes after the horrific Colorado terror attack
where Egyptian national Mohammed Solomon, who entered the United States
during the Biden administration and then overstate his visa, is
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of course accused of setting multiple people on fire at
a pro Israel demonstration, including an elderly Holocaust survivor, in
a clear anti Semitic terror attack, and he was allegedly
shouting free Palestine. Can I get your reaction to Donald
Trump's decision today, this major move blocking travel to the
United States, Well, I.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Mean it goes along with his first term. Remember in
his first term, this was one of the first things
that he did and it created a firestorm of controversy.
So I was waiting for when this would happen in
the second term, and.
Speaker 12 (19:16):
Now it has.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
And of course they're twenty nations with very spotty records
as far as their own criminal justice system that people
that have come here from those countries have committed acts
of terror. My radio station is just a few blocks
away from where we had a terror attack here in
New Orleans on a New Year's Day. That was the
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person inspired by isis the of course the one in
Boldery you just referenced was an Egyptian national who overstayed
is his visa. And that's the problem. We've got a
lot of people here in this country that are here
illegally and that want to do harm to Americans. So
I think the president's wise to act. He's got the
strong support of the American peace people to do this.
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It's the area that I think he's been most successful
in his second term, and that is border security and
dealing with this legal immigration problem.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And there is an update on the family of Mohammad Solomon,
the Egyptian national who is the key suspect in the
Colorado terror attack. Now, his family members were also facing
deportation due to visa violations, but a Biden administration appointed
at federal judge in Colorado has now halted the deportation
of his wife and five children. Now, Republicans are slamming
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Democrats for putting illegals ahead of Americans.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What's your reaction to this?
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Oh, I mean I would agree. I mean this has
been going on now ever since Donald Trump started his
second term. I mean, everything he does, they're taking to court,
They're finding sympathetic judges, and they're trying to halt what
the president's policies are. We the people, the people of
the United States, over seven seven million people voted for
Donald Trump and his policies. Democrats are trying to go
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through judges, sympathetic judges, to stop the president from implementing
what he campaigned on, what the voters said they wanted.
Joe Biden, when he was president, was able to get
more judges confirmed than Donald Trump. So there are a
lot of Biden judges out there, a lot of very
sympathetic judges to these Democrats filing lawsuits. So they're going
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to find judges. They'll go venue shopping, They'll find judges
to stop different pieces of the Trump agenda, and a
lot of it will have to be decided by the
Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Jeff, I want to speak to you about the Big
Beautiful Bill. Elon Musk has lashed out at Trump's Big
Beautiful Bill, calling it a disgusting abomination. He wrote on
X I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous pork Field Congressional spending bill is a
disgusting abomination.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Shame on those who voted for it. You know you
did wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You know it now looking at the bill, we know
that it makes some tax cuts permanent, it allocates spending
for the wall for border security, and cut some Medicaid benefits. Now,
Musk's concern is that it's estimated the bill would add
approximately two point four trillion dollars to the national debt
over the next decade. You know, hearing these concerns, I
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think some people agree with what Musk is pointing out.
Then others also see that Trump needs to get this through.
What influence does Musk have at this point and what
are your thoughts about it?
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Well, I just want to command elne Mask for everything
he did for our country, serving in a volunteer capacity
as head of DOGE, really putting his businesses at risk.
You know, we had all these attacks on Tesla dealerships,
Tesla owners.
Speaker 12 (22:53):
So he did all of.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
This for the American people, and he went through all
of this. They identified one hundred and seventy billion in
cut and he didn't see any of it in this big,
beautiful bill. Now they've come forward with anemic nine point
three billion dollar recision bill that is just a joke,
just the small fraction of what they've identified. So I
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think he's raising legitimate concerns. I think a lot of
people that are fiscal hawks fiscal conservatives think that this
bill should have had a lot more spending cuts. We
our budget deficit right now is knocking on the door
of thirty seven trillion dollars. We've added about eight hundred
billion since Donald Trump became president just four and a
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half months ago, so it's literally out of control.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There's a lot of speculation around the relationship between Elon
Musk and Donald Trump. It's interesting that Trump has not
fired back at Elon, which you know, typically we might
see him do that. He's certainly done that in the past,
with others suggesting that maybe he still also has a
lot of respect for Elon Musk and the work that
he has done for DOGE. We know that White House
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Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked about how Trump would
likely respond to Elon's message.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This is what she had to say.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Look, the President already knows where Elon Musk stood on
this bill. Doesn't change the president's opinion. This is one big,
beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's interesting, what do you make of the White House's
response here? Are you expecting to hear something a bit
fiery from Donald Trump in the future, or do you
think that they'll be able to continue this romance after.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
This, Well, I hope they are, because I really think
Elon Musk adds a tremendous amount to the Trump administration.
So I hope they're going to be able to continue
their relationship. I think President Trump legitimately wants to get
this bill through because he wants his tax cuts extended,
and this was the best bill he felt he could
get through a Republican Congress where they've got a super
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slim majority. Elon Musk has other motivations. He wants more cuts,
and I think we understand where they're both coming from.
And I think the President understands that Elon Musk sacrificed
a tremendous amount. I don't think he's going to criticize
him like he would others. I think he has a
deta gratitude towards Elon Musk. In fact, today he called
him a genius, so instead of criticizing him, he praised him.
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So I hope their relationship continues. I think it's very
beneficial to the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm want to ask you about the Democrats. We've seen
plenty of bizarre behavior from the Democrats in more recent times,
I should say, but this latest stunt by Congressman Eric
Swolwell has certainly backfive.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Look at this video.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
Hey congressman, I'm sure I help you up with the
Trump always chickening out on tariffs anything else that's it?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Is this supposed to help the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I mean, it is so cringe, it is it is.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
I mean, Eric Samalwell is a joke. I mean, come on,
he had a relationship with a Chinese spy. I mean,
the guy came in the last place when he ran
for president. He says he learns about Republican members of
Congress at the gym and talks to him over lifting weights.
I don't think anybody believes that in this stunt. Of course,
(26:40):
the taco stands for Trump always chickening out, which is
a ridiculous claim, because what he does is he set
these tariff levels these countries then want to negotiate a
better deal. He relaxes them because he gets a better
deal for the country. It's called negotiating, it's called the
(27:02):
art of the deal. It's what he's been doing his
entire life. As a businessman as a politician. So he's
not chickening out, he's just negotiating. And Eric Swalwell, I mean,
let him keep doing what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's not going to help the differm Yes, please keep going.
It's just so embarrassing. But as you say, it's art
of the deal. And the Democrats can't get their message
straight or right. Really, either that Trump is chicking you
out or he's a dictator. I mean, which one is it.
But we've also heard from Hakeem Jeffries. He claims that
Donald Trump is trying to destroy America.
Speaker 14 (27:37):
Well, Republicans are aggressively trying to destroy America as we
know it and in the American way of life. That's
what this Donald Trump effort has been all about, which,
by the way, the American people are rejecting and.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
The American way of life. I mean another joke.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Really, you know, they engage in hyperbole all the time.
I mean, it's the countries at risk, democracies at risk.
Donald Trump's a dictator, and it didn't work. I mean
they try that in the campaign, the American people rejected it.
All they have is bash Donald Trump. Is Trump derangement syndrome.
(28:18):
All they do is go after Donald Trump. They offer
nothing of substance for the American people. No policies are
going to help the American people. It's just bash Trump.
I have no doubt if they somehow get control of
Congress again after the midterm election, they'll impeach Donald Trump again.
I mean, that's what they do. So it's just part
(28:39):
for the course for these crazed Democrats, and I would
hope the American people aren't buying the nonsense.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Broadcaster and commentator Jeffret Kruez, thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Great to talk to you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Joining us now from Beverly Hills in California is a
woman known worldwide as America's psychiatrist, doctor Carol Lieberman.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Thank you so much for joining us now.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You've served as a psychiatric expert witness in many celebrity trials,
and probably the biggest case that's rocking Hollywood at the
moment is, of course, the Ditty Case. This is Sean
Ditty Combs's federal racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking trial, and
some of the evidence and the details that have emerged
from this trial have been so disturbing. In the latest development,
(29:27):
did He's ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura's friend Brianna bon Goollan,
testified that did he dangled her from a balcony.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
She alleged that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He held her on the top of the balcony's rail
for around ten to fifteen seconds before pulling her down
and throwing her onto the balcony's furniture Sewn Ditty. Combs
has denied all of the charges against him, which is
of course worth pointing out. But can you bring us
up to speed on the latest to come out of
the trial.
