Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on the growing concerns around the US-Iran conflict

The world could pay a high price for the US launching war on Iran.

Global shipping's in turmoil as Donald Trump's naval blockade in creases uncertainty - although he's hinting peace talks could resume.

The International Monetary Fund's warning a prolonged conflict could tilt the global economy towards recession. 

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson unpacked the concerns further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Michison, US correspondent, is with US.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello Dan, Hello Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Democrats serious about wanting to remove Donald Trump from office?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, I think you know they're going to They're going
to try, but I don't think it's it's going to
be And this is under the twenty fifth Amendment right now,
saying that he is mentally unfit. But I mean, this
is going to get some headlines. I think it's going
to stay in the new cycle for a bit, and
then I think it's going to fade away. It's unlikely
this would be successful. But you've got this panel that
says they would call physicians and some high ranking executive

(00:31):
officials appointed by Congression leaders from both parties, and they
said that after what he wrote about Iran and the
whole civilization Will Diet and I on that social media
post that we had talked about a couple of weeks ago,
they think that he is incoherent and that basically he's
just not fit to be in the White House at
this point, right.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
No one's missing the irony here, are we That they
had someone who definitely, absolutely was incoherent and unable to
be in the White House and they protected him for years.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, yes, yeah, there was. There was a call to
also remove you might remember towards the end of his term,
Joe Biden from office under you know, under the same
you know, the same circumstances under the twenty fifth Amendment,
and that didn't really get off the grounds. As we know,
they just didn't decide to vote for him again.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I was talking to somebody about this this morning, Dan,
because it occurred to me last night that actually, all
of this chat about Donald Trump being mental may in
fact be playing to the US's advantage at the moment,
because it might be spooking a run, Like if he
truly is as mental as people say he is, then
he's completely unpredictable, which means that a run needs to

(01:41):
wrap this up as quickly as possible, don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I mean it's you bring up a good point
right here that there's two things that I can say
on that. First of all, we just heard that the
President says this is going to be wrapped up sooner
rather than later. I don't know if everybody agrees with that,
because even though the Vice President advance is expected to
to lead a second round of these talks in the
next couple of days, there's this time frame between US

(02:05):
and Iran. Ron wants a five year timeline for the
suspension of uranium enrichment, but the US wants a twenty
year agreement, and that's something that they're just not willing
to budge on at this moment. Meanwhile, you've got Republicans
over here that say, we've got a big problem this year.
Trump just doesn't seem to care about the GOP and
it's causing a lot of concerns with the midterm elections
coming up because of everything he's saying and doing. The

(02:28):
most recent and he even had people from his own
party that went against this was when he posted that
picture of him that he said was a doctor, but
everybody else was saying was Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now, apparently Joe Biden wanted Gritch and Whitner and didn't
want to have Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, this is really interesting too. He wanted the governor
Whitner to be his VP. He had to choose Vice
President Kamala Harris. This came out from an article in
the Atlantic and they profiled the potential twenty eight presidential candidate,
and they said that Biden had considered Whitmer for some time,
really liked her, it was going to be the running mate,

(03:06):
and then got some pushback and said, you know what,
we're going to have to go with Harris, especially after
the Black Lives Matter protests. And Whittmer. Meanwhile, you know,
still was a good soldier, still campaigned happily for the pair,
didn't waiver in her support for Biden until he officially
dropped out of the presidential election.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That was bad advice, it turns out, Dan, Thank you
very much, appreciate it. Dan Mitchenson, you as correspondent. For
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