Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Donald Trump weighing in as Iran-Israel conflict continues

The US is making veiled threats towards Iran - and demanding the country's unconditional surrender.

Donald Trump is back in the White House after leaving the G7 summit in Canada early, to deal with escalation in the Middle East.

The US President has spoken with Israel's Prime Minister, and says his administration knows exactly where Iran's supreme leader is.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says the US originally stated it wasn't going to intervene - but that appears to have changed.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchinson US correspondence with us Elo Dan. Hello, Heather,
all right, so does it look to you like the
US is going to get involved here?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It sure does seem that way, doesn't it. I Mean,
it's been crazy over the last couple of hours, with
the President, as you just mentioned, announcing he's considering whether
to to launch these military strikes against Iran, and then
the island Tola just a short time ago, issuing in
a warning on social media telling Israel quote, the battle
is beginning, and Trump is saying his patience is wearing
thin and he's demanding surrender. So he met with his

(00:29):
national security team today, spoke with the Israeli Prime Minister
of Benjamin Yahoo, and it's I mean, despite having said
that we were not going to intervene directly in this conflict,
I mean, it appears that way right now because he
said we have complete and total control of the skies
over Iran.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now he's the guy who's made a big picture hit
of the election about you know, stopping war's wars not
happening under his watch, and now this, how is this
going to go down with his voting base.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't think they'll care one way or the other
it's the same way he said that he would solve
a number of problems on day one of his administration.
You know, you can see what you want when you're
running for election, and once you get into the office,
I mean, people are going to hold you accountable, but
what more can they do? So I think we're gonna
have to kind of wait and see on this. I mean,

(01:17):
the US embassy a short time ago in Israel today
said it's going to be closed for tomorrow through Friday,
and all the employees have been told to shelter in place.
So it's going to be I think interesting to see
what happens in the next few days or even hours.
And you get the feeling though that's something big is
in the works.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, does feel like that. What about I mean, do
you guys, do you guys reflect at all as voters
on previous US attempts to force regime change and how
badly that's gone, and then look at the situation and think,
we haven't got a great track records, should probably let
this one go.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I think a lot of that fades with time. I
think everybody gets angry and upset, and you know, threats
are made and for for the next candidate that's going
to run or the current one that it's in office,
and then when the election time rolls around, you know,
you get the ads that target that the people. But
I think voters are I hate to say forgiving. Maybe
that's the wrong term to use, but I do think

(02:10):
it kind of fades over time, and I don't think
they hold them is accountable as perhaps they should.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Right, So, if this one goes, if there's regime change
in Iran and it goes the way of Iraq, or
it goes the way of Labia, goes away anything else
that the US has been involved in, if it goes
tits up, everybody will just forgive Donald Trump for it.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think I think they'll find a way to deflect
the blame from the Trump administration, which is we know,
I mean, he's he's been very good at and his
base seems to buy into.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, Okay, listen, this new Donald Trump phone. Is this
made in China?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
It is? It is? It's he just announced this. It's
a smartphone. You know, he's saying it's made in the USA.
But now that you know the problem is it was
actually made in China. It's going to cost I think
forty seven forty five, which reflects you know, he's the
forty fifth and forty seventh president right here. And I
mean it's kind of interesting, isn't it that you've got
a president here that some are saying, well, you can't

(03:04):
really be doing this, it's kind of a conflict. But
he is. And he's got three carriers lined up, three
of the big ones over here in the US. And
you know, I mean they're justifying a monthly fee. They're
saying that a lot of the services are going to
tack on may make this kind of more expensive than
he's saying. But the site does say that if you've
got your own phone, you can bring it over to
the network too, And it's just another way for him

(03:26):
or his family to bring in some extra money. I
guess he's.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Monetizing a hard eye. Now, what are the states in
the US where people are more likely to have dark trice?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Nevada, New York, South Dakota, and Texas which contained the
highest percentages of those who are in possession of this.
And they did this study out of Europe over I
think it was twenty years and they found these people
that displayed different levels of dark personality traits, and it
depended on their location and the societal conditions they had.
And it looked at one hundred and eighty three countries.

(03:57):
They found countries like yours that have a lower level
of societal corruption though, and in equity I'm quoting right there,
tended to have fewer of these so called psychopaths than
we do over here in this part of the world.
So nice job there.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
What then, did they shed any light on, you know,
what it is that breeds a psychopath? Is it the inequity?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's the inequity right now, they're saying, you know, it's
living conditions, and it's the percentage of population that just
have these dark traits that are are embedded in our
DNA as we're born too. So a lot of it is,
I think you know who you are when you're born,
and a lot of it is is where you grow
up in the conditions that you're surrounded by.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
All right, Dan, thanks very much, Dan Mitchenson, you as correspondent.
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