Speaker 15 (29:56):
Yes, each day is more shocking than the next. I
think when the jurors go home, they take a shower
to get they want to get away from all of
the you know, very sexual and just you know, not
just sex, but all the violence, all the you know.
The video, of course, is the cornerstone, the video of
(30:18):
his beating up Cassie Ventura. That's been the cornerstone of
the case. But there have been lots of all the
testimony of various witnesses have been shocking, you know, the
the bombing of a Porsche, of kid cutting, all kinds
of things. What I think is the most interesting part
(30:38):
of it, and this hasn't really been brought up in
testimony per se. Is the fact that a lot of
this is due to Ditty's mother. You know, when Ditty
was growing up, first of all, his father was killed
when he was three years old, so he grew up
with his mother and his grandmother, and his mother these
(31:00):
parties very you know that really they were precursors to
the freak offs that he has now More than he had.
She had parties with with drugs and alcohol and pimps
and prostitutes and you know, basically the same kinds of things,
old or not as at the grand scale that he did.
(31:22):
He had it, and so because of all that she
desensitized him. You know, obviously that was very traumatic to
a little boy growing up. You know, having weekend parties
like this all the time. That skewed his view of sex.
It desensitized him. And that really is at the root
of what happened afterwards, you know, as he got to
(31:44):
be more famous and richer and all that, he was
able to do these kinds of parties.
Speaker 12 (31:48):
At a grand scale. So that has not come up.
Speaker 15 (31:51):
His mother has attended the court pretty much every day,
and at the beginning she was wearing these low cut
outfits and she's somebody must have said something to her
because now she's wearing things are a little more proper,
you know. But uh, but so that's you know, as
a psychiatrist, that's one of the things that interests me.
(32:14):
Some of his friends have been telling him that held
because it's been going so badly. The trial has been
going so badly for him so far, you know, it's
not looking good. Some of his friends have said that
he should testify and throw himself on the mercy of
the court and you know, try to explain why he
did what he did and so on. Now that you know,
(32:34):
as an expert witness, I can tell you that, uh,
there's there's it's two there's two sides to that one.
You know, if at the end things his attorneys say
that things are.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Are you know, I don't know if they admit it,
but if things.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
Are looking so bad that that is sort of a
hail Mary the only kind of way out, then maybe
he should do it.
Speaker 12 (32:55):
But the risk to that is that for all defendants.
Speaker 15 (32:59):
Is that the prosecution if they have you know, once
they're on the stand, Once the defendant is on the stand,
the prosecution can really just go at them and it
could end up being worse.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It's interesting, it's interesting you bring up his mother. It
provides a little bit of context to Didy's background and
what he grew up with. But so much has been
coming out of this trial. As you say, just earlier
in the week, the trial descended into chaos. There was
a ranting member of the public that had to be
removed from court, and that video that you talked about.
A security guard testified that he had to destroy CCTV
(33:34):
of did he assaulting his ex girlfriend Cassie? And he
was paid around one hundred thousand dollars with did he
telling him not to make any big purchases with that
wind fall.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's a really dark stuff.
Speaker 15 (33:48):
Yes, you know, he was trying to totally hide it,
like if this guard could certainly suddenly buy something super
expensive that would make people curious, where'd you get the money?
And also, of course he was made to sign a
non disclosure agreement. But you know, presumably he's under subpoena
(34:09):
and you know was made to testify. But he does
have immunity so that he can't get himself in trouble
by admitting that that he took money to give to
destroy it, and or to give Dinny the tape.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Let's talk about the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni case.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This week, it was revealed.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
That Blake Lively dropped two major claims against her co stars.
She dropped the claim that Baldoni caused her emotional distress
after he demanded proof. Look, from what I can gather,
it's not looking great for either of them, are particularly
Blake Lively. Can you bring us up to speed on
this case?
Speaker 15 (34:44):
Yes, I think Blake Lively, but at this point, it's
sorry that she ever started the whole thing.
Speaker 12 (34:50):
Well, you know, that is a typical.
Speaker 15 (34:54):
You know, it's it's surprising that her attorneys didn't let
her know from the very beginning.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
This is just a common thing, and it certainly is.
Speaker 15 (35:02):
A psychiatric expert witness I encountered this all the time.
If you if one of your claims is emotional distress,
then you have to show proof of that. And the
way that that typically happens is that the person is
then examined by a psychiatrist on their side and on
the the defense side, you know, the it would be
(35:25):
on his side, and and but also there is a
request for production from both sides before the actual trial,
and so part of what is requested is records if
you you know, if you're claiming emotional stress, the defense
has to make sure that you don't have these emotional
problems before the incident that you're claiming emotional distress from.
Speaker 12 (35:50):
So it seemed like it was this.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Big surprise to her, and she didn't want the public,
you know, obviously to see what her what her mental
health records were. But you know, like it's a surprise
that that they wouldn't have made that clear to her
from the beginning when she filed this suit. But you know,
the thing is that she filed this suit in such
(36:14):
a kind of an emotional upheaval, she wasn't really thinking
logically about all these kinds of details. Perhaps they you know,
her attorneys did tell her this, and she just didn't
hear it. But you know, she's claiming that Baldoni was
sexually harassing her. Now, if I've watched the videos of
(36:37):
the scenes of this one particular scene where they're dancing together,
and and I watched the whole movie, it's a really
good movie, but there's this one scene in particular that
she seemed to have a problem with where they were
dancing closely and you know, he was he was talking
to her. Now she was she said that he was
saying certain things that in fact, there actually is a
(36:58):
copy of what he was really saying. You know, music
was going on, and so she thought that the actual
words wouldn't be heard.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
You know, it wasn't heard in the movie.
Speaker 15 (37:08):
But I mean the case, they were able to get
the whole you know, the full file of it. So anyhow,
what I think happened was that she she was so
basically she was trying to say that he came on
to her in this movie.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Now he's married. Nothing, married men.
Speaker 15 (37:23):
Don't come on to women, but he seems happily married.
And really, what I think happened is that she was
got into her character tremendously, you know, like good actors
are supposed to do, and I think she was starting
to fall for him, and she was very uncomfortable with
that possibility because of course she's married, and that made
(37:47):
her all very uncomfortable and so ine. So at the
end she just decided to blame him for sexual harassment
rather than fading, facing and acknowledging her own feelings. I mean,
one of the things that I do is I'm an
besides being an expert witness, I work with movies and
television shows as a psychiatric consultant. So I've been on
(38:08):
sets where, you know, where there are sex scenes or
romantic scenes, all kinds of scenes, and so I know,
you know, I'm looking at that and from that I
and I think she's just way out of line. And
this thing has just taken on a life of its own.
And now you know, things are not looking good for her,
and I wonder if her husband how much longer he's
(38:32):
going to stay supporting her because this has just really
blown up.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Well he's kind of been dragged into it, and so
is her former BFF Taylor Swift, and she's reportedly done.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
With Blake Lively.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Is you've kind of highlighted there have been several mistakes
on Blake Lively's part, But now there are reports that Taylor.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Swift refuses to speak to her.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
She's apparently ignoring or calls, texts and emails from Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Do you know what's going on here?
Speaker 15 (38:59):
Yes, that's because Blake Lively, in her desperation, you know,
she's been trying to get people on her side to
talk for her to help her case to testify, and apparently,
or the reports are that she threatened Taylor Swift that
if she didn't help her didn't testify.
Speaker 12 (39:18):
I didn't say.
Speaker 15 (39:18):
Whatever it is that she wanted her to say, that
she would expose texts between Taylor Swift and her boyfriend,
you know, very personal kinds of texts. Well, the text
are between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, but I mean
comments that she was making about her boyfriend and just
personal comments. Now that's you know, that's not what friends do.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Absolutely not. Look, we have to go into some moment,
but I want to get your thoughts on this. Game
of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Actor Liam Cunningham is joining activist Greta Tunberg in this
stunt to break the stage in gaj Gaza. Rather, they
are among twelve activists sailing to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Look at this, Okay, Hi, I'm Liam, Yes man Thiago.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
If you look in the background, beautiful bulbs, These beautiful
people are going to be going to break the siege
in Kaza. These are our coordinators and if I make
you use it, they won't use the words our heroes.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
The Hollywood celebrity appearing to kind of sympathize with Hamas terrorists.
