Jason Walls: Newstalk ZB political editor on Prime Minister Luxon responding to Donald Trump's film production statement

The Prime Minister says it's too early to understand the potential impact of tariffs on New Zealand films. 

Donald Trump has most recently written he'd like100 percent tariffs on all movies produced outside the US. 

Chris Luxon says he's seen the social media post, but we'll need to know a lot more.

Newstalk ZB political editor Jason Walls says Chris Luxon has expressed interest in getting more Bollywood productions to come to New Zealand.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Wall's political editor at News Talk zibers with with
us Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jason, Hello, Hell, how are y?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
I'm well? Thank you? How much trouble Zerica in?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, we'll have to remain see there were questions from
TV and ZAD political editor Mikey Sherman. So I would
imagine in about an hour and ten minutes time she'll
have some of the details. But you know, from what
we heard from the Prime minister, and as I understand
that you played a clip before, he seemed quote pretty
relaxed about it, as he said a number of times.
So we'll have to see how damaging it is. Tomorrow

(00:28):
we'll be doing at We've got the caucus run where
we talk to the lacks of Erica and others, so
we'll see what her response is. But yeah, first blush
of it, it's probably a distraction that the Prime Minister
doesn't want.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I mean, he's probably relaxed about it, Jason, because I
don't know the detail. We only know as much as
we've heard in the post cabinet press conference. But if
at this moment it's a theoretical problem, isn't it. She
sent some emails, but have they been hacked? Have they
been exploited. Probably not, and unless they have, it's just theoretical. Well,
it comes down to.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
The Cabinet Manual and it technically says on a number
of places that you can only do various different things
on government official devices, and it does. And I think
there will be a connection made to Hillary Clinton back
in twenty sixteen, and that either email saga there or
there could be some connection made. But yeah, well we'll
have to see. The thing that came out for me.
As I was listening to is Luxon kept talking about

(01:17):
how she couldn't get her settings right, and I thought,
good God, the crown. Yeah, well she's a minister of
the crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
She couldn't give the settings rightly.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
No, I can't get you. I don't know how to
do printing at work yet. And I've been in this
office for how long have I been here, Laura? Six
years now, I've been back for that long. Yeah, I
can't work the printers, can you.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well? I actually sat all the summer sat next to
the printer that you're is in the z B office,
and I would say it is it can smell fear.
If you need something really quickly, it's not going to
Premier for you.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I think we all understand. We can understand. I don't
really understand how Gmail fixed her printed problem, but we
understand that fundamental problem. Hey, so we've got some people
in India right now to try and kick off the negotiations.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's what the Prime Minister was talking about
post cab today. It seemed to be the thrust of
what he was talking about. Him and Todd McClay. But
the Prime Minister likes to call him Trade McLay, which
is very fitting given that he is the Trade minister.
So there's somebody right now over in India, and there's
they've started to kick off these negotiations. But I'll tell
you what I mean, we all knew that was coming.

(02:17):
It's not really all that exciting. The exciting thing for
me is when the journalist started asking about these Trump
tariffs on movies produced in foreign land. You might have
seen this truth social post where he said, we want
more movies made in America again, which was news to me.
I thought they were all made in America, but clearly not.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Now Chris Luck Jason stopped talking right now, have you
not watched The Lord of the Rings?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Wait, tell me more about the Lord of the Rings.
You know where that except to me, there are some
movies media. Well anyway, maybe my ignorance was a little
bit naive on that because obviously a big center of
the world is Bollywood. Now, when the Prime Minister was
over in India, he was really talking up New Zealand's
movie production sector. Then he said this.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Which I just think is truly world class. You know,
I've been advocating for it. And then dear, for that
exact same reason, what would it take to get more
Bollywood productions here in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So clearly the Prime Minister wants to pivot to Bollywood
and get a few more Kiwi movies made for that market.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, they have made movies here in New Zealand
and the last twenty years or so, and my question
to them was what else would it take for you
to do more productions here in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And as we see these Trump tariffs come into effect,
we're going to see a lot more of this, these
pivoting to other countries.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Tell me about this poll, I'm surprised that Pete that
that a majority of us want to see man and
woman defined in legislation are you, Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, I honestly, no, I'm not. I thought that these
numbers were about right. I mean, you kind of get
a skewed view of things if you read various different
people talking about it. But basically, this is a curier
pole into Winston Peters's bill that wants to define a
woman as an adult human biological female. So so it
was courreier that it was Family First that did this polling,

(03:59):
fifty two percent of us support this bill, with twenty
nine percent of us opposed and nineteen percent.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And sure, and obviously higher amongst you know, the governing
parties who leaned to the right, and then not so
much you know, in the opposition parties that leans to
the left. But why I'm surprised, Jason's because I didn't
think that it would have had the cut through, that
kind of cut through to have fifty two percent wanting it.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It was about well, I mean, you can't really get
away from a question like this. I mean, it's been reported,
it was reported quite widely. I was overseas when it happened.
I was sunning myself on the beach and mold Beeves,
and I was reading about this, a bill that Winston
Peters has put into the ballot, so clearly I had
some sort of cut through if it's getting to me,
although I am a bit of a political tragic on
the other side of the world, but it's something that

(04:40):
a lot of people have been thinking about for some time.
Clearly there were fifteen one hundred. A random selection of
fifteen thousand New Zealand phone numbers was used in this
as the sample section of tould interesting.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Thank you, Jason, appreciate it Jason Wall's News Talks it
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