How this going to How will this turn out for them?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Ah?
Speaker 15 (40:30):
It is really Greta Thunberg. It should stick to climate
change because well, I mean, you know, not that I'm
encouraging that, mind you, but this is so you know,
this is just she always has to be in the
public eye and she hasn't been for a while, so
that she's jumping on this. But it shows for all
(40:51):
of them. Really, it shows such ignorance of what is
going on in the Middle East and as if you know,
what they're doing is going to help somehow. Now, first
of all, she's bringing a token uh token aid, you know,
so it's not clear like what is it a bag
of potato chips or something? In other words, it's not
(41:13):
any significant food or other kind of aid. And plus
it's just believing the Hamas story that that they are
starving and that if there's and that Israel is responsible,
which is not true.
Speaker 12 (41:29):
It's really Hammas who steals whatever the food's in. So
all in all.
Speaker 15 (41:34):
You know, and it could it could really blow up
the war, not just not just Hamas and Israel, but
even getting the United states into it.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
We have to leave it there. We're just out of time.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
That Americas psychiatrist, doctor Carol Leebman, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Really appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 12 (41:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Megan Michael is said to be honored for her work
championing women and undeserved community is at a major gala
event in La Riley Sullivan is a lifestyle reporter here
at skynies dot com dot au. He's always across the
latest celebrity and royal headlines.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Riley, great to see you, Great to be back. So
tell us about this Meghan Markel update.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
She's going to be honored for her work championing women
and undeserved communities at the prestigious Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles gala later this month. What's the story behind
the decision to give this award to Megan.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
Yeah, well, you know, it's kind of an interesting decision.
Speaker 16 (42:28):
As we know, I didn't really see an immediate link
between the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and Mega Markel.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
It was sort of unclear the connection.
Speaker 16 (42:36):
I think that the award is ostensibly to honor her
work supporting communities and women. I don't really see a
connection here, you know, I think, to be honest, I
think Mega Markel is someone who is a great mother.
I think that she's interested in her business benches. I
don't really think philanthropy has really been at the forefront
for her, especially recently.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
You know.
Speaker 16 (42:57):
The only thing I can think of in recent times was,
of course, in the horrible Los Angeles wildfires. I think
her and Harry really sort of stepped up. They volunteered.
I know they donated some money, so I think, you know,
in terms of the Los Angeles area, that's the only
real link I can make. But I do think it's
probably more an opportunity for Meghan to show up to
be honored. I don't think it's a coincidence to say
(43:18):
that this is also happening on the same day as
tripping the Color, so it's almost like she's planned something
or she's agreed to this to go to this gala
cominciding with the Trooping the Color, because you know, as usual,
trooping the Color is a big reminder that she's not
involved in the royal family, that her and Harry are
very much on the arts. So I think this is
an opportunity for her to say, hey, yes, I'm living
(43:38):
in Los Angeles, but I'm still sort of part of
this prestigious philanthropic scene.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah. That's an interesting point, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And also, Meghan's released a bonus episode of her Confessions
of a Female found A podcast where she interviewed Beyonce's.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mother, Tina Knowles. So what were the biggest takeaways from
the chat? What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 16 (43:59):
Yes, well, you know, I listened to the whole forty
minute conversation. I was very curious to hear if Beyonce
would come up. Of course, Tina Noles is sort of
the matriarch of the Knowles family as Beyonce and Solange's mother,
and is a business person. You know, She's had lots
of different business ventures with her daughter hair care company.
So I think that was sort of the link to
Meghan's Confessions of a Female Founder podcast. But the conversation
(44:22):
itself was pretty boring. You know, there was a couple
brief mentions of Beyonce, but realistically it was a pretty
boring conversation. I think the biggest takeaway from the interview
actually had nothing to do with Tina Noles. It was
the revelation that Meghan said that she calls their mutual
friend Tyler Perry, who is a big supporter of the Sussexes.
She said that he is the person she calls.
Speaker 6 (44:44):
For business advice.
Speaker 16 (44:45):
So all of these crazy business ventures, you know, American
Revier Orchard, you know, we love Meghan, you know all
of these ventures, it's Tyler Perry allegedly pulling the string.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Okay, Now, freedom of information requests have revealed that British
tax payers are on the hook for about one point
three million dollars in costs related to Prince Harry's failed
legal battle.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
With the Home Office.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So will Harry be expected to pay or repay the costs?
Speaker 6 (45:09):
Right?
Speaker 16 (45:09):
So the tally now is it's over one point three million.
As you said, that includes the legal action that Harry
took out against the British Home Office over the stripped security.
Of course, when Harry and Meghan left royal duties, they
were no longer entitled to taxpayer funded met police officers
that was removed. Harry was very upset about that decision.
He has cited that as the reason why he refuses
(45:32):
to come back to the UK with his family, and
this has really been an ongoing court battle for over
four years, so he's lost it multiple times on appeals.
It most recently went to the UK Court of Appeals
last month and he lost.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
So therefore he will be expected to.
Speaker 16 (45:46):
Likely reimburse the Home Office and therefore the tax payer
this money. I think that's only fair if he does
repay the one point three million on top of his
own legal fees. It's estimated that he's spent in the
ballpark of about five million dollars. Wow, on this legal battle.
I mean five million dollars. You know, he could have
paid for security with that money. I think it's an
insane decision. But you know, from the taxpayer's point of view,
(46:08):
you know, yeah, they will likely get that money repaid eventually,
but it's not a good look.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
You know, this is Harry.
Speaker 16 (46:13):
He's supposedly misses his homeland, misses his country, and he's.
Speaker 6 (46:18):
Still sort of holding up the court's time.
Speaker 16 (46:20):
You know, it's it's the legal systems, it's all of
these public services that really have better things to do
with their time than here Harry's grievances in his you know,
twenty million dollar mansion.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Like I think they're sick of it.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, absolutely, very well, said our Royal Insider has claimed
that Princess is Beatrice. So Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are
secretly on standby to take on royal duties when William
becomes king. Do we know anything else about, you know,
plans for his cousins, Yes.
Speaker 16 (46:48):
So this is a story. We've talked about it many
times over the years. There's been a lot of speculation
about beaches in Eugenie. I've always firmly believed that they
will eventually be called upon for royal duties. A couple
of reasons why. Firstly, when William becomes king, there is
going to be not enough working morales period.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
There's only eleven at the moment.
Speaker 16 (47:07):
But out of those eleven people currently completing royal duties,
four or five of them are very elderly.
Speaker 13 (47:12):
You know.
Speaker 16 (47:12):
You've got, of course, King Charles and Queen Kimilla, who
are both in their mid seventies. Princess Anne's in her seventies,
but even older than that, you know, we have the
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, you know, who are in
their eighties. Now, you know the Duke of Kent, who's
I think eighty nine. So realistically these are people that
are not going to be part of William's time. When
(47:33):
he becomes king, he's going to need back up. I
think that the logical choice, if you look down the
line of succession, is to go straight to Beatrice. I
think she's always had that sense, if you look at
the way that she's structured her life.
Speaker 6 (47:45):
And her family decisions.
Speaker 16 (47:46):
I think all of that really leads to her thinking
I might be called upon, and I do believe that
she would do it for her cousin. I think Eugenie
as well would be a possible contender, because he's going
to need the support.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
I think.
Speaker 16 (47:58):
You know, of course, William and Kate have three children,
but you know Charlotte, you know Louis and Georgia decades
away from being able to take on royal duties.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
So I do think I would if I'm not a betting.
Speaker 16 (48:09):
Person, but I put a bet on Beatrice, definitely Beatrice
and possibly Eugenie becoming.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Okay, putting out money on it.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Now, a man has been arrested after illegally trespassing on
the grounds of Windsor Castle, not far from Caiton, William's
family home.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
So tell us about this.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Could this latest incident spark kind of a royal security overhaul,
do you think.
Speaker 16 (48:29):
Look, I think that that would definitely be discussion. This
is the second time now in the span of a
year where publicly it's been known that people have trespassed
on to the grounds of Windsor Castle. Of course, Caate
and Will and their family live inside Adelaide Cottage, which
is a regular family home within this sort of confines
of Windsor Castle. That is very much their sanctuary. It's
(48:49):
where they've chosen to raise their family, so of course
you know their security is paramount. This latest incident happened
on Sunday. It was during the daytime, in the afternoon,
a man in his thirties was arrested after breaching sort
of the outer I guess perimeter of Windsor Castle. They
stress it it wasn't as serious as previous incident. Last
year there was another case where I think it was
(49:10):
two men were able to sort of break in close
to Adelaide College.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
They got quite close. They were in the sort of
outer building area. So this is a concern.
Speaker 16 (49:20):
I think that the security of the royal family, whether
it's Prince Harry, you know, in the court room or not,
is always a discussion because at the end of the day,
these are people who live their lives in the public eye.
They're essentially sitting ducks in the sense that we know
where they are. You know, there's a Royal diary, it's
very much easy to track down Royal family members. So
of course their security is important and I hope that
(49:40):
you know this latest incident does certainly, I mean sparkan overhaul.
Whether it changes the way that they run the security
around Windsor Castle unclear, but I do think incidents like
this and the fact they've made a public shows that
you know they are serious about prosecuting people as well.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
Yeah, Riley Sullivan, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (49:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
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This is Power Hour with Gabriella Power.
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Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for your company. We have a massive show coming
up today, but we have to start with Biden's White
House Press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
My goodness, the woman who spent.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Years lying to the American people completely complicit in the
big operation attempting to cover up Biden's decline, now claims
that she doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
To be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
She's suddenly an independent and is coming out with a
tell all book, Independent, a look inside a broken White
House outside the party lines. I'm not sure who is
going to be forking out for this, but let's just
take a quick look back on the role she played
as White House Press secretary.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The gas lighting was on another level.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
He is the sharpest because ever as I have known
him to be in my engagement and my experience with.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Him, how many times are we told that?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And remember when she tried to pretend the videos of
Biden looking increasingly terrible with cheap fakes and disinformation.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
There seems to be a sort of rash of videos
that have been exitted to make the President appear especially
frail or mentally confused.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'm wondering if the White.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Houses especially worried about the fact that this this appears
to be a pattern number sing more from.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, and I think you all have called this the
cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are. They
are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad fakes
and in some of your news organization have been very
clear have stressed that these right wing, the weight wing
critics of the president have a credibility problem because of
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the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation disinformation.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And she still pretends that she wasn't part of one
of the biggest political scandals of.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
All time, the Biden cover up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But just like Jake Tapper, who was also part of
that cover up and is still pretending that he wasn't
really and is now profiting from that, Kareem Jean Pierre
has found herself a book deal where this time she'll
apparently be telling you the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And this is my answer, and what I mean by
that is, in an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness
of social policy, what we're seeing currently right now, what
I have decided to do and I really have thought
long and horrid about this is to follow my own compass.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And the pr around this is such a joke, Hatchet
Book Group said, and a press release, Jean Pierre didn't
come to her decision to be an independent lightly.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She takes us through the three weeks that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term
and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to
his decision. In a hard hitting, yet hopeful critique, Jean
Pierre defines what it means to be part of the
growing percentage of our electric that is independent, why it
can be worthwhile to carve a political space more loyal
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to personal beliefs than a party affiliation, and what questions
you need to ask yourself to determine where you fit politically.
I mean, come on, Karine, Jean Pierre has no credibility.
She's likely going to be getting the knives out. She
might name some names in this book and then make
a few dollars, But isn't it interesting that after working
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for Obama and Biden, she's now urging Americans to essentially
follow her and abandon the Democrat Party. Now we will
return back to this story with my guest Adam Crichton
in just a moment, but first it's time for media meltdowns.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, she's back fired.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
MSNBC host joy Reid is speaking out about why the
left wing network dumped her earlier this year. Joy Reid
told Katie Couric that it had nothing to do with
her failing ratings and even worse content, but she raised
concerns that it may have had something to do with
her race and her anxiety around Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
There is a lot of anxiety both there and I
think in every media. We're seeing it at CBS, We're
seeing it at ABC, where allegedly the view hosts were
told not to go so hard on Trump, where there's
a push for people to hey, do less Trump, do
more entertainment, don't be hard on him. Yeah, I vary
that pages there's a fear of him. So I think
there's you know, and obviously I'm but you weren't. I mean,
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let's be honest, you were no different than Nicole or
Rachel Maddow, where only in one way was I different.
I'm a black woman doing the thing, you know what
I mean, And so I'm not different, but I'm different
because in my in terms, I was just talking in
terms of your criticizing of Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, and Joy Reid did not stop there. She was
just getting started claiming that Donald Trump can't have a
criticism coming from her because she's a black woman.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I think that there is a there's a difference for
Trump in hearing the kinds of criticism specifically out of
a black woman. It bothers him in a way. It
doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort
of tick about race, you know, and about you know,
sort of criticism coming specifically from a black woman, because
we've seen him layout and dish out real, you know,
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abuse against black women journalists.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So I think there is.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
And also I did a specific thing, which was I
tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country,
which is very much against the sort of project between
twenty five things. And it's something I can do in
a certain capacity because of my background.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You know, after the election where she told Americans that
Kamala Harris's campaign was flawless, her show the readout, she
had nearly fifty percent of its total audience, and you
look back at her work on MSNBC and you wonder
why that is.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
We've Reid out the stakes in this crucial election where
one side stands for freedom while the other meets the
textbook definition of fascism, namely a far right dictatorial regime
like Hitler's Germany or Frankel's Spain or Mussolini's Italy, but
also white ruled South Africa before Mendela and the black
majority to control, or Vladimir Putin's Russia, Victor Orbon's Hungary
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or Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela today.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
How weird that calling your political opponents Nazis repeatedly just
didn't really work out for and you know, it might
have even helped Trump win the election because her commentary
was so disgusting and came at a time where more
and more people were waking up to the bs that
the mainstream media were absolutely pushing. So good riddance to
Drey Reid. Well done to MSNBC for getting rid of
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her earlier this year. But sadly, MSNBC's coverage is still
pretty awful, its hosts us still suffering from severe TDS,
and its new lineup is failing. Its ratings have dropped
forty one percent in prime time since Jen Saki took
over full time hosting and what about over at CNN?
Is that where the audience is going? Apparently not. According
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to Nielsen Media Research data, CNN finished with its worst
week of the year. Joining US now is chief economist
at the Institute of Public Affairs, Adam Crichton. Adam, great
to see you, and we have to talk about Karine
Jean Pierre in a moment. But first, someone who's somehow
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even worse in my opinion ex MSNBC host Droy Reid.
She's now speculating that she may have been fired because
of her race and because of her anxiety around Donald Trump.
Doesn't really surprise me hearing that type of commentary coming
from her. But what's your reaction to this?
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Well, look, I mean I've spent a few years watching
cable news in the US and Joy Reid was the
most hysterical far left race baiting broadcaster that I've ever seen.
I mean, it's actually shocking by Australian standards, and her
ratings were tanking.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean, the notion that she was sacked for her
race is just absurd.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
I mean, she constantly lost her slot, she's paid, she
was paid millions of dollars a year, so she clearly
wasn't worth it, and she's furious. I mean her her
style of politics, her style of rhetoric.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Clearly didn't work.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
But she was ranting away for years and then there
was a huge swing to Trump from Black Americans, from
Hispanic Americans. So you know, I think the network was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And they got rid of her. That's the reason. Nothing
to do with.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Race, absolutely well said.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But it's interesting because getting rid of getting rid of
her on MSNBC, it actually hasn't even helped their ratings,
their tanking. So are CNNs at the moment, And I
don't really see a way that they can get their
audience back when so many Americans have just seen them
for what they are. Many of them view their hosts
as just Democrat mouthpieces. I mean, what does the future
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hold for MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Yeah, look, certainly MSNBC was just the propaganda arm of
the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You're quite right.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I mean people criticize Fox News for being right wing,
but they often have alternative voices on Fox News, and
it's a ratings powerhouse. They constantly when they're slots. Sometimes
their ratings are higher than c and MSNBC. Put together,
so it's you know, it's a crisis for those other
two networks. But as I said, you know they're ranting
and raving against Trump. You know, they had massive TDS
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and it didn't work. So I think there's a lot
of embarrassment, and I think the audience is embarrassed too,
because they were lapping all of this up, thinking that Biden.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Was going to win, that Harris was going to win,
and you know she was thrashed.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
So I mean, I think they've switched off just out
of embarrassment. Partly, I think they're going to have to
become more centrist those networks and try to compete with Fox,
which despite all the rhetoric against it, I think is
pretty middle ground, pretty central.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Absolutely, No, I agree with you, Adam. We have to
speak about Karine Jean Pierre. She's now released a tel
all book, Independent, A Look inside a Broken White House
Outside the party lines. This is what she said earlier
in the year, claiming that she wasn't really part of
Biden's cover up and there was a disconnect between her
and the party.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
There was a disconnect from me what was happening with
leadership and the Democratic Party and how it was truly.
As my former colleague, communications director Ben la Bald said,
it was a firing squad and I had never seen
anything like it before.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
So what are we going to hear from this book?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do you suspect that she's going to suppose, get the
knives out, maybe name a few people that she's fallen
out with.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Well, look, I certainly won't be buying it, but she'll
probably refer to herself as an historic figure, which she
did once in a newspaper article in the US, which
was somewhat hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Look, she was the worst press secretary of the.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
US has ever had, really for the president, no question,
she was the ultimate diversity of higher I'm sorry to say.
Jensaki was way way better. I don't think. I don't
think that KJP, as she's called, will even get a
TV show because she's just not very talented. Look, they're
all saying this now, Jake Tapper, KJP. They're all saying, oh,
you know, we knew what was going on, but they
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never said anything at the time. I think they're just
trying to save their future careers by making these sorts
of statements.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And making money from it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now and now they do a tell all when it
doesn't matter, when it's too late and they're profiting from it.
But what does it say about the Democrat Party when
you have someone who was kind of the face of it,
who is now encouraging people to essentially walk away and
look at being independent.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, look, I don't know if people will.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
I mean, as you know, the US is so incredibly polarized,
but the Democrat Party is facing an existential crisis. I mean,
it used to thrive by pandering to minorities, but as
I just said earlier, there was a swing to Trump
from all of those minorities.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
So this sort of coalition strategy.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
That they've used for years, it's just not working anymore,
and so they're fumbling around with what to believe in. So,
you know, probably is frustrated with the party because it's
probably going to be out of power, at least in
the White House.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
For quite some time.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now, we've been talking about, obviously that the Biden cover up,
and Donald Trump says that the biggest scandal is also
the use of Biden's autopen and using the autopen for
some of those partterns. Now, Trump has ordered Attorney General
pen Bondi to investigate the use of Biden's autopen. The
White House has put out a statement today saying that
the nation is governed through presidential signatures. In recent months,
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it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden's aides
abused the power of presidential signatures through the use of
an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive decline and assert article
to authority. This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous
and concerning scandals in American history, and this is not
going away anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But what can really happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Adam, Well, look, I think that's broadly true.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
I mean, the presidential pardon power is an extremely serious matter,
so you would think the president would actually physically signed
these documents.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But that clearly did not happen.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
With the suite of pardons that happened at the end
of Biden's presidency, I mean, of course, the famous one
being Anthony Fauci, who was pardoned for anything going back
ten years, and there were many other pardons too, And
as you point out, it was exactly the same signature
on all of these pardons, suggesting that Biden did not
even know that he was partying these people. So I
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think there does have to be an inquiry to work
at who, I mean, who on earth was actually governing
the US, especially in those last years of the Biden presidency,
when it was clear for all to see, for the
American public to see that he was in mark decline.
I mean, he could barely string a sentence together. And
you know, people like KJP we just talked about, were
saying the time that everything was fine. So you know,
it is a serious matter, and I think the Trump's
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right to order an investigation of that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Caroline Levertt was asked about the autopen scandal yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Here's the exchange.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Looks different, It looks authentic. In fact, if you look
at the last name, it almost looks like the president
was having a hard time spelling his last name. There
is this White House of the opinion that the only
pardon that would count is one of the presidents signed
and suck.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
It's very interesting, very interesting props. If you want to
bring them to my office later so I can take
a closer a look, I would like to do that.
The President is making a good point when he discusses
the usage of the autopen. Who was running the country
for the past four years.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, It's an interesting question because it's strange that Hunter
Biden's pardon, the person who was never supposed to get
a pardon at all, appears to be one of the
only ones that actually has Biden's hand written signature.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
No, that's right, and look, I'm sure that was the
president's decision himself, despite the fact, as you point out,
the President said many times the former president, I should say,
said many times that he would not pardon his son,
but he did. That was probably the only one that
he was aware of. But yeah, look at his you know,
it's very sad actually because if you take a step
back now, there have been so many pardons this president
has been set Now I think that you'll see at
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the end of every presidency there's going to be, you know,
two dozen pardons of people. And that's not really what
it was set up for.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's extraordinary use of power and you know, preemptive pardons,
you know, Biden, that is part of his legacy.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I want to talk to you about Doze.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
President Trump has officially sent the first nine billion dollar
Doze Recisions package package to Congress. So this is to
gut funding for USAID, PBS, NPR, US Institute for Peace
and other foreign aid programs. But nine billion dollars, you know,
it's no wonder that Elon Musk is pretty disappointed at
the moment. It's not a lot of money in the
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grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
No, look, it's absolutely not.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
I mean, the US revenue every year is something like
seven trillion or no, sorry, five trillion. Spending is seven trillion,
revenue is five trillion. There's an enormous deficit of roughly
two trillion dollars every single year, and so nine billion
dollars in the US context is absolutely nothing. And so
I sympathize with Elon Musk. You know, he spent months
of his time, he sacrificed a lot financially himself to
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help the US government makes savings. And now there's this
bill before Congress which which you know, which he said
is pathetic essentially.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Which which just increases the debt further.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
And so there's this token other bill you've pointed out,
nine billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's a bit of a joke.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Really, So you know, I think we're you know, we're
seeing the beginnings of the fraying of the Trump mask relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I think, for.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Sure, interesting to watch this space as Yeah, I agree
with you that it is disappointing when they were identifying
so much waste and then we're down to nine billion dollars.
But finally, Adam, I want to speak to you about
what is happening here in Australia, and that is federal
spending on climate and that zero policy has surged you
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nine billion dollars a year. So a decade ago it
was six hundred million dollars. Now it's nine billion, and
who knows what that will get to. But what value
are we getting for this money?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Well, look, just firstly, nine billion dollars in the Australian
context is a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You know, it basically would be yes, I mean it
would be.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
The twentieth largest program of the federal government. So I
looked at federal spending on climate change and at zero
and I was just shocked that over ten years it's
increased fifteenfold and about four hundred percent just in the
last few years since Labor was elected.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So this is serious money.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
And you know you ask about value, well, there isn't
much because omissions are actually going up.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
They've barely fallen.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Of course, power prices are going up as you know,
so we've got power prices going up and the government
is asking taxpayers for nine billion dollars a year on
renewable this renewable app I mean, it's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Really, it's a fiscal disaster.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
And so when the government says, for instance, oh, we
can't afford to spend more on defense, we'll just remember
that they're spending nine billion dollars a year on all
sorts of boondoggles for a so called climate change.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So it's a huge waste.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Adam Crichton at Chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs,
thank you so much for.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Your time, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Joining us now from New Orleans is broadcaster and commentator
Jeff Crueer.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Jeff, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Looking breaking news just as we record this, Donald Trump
has signed a sweeping order blocking travel to the US
from nearly twenty countries identified as high risks for terrorism,
visa abuse and failure to share security information. Now, the
new travel restrictions applied to nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya,
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and Yemen, all deemed very high risk due to terrorist activity,
week or hostile governments and high visa overstay rates. Now,
this of course comes after the horrific Colorado terror attack
where Egyptian national Mohammed Solomon, who entered the United States
during the Biden administration and then overstate his visa, is
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of course accused of setting multiple people on fire at
a pro Israel demonstration, including an elderly Holocaust survivor, in
a clear anti Semitic terror attack, and he was allegedly
shouting free Palestine. Can I get your reaction to Donald
Trump's decision today, this major move blocking travel to the
United States, Well, I.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Mean it goes along with his first term. Remember in
his first term, this was one of the first things
that he did and it created a firestorm of controversy.
So I was waiting for when this would happen in
the second term, and.
Speaker 12 (19:16):
Now it has.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
And of course they're twenty nations with very spotty records
as far as their own criminal justice system that people
that have come here from those countries have committed acts
of terror. My radio station is just a few blocks
away from where we had a terror attack here in
New Orleans on a New Year's Day. That was the
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person inspired by isis the of course the one in
Boldery you just referenced was an Egyptian national who overstayed
is his visa. And that's the problem. We've got a
lot of people here in this country that are here
illegally and that want to do harm to Americans. So
I think the president's wise to act. He's got the
strong support of the American peace people to do this.
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It's the area that I think he's been most successful
in his second term, and that is border security and
dealing with this legal immigration problem.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And there is an update on the family of Mohammad Solomon,
the Egyptian national who is the key suspect in the
Colorado terror attack. Now, his family members were also facing
deportation due to visa violations, but a Biden administration appointed
at federal judge in Colorado has now halted the deportation
of his wife and five children. Now, Republicans are slamming
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Democrats for putting illegals ahead of Americans.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What's your reaction to this?
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Oh, I mean I would agree. I mean this has
been going on now ever since Donald Trump started his
second term. I mean, everything he does, they're taking to court,
They're finding sympathetic judges, and they're trying to halt what
the president's policies are. We the people, the people of
the United States, over seven seven million people voted for
Donald Trump and his policies. Democrats are trying to go
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through judges, sympathetic judges, to stop the president from implementing
what he campaigned on, what the voters said they wanted.
Joe Biden, when he was president, was able to get
more judges confirmed than Donald Trump. So there are a
lot of Biden judges out there, a lot of very
sympathetic judges to these Democrats filing lawsuits. So they're going
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to find judges. They'll go venue shopping, They'll find judges
to stop different pieces of the Trump agenda, and a
lot of it will have to be decided by the
Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Jeff, I want to speak to you about the Big
Beautiful Bill. Elon Musk has lashed out at Trump's Big
Beautiful Bill, calling it a disgusting abomination. He wrote on
X I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous pork Field Congressional spending bill is a
disgusting abomination.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Shame on those who voted for it. You know you
did wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You know it now looking at the bill, we know
that it makes some tax cuts permanent, it allocates spending
for the wall for border security, and cut some Medicaid benefits. Now,
Musk's concern is that it's estimated the bill would add
approximately two point four trillion dollars to the national debt
over the next decade. You know, hearing these concerns, I
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think some people agree with what Musk is pointing out.
Then others also see that Trump needs to get this through.
What influence does Musk have at this point and what
are your thoughts about it?
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Well, I just want to command elne Mask for everything
he did for our country, serving in a volunteer capacity
as head of DOGE, really putting his businesses at risk.
You know, we had all these attacks on Tesla dealerships,
Tesla owners.
Speaker 12 (22:53):
So he did all of.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
This for the American people, and he went through all
of this. They identified one hundred and seventy billion in
cut and he didn't see any of it in this big,
beautiful bill. Now they've come forward with anemic nine point
three billion dollar recision bill that is just a joke,
just the small fraction of what they've identified. So I
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think he's raising legitimate concerns. I think a lot of
people that are fiscal hawks fiscal conservatives think that this
bill should have had a lot more spending cuts. We
our budget deficit right now is knocking on the door
of thirty seven trillion dollars. We've added about eight hundred
billion since Donald Trump became president just four and a
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half months ago, so it's literally out of control.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There's a lot of speculation around the relationship between Elon
Musk and Donald Trump. It's interesting that Trump has not
fired back at Elon, which you know, typically we might
see him do that. He's certainly done that in the past,
with others suggesting that maybe he still also has a
lot of respect for Elon Musk and the work that
he has done for DOGE. We know that White House
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Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked about how Trump would
likely respond to Elon's message.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This is what she had to say.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Look, the President already knows where Elon Musk stood on
this bill. Doesn't change the president's opinion. This is one big,
beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's interesting, what do you make of the White House's
response here? Are you expecting to hear something a bit
fiery from Donald Trump in the future, or do you
think that they'll be able to continue this romance after.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
This, Well, I hope they are, because I really think
Elon Musk adds a tremendous amount to the Trump administration.
So I hope they're going to be able to continue
their relationship. I think President Trump legitimately wants to get
this bill through because he wants his tax cuts extended,
and this was the best bill he felt he could
get through a Republican Congress where they've got a super
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slim majority. Elon Musk has other motivations. He wants more cuts,
and I think we understand where they're both coming from.
And I think the President understands that Elon Musk sacrificed
a tremendous amount. I don't think he's going to criticize
him like he would others. I think he has a
deta gratitude towards Elon Musk. In fact, today he called
him a genius, so instead of criticizing him, he praised him.
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So I hope their relationship continues. I think it's very
beneficial to the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm want to ask you about the Democrats. We've seen
plenty of bizarre behavior from the Democrats in more recent times,
I should say, but this latest stunt by Congressman Eric
Swolwell has certainly backfive.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Look at this video.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
Hey congressman, I'm sure I help you up with the
Trump always chickening out on tariffs anything else that's it?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Is this supposed to help the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I mean, it is so cringe, it is it is.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
I mean, Eric Samalwell is a joke. I mean, come on,
he had a relationship with a Chinese spy. I mean,
the guy came in the last place when he ran
for president. He says he learns about Republican members of
Congress at the gym and talks to him over lifting weights.
I don't think anybody believes that in this stunt. Of course,
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the taco stands for Trump always chickening out, which is
a ridiculous claim, because what he does is he set
these tariff levels these countries then want to negotiate a
better deal. He relaxes them because he gets a better
deal for the country. It's called negotiating, it's called the
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art of the deal. It's what he's been doing his
entire life. As a businessman as a politician. So he's
not chickening out, he's just negotiating. And Eric Swalwell, I mean,
let him keep doing what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's not going to help the differm Yes, please keep going.
It's just so embarrassing. But as you say, it's art
of the deal. And the Democrats can't get their message
straight or right. Really, either that Trump is chicking you
out or he's a dictator. I mean, which one is it.
But we've also heard from Hakeem Jeffries. He claims that
Donald Trump is trying to destroy America.
Speaker 14 (27:37):
Well, Republicans are aggressively trying to destroy America as we
know it and in the American way of life. That's
what this Donald Trump effort has been all about, which,
by the way, the American people are rejecting and.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
The American way of life. I mean another joke.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Really, you know, they engage in hyperbole all the time.
I mean, it's the countries at risk, democracies at risk.
Donald Trump's a dictator, and it didn't work. I mean
they try that in the campaign, the American people rejected it.
All they have is bash Donald Trump. Is Trump derangement syndrome.
(28:18):
All they do is go after Donald Trump. They offer
nothing of substance for the American people. No policies are
going to help the American people. It's just bash Trump.
I have no doubt if they somehow get control of
Congress again after the midterm election, they'll impeach Donald Trump again.
I mean, that's what they do. So it's just part
(28:39):
for the course for these crazed Democrats, and I would
hope the American people aren't buying the nonsense.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Broadcaster and commentator Jeffret Kruez, thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Great to talk to you, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Joining us now from Beverly Hills in California is a
woman known worldwide as America's psychiatrist, doctor Carol Lieberman.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Thank you so much for joining us now.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You've served as a psychiatric expert witness in many celebrity trials,
and probably the biggest case that's rocking Hollywood at the
moment is, of course, the Ditty Case. This is Sean
Ditty Combs's federal racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking trial, and
some of the evidence and the details that have emerged
from this trial have been so disturbing. In the latest development,
(29:27):
did He's ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura's friend Brianna bon Goollan,
testified that did he dangled her from a balcony.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
She alleged that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He held her on the top of the balcony's rail
for around ten to fifteen seconds before pulling her down
and throwing her onto the balcony's furniture Sewn Ditty. Combs
has denied all of the charges against him, which is
of course worth pointing out. But can you bring us
up to speed on the latest to come out of
the trial.
Speaker 15 (29:56):
Yes, each day is more shocking than the next. I
think when the jurors go home, they take a shower
to get they want to get away from all of
the you know, very sexual and just you know, not
just sex, but all the violence, all the you know.
The video, of course, is the cornerstone, the video of
(30:18):
his beating up Cassie Ventura. That's been the cornerstone of
the case. But there have been lots of all the
testimony of various witnesses have been shocking, you know, the
the bombing of a Porsche, of kid cutting, all kinds
of things. What I think is the most interesting part
(30:38):
of it, and this hasn't really been brought up in
testimony per se. Is the fact that a lot of
this is due to Ditty's mother. You know, when Ditty
was growing up, first of all, his father was killed
when he was three years old, so he grew up
with his mother and his grandmother, and his mother these
(31:00):
parties very you know that really they were precursors to
the freak offs that he has now More than he had.
She had parties with with drugs and alcohol and pimps
and prostitutes and you know, basically the same kinds of things,
old or not as at the grand scale that he did.
(31:22):
He had it, and so because of all that she
desensitized him. You know, obviously that was very traumatic to
a little boy growing up. You know, having weekend parties
like this all the time. That skewed his view of sex.
It desensitized him. And that really is at the root
of what happened afterwards, you know, as he got to
(31:44):
be more famous and richer and all that, he was
able to do these kinds of parties.
Speaker 12 (31:48):
At a grand scale. So that has not come up.
Speaker 15 (31:51):
His mother has attended the court pretty much every day,
and at the beginning she was wearing these low cut
outfits and she's somebody must have said something to her
because now she's wearing things are a little more proper,
you know. But uh, but so that's you know, as
a psychiatrist, that's one of the things that interests me.
(32:14):
Some of his friends have been telling him that held
because it's been going so badly. The trial has been
going so badly for him so far, you know, it's
not looking good. Some of his friends have said that
he should testify and throw himself on the mercy of
the court and you know, try to explain why he
did what he did and so on. Now that you know,
(32:34):
as an expert witness, I can tell you that, uh,
there's there's it's two there's two sides to that one.
You know, if at the end things his attorneys say
that things are.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Are you know, I don't know if they admit it,
but if things.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
Are looking so bad that that is sort of a
hail Mary the only kind of way out, then maybe
he should do it.
Speaker 12 (32:55):
But the risk to that is that for all defendants.
Speaker 15 (32:59):
Is that the prosecution if they have you know, once
they're on the stand, Once the defendant is on the stand,
the prosecution can really just go at them and it
could end up being worse.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It's interesting, it's interesting you bring up his mother. It
provides a little bit of context to Didy's background and
what he grew up with. But so much has been
coming out of this trial. As you say, just earlier
in the week, the trial descended into chaos. There was
a ranting member of the public that had to be
removed from court, and that video that you talked about.
A security guard testified that he had to destroy CCTV
(33:34):
of did he assaulting his ex girlfriend Cassie? And he
was paid around one hundred thousand dollars with did he
telling him not to make any big purchases with that
wind fall.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's a really dark stuff.
Speaker 15 (33:48):
Yes, you know, he was trying to totally hide it,
like if this guard could certainly suddenly buy something super
expensive that would make people curious, where'd you get the money?
And also, of course he was made to sign a
non disclosure agreement. But you know, presumably he's under subpoena
(34:09):
and you know was made to testify. But he does
have immunity so that he can't get himself in trouble
by admitting that that he took money to give to
destroy it, and or to give Dinny the tape.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Let's talk about the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni case.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This week, it was revealed.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
That Blake Lively dropped two major claims against her co stars.
She dropped the claim that Baldoni caused her emotional distress
after he demanded proof. Look, from what I can gather,
it's not looking great for either of them, are particularly
Blake Lively. Can you bring us up to speed on
this case?
Speaker 15 (34:44):
Yes, I think Blake Lively, but at this point, it's
sorry that she ever started the whole thing.
Speaker 12 (34:50):
Well, you know, that is a typical.
Speaker 15 (34:54):
You know, it's it's surprising that her attorneys didn't let
her know from the very beginning.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
This is just a common thing, and it certainly is.
Speaker 15 (35:02):
A psychiatric expert witness I encountered this all the time.
If you if one of your claims is emotional distress,
then you have to show proof of that. And the
way that that typically happens is that the person is
then examined by a psychiatrist on their side and on
the the defense side, you know, the it would be
(35:25):
on his side, and and but also there is a
request for production from both sides before the actual trial,
and so part of what is requested is records if
you you know, if you're claiming emotional stress, the defense
has to make sure that you don't have these emotional
problems before the incident that you're claiming emotional distress from.
Speaker 12 (35:50):
So it seemed like it was this.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
Big surprise to her, and she didn't want the public,
you know, obviously to see what her what her mental
health records were. But you know, like it's a surprise
that that they wouldn't have made that clear to her
from the beginning when she filed this suit. But you know,
the thing is that she filed this suit in such
(36:14):
a kind of an emotional upheaval, she wasn't really thinking
logically about all these kinds of details. Perhaps they you know,
her attorneys did tell her this, and she just didn't
hear it. But you know, she's claiming that Baldoni was
sexually harassing her. Now, if I've watched the videos of
(36:37):
the scenes of this one particular scene where they're dancing together,
and and I watched the whole movie, it's a really
good movie, but there's this one scene in particular that
she seemed to have a problem with where they were
dancing closely and you know, he was he was talking
to her. Now she was she said that he was
saying certain things that in fact, there actually is a
(36:58):
copy of what he was really saying. You know, music
was going on, and so she thought that the actual
words wouldn't be heard.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
You know, it wasn't heard in the movie.
Speaker 15 (37:08):
But I mean the case, they were able to get
the whole you know, the full file of it. So anyhow,
what I think happened was that she she was so
basically she was trying to say that he came on
to her in this movie.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Now he's married. Nothing, married men.
Speaker 15 (37:23):
Don't come on to women, but he seems happily married.
And really, what I think happened is that she was
got into her character tremendously, you know, like good actors
are supposed to do, and I think she was starting
to fall for him, and she was very uncomfortable with
that possibility because of course she's married, and that made
(37:47):
her all very uncomfortable and so ine. So at the
end she just decided to blame him for sexual harassment
rather than fading, facing and acknowledging her own feelings. I mean,
one of the things that I do is I'm an
besides being an expert witness, I work with movies and
television shows as a psychiatric consultant. So I've been on
(38:08):
sets where, you know, where there are sex scenes or
romantic scenes, all kinds of scenes, and so I know,
you know, I'm looking at that and from that I
and I think she's just way out of line. And
this thing has just taken on a life of its own.
And now you know, things are not looking good for her,
and I wonder if her husband how much longer he's
(38:32):
going to stay supporting her because this has just really
blown up.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Well he's kind of been dragged into it, and so
is her former BFF Taylor Swift, and she's reportedly done.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
With Blake Lively.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Is you've kind of highlighted there have been several mistakes
on Blake Lively's part, But now there are reports that Taylor.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Swift refuses to speak to her.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
She's apparently ignoring or calls, texts and emails from Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Do you know what's going on here?
Speaker 15 (38:59):
Yes, that's because Blake Lively, in her desperation, you know,
she's been trying to get people on her side to
talk for her to help her case to testify, and apparently,
or the reports are that she threatened Taylor Swift that
if she didn't help her didn't testify.
Speaker 12 (39:18):
I didn't say.
Speaker 15 (39:18):
Whatever it is that she wanted her to say, that
she would expose texts between Taylor Swift and her boyfriend,
you know, very personal kinds of texts. Well, the text
are between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, but I mean
comments that she was making about her boyfriend and just
personal comments. Now that's you know, that's not what friends do.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Absolutely not. Look, we have to go into some moment,
but I want to get your thoughts on this. Game
of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Actor Liam Cunningham is joining activist Greta Tunberg in this
stunt to break the stage in gaj Gaza. Rather, they
are among twelve activists sailing to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Look at this, Okay, Hi, I'm Liam, Yes man Thiago.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
If you look in the background, beautiful bulbs, These beautiful
people are going to be going to break the siege
in Kaza. These are our coordinators and if I make
you use it, they won't use the words our heroes.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
The Hollywood celebrity appearing to kind of sympathize with Hamas terrorists.
How this going to How will this turn out for them?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Ah?
Speaker 15 (40:30):
It is really Greta Thunberg. It should stick to climate
change because well, I mean, you know, not that I'm
encouraging that, mind you, but this is so you know,
this is just she always has to be in the
public eye and she hasn't been for a while, so
that she's jumping on this. But it shows for all
(40:51):
of them. Really, it shows such ignorance of what is
going on in the Middle East and as if you know,
what they're doing is going to help somehow. Now, first
of all, she's bringing a token uh token aid, you know,
so it's not clear like what is it a bag
of potato chips or something? In other words, it's not
(41:13):
any significant food or other kind of aid. And plus
it's just believing the Hamas story that that they are
starving and that if there's and that Israel is responsible,
which is not true.
Speaker 12 (41:29):
It's really Hammas who steals whatever the food's in. So
all in all.
Speaker 15 (41:34):
You know, and it could it could really blow up
the war, not just not just Hamas and Israel, but
even getting the United states into it.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
We have to leave it there. We're just out of time.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
That Americas psychiatrist, doctor Carol Leebman, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Really appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 12 (41:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Megan Michael is said to be honored for her work
championing women and undeserved community is at a major gala
event in La Riley Sullivan is a lifestyle reporter here
at skynies dot com dot au. He's always across the
latest celebrity and royal headlines.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Riley, great to see you, Great to be back. So
tell us about this Meghan Markel update.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
She's going to be honored for her work championing women
and undeserved communities at the prestigious Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles gala later this month. What's the story behind
the decision to give this award to Megan.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
Yeah, well, you know, it's kind of an interesting decision.
Speaker 16 (42:28):
As we know, I didn't really see an immediate link
between the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and Mega Markel.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
It was sort of unclear the connection.
Speaker 16 (42:36):
I think that the award is ostensibly to honor her
work supporting communities and women. I don't really see a
connection here, you know, I think, to be honest, I
think Mega Markel is someone who is a great mother.
I think that she's interested in her business benches. I
don't really think philanthropy has really been at the forefront
for her, especially recently.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
You know.
Speaker 16 (42:57):
The only thing I can think of in recent times was,
of course, in the horrible Los Angeles wildfires. I think
her and Harry really sort of stepped up. They volunteered.
I know they donated some money, so I think, you know,
in terms of the Los Angeles area, that's the only
real link I can make. But I do think it's
probably more an opportunity for Meghan to show up to
be honored. I don't think it's a coincidence to say
(43:18):
that this is also happening on the same day as
tripping the Color, so it's almost like she's planned something
or she's agreed to this to go to this gala
cominciding with the Trooping the Color, because you know, as usual,
trooping the Color is a big reminder that she's not
involved in the royal family, that her and Harry are
very much on the arts. So I think this is
an opportunity for her to say, hey, yes, I'm living
(43:38):
in Los Angeles, but I'm still sort of part of
this prestigious philanthropic scene.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah. That's an interesting point, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And also, Meghan's released a bonus episode of her Confessions
of a Female found A podcast where she interviewed Beyonce's.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mother, Tina Knowles. So what were the biggest takeaways from
the chat? What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 16 (43:59):
Yes, well, you know, I listened to the whole forty
minute conversation. I was very curious to hear if Beyonce
would come up. Of course, Tina Noles is sort of
the matriarch of the Knowles family as Beyonce and Solange's mother,
and is a business person. You know, She's had lots
of different business ventures with her daughter hair care company.
So I think that was sort of the link to
Meghan's Confessions of a Female Founder podcast. But the conversation
(44:22):
itself was pretty boring. You know, there was a couple
brief mentions of Beyonce, but realistically it was a pretty
boring conversation. I think the biggest takeaway from the interview
actually had nothing to do with Tina Noles. It was
the revelation that Meghan said that she calls their mutual
friend Tyler Perry, who is a big supporter of the Sussexes.
She said that he is the person she calls.
Speaker 6 (44:44):
For business advice.
Speaker 16 (44:45):
So all of these crazy business ventures, you know, American
Revier Orchard, you know, we love Meghan, you know all
of these ventures, it's Tyler Perry allegedly pulling the string.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Okay, Now, freedom of information requests have revealed that British
tax payers are on the hook for about one point
three million dollars in costs related to Prince Harry's failed
legal battle.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
With the Home Office.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
So will Harry be expected to pay or repay the costs?
Speaker 6 (45:09):
Right?
Speaker 16 (45:09):
So the tally now is it's over one point three million.
As you said, that includes the legal action that Harry
took out against the British Home Office over the stripped security.
Of course, when Harry and Meghan left royal duties, they
were no longer entitled to taxpayer funded met police officers
that was removed. Harry was very upset about that decision.
He has cited that as the reason why he refuses
(45:32):
to come back to the UK with his family, and
this has really been an ongoing court battle for over
four years, so he's lost it multiple times on appeals.
It most recently went to the UK Court of Appeals
last month and he lost.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
So therefore he will be expected to.
Speaker 16 (45:46):
Likely reimburse the Home Office and therefore the tax payer
this money. I think that's only fair if he does
repay the one point three million on top of his
own legal fees. It's estimated that he's spent in the
ballpark of about five million dollars. Wow, on this legal battle.
I mean five million dollars. You know, he could have
paid for security with that money. I think it's an
insane decision. But you know, from the taxpayer's point of view,
(46:08):
you know, yeah, they will likely get that money repaid eventually,
but it's not a good look.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
You know, this is Harry.
Speaker 16 (46:13):
He's supposedly misses his homeland, misses his country, and he's.
Speaker 6 (46:18):
Still sort of holding up the court's time.
Speaker 16 (46:20):
You know, it's it's the legal systems, it's all of
these public services that really have better things to do
with their time than here Harry's grievances in his you know,
twenty million dollar mansion.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Like I think they're sick of it.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, absolutely, very well, said our Royal Insider has claimed
that Princess is Beatrice. So Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are
secretly on standby to take on royal duties when William
becomes king. Do we know anything else about, you know,
plans for his cousins, Yes.
Speaker 16 (46:48):
So this is a story. We've talked about it many
times over the years. There's been a lot of speculation
about beaches in Eugenie. I've always firmly believed that they
will eventually be called upon for royal duties. A couple
of reasons why. Firstly, when William becomes king, there is
going to be not enough working morales period.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
There's only eleven at the moment.
Speaker 16 (47:07):
But out of those eleven people currently completing royal duties,
four or five of them are very elderly.
Speaker 13 (47:12):
You know.
Speaker 16 (47:12):
You've got, of course, King Charles and Queen Kimilla, who
are both in their mid seventies. Princess Anne's in her seventies,
but even older than that, you know, we have the
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, you know, who are in
their eighties. Now, you know the Duke of Kent, who's
I think eighty nine. So realistically these are people that
are not going to be part of William's time. When
(47:33):
he becomes king, he's going to need back up. I
think that the logical choice, if you look down the
line of succession, is to go straight to Beatrice. I
think she's always had that sense, if you look at
the way that she's structured her life.
Speaker 6 (47:45):
And her family decisions.
Speaker 16 (47:46):
I think all of that really leads to her thinking
I might be called upon, and I do believe that
she would do it for her cousin. I think Eugenie
as well would be a possible contender, because he's going
to need the support.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
I think.
Speaker 16 (47:58):
You know, of course, William and Kate have three children,
but you know Charlotte, you know Louis and Georgia decades
away from being able to take on royal duties.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
So I do think I would if I'm not a betting.
Speaker 16 (48:09):
Person, but I put a bet on Beatrice, definitely Beatrice
and possibly Eugenie becoming.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Okay, putting out money on it.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Now, a man has been arrested after illegally trespassing on
the grounds of Windsor Castle, not far from Caiton, William's
family home.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
So tell us about this.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Could this latest incident spark kind of a royal security overhaul,
do you think.
Speaker 16 (48:29):
Look, I think that that would definitely be discussion. This
is the second time now in the span of a
year where publicly it's been known that people have trespassed
on to the grounds of Windsor Castle. Of course, Caate
and Will and their family live inside Adelaide Cottage, which
is a regular family home within this sort of confines
of Windsor Castle. That is very much their sanctuary. It's
(48:49):
where they've chosen to raise their family, so of course
you know their security is paramount. This latest incident happened
on Sunday. It was during the daytime, in the afternoon,
a man in his thirties was arrested after breaching sort
of the outer I guess perimeter of Windsor Castle. They
stress it it wasn't as serious as previous incident. Last
year there was another case where I think it was
(49:10):
two men were able to sort of break in close
to Adelaide College.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
They got quite close. They were in the sort of
outer building area. So this is a concern.
Speaker 16 (49:20):
I think that the security of the royal family, whether
it's Prince Harry, you know, in the court room or not,
is always a discussion because at the end of the day,
these are people who live their lives in the public eye.
They're essentially sitting ducks in the sense that we know
where they are. You know, there's a Royal diary, it's
very much easy to track down Royal family members. So
of course their security is important and I hope that
(49:40):
you know this latest incident does certainly, I mean sparkan overhaul.
Whether it changes the way that they run the security
around Windsor Castle unclear, but I do think incidents like
this and the fact they've made a public shows that
you know they are serious about prosecuting people as well.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
Yeah, Riley Sullivan, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (49:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
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