Jonathan Kearsley: US correspondent on Taylor Swift announcing her engagement to Travis Kelce

It's a big day for Swifties - as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement.

The multi-Grammy winner and NFL star took to social media this morning, sharing photos of the proposal.

US correspondent Jonathan Kearsley says this story interrupted the US Open coverage - and even made its way into President Trump's cabinet meeting.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance, peace of mind for
New Zealand business Jonathan Cares.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The US correspondence with US Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Has the world ended, Heather? It is?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I just lost you a bit there, but my word,
the United States is, and much of the rest of
the world. I think we can call today Swift Kelsey Day.
Is the wedding bells.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Have been set.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
The two year romance is heading down the aisles.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Everybody can get excited.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
There's an album out and there's a wedding coming out.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's all happening for Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know what, I knew that you'd be into this.
How much airtime is getting. There's this getting in the US.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's dominating airtime and it dominated right across all facets.
There was the US Open Tennis was taking place. As
she took to social media to make the announcement. The
commentary was interrupted to declare that Taylor Swift was engaged.
Television news stations broke into a momentary excitement TM website
and their newsroom went into essential meltown, and likewise, in

(01:04):
our newsroom, we jumped full into gear to get all
into the Swift Kelsey action. As She essentially announced the
world that yes, it is happening at even interrupted Donald
Trump's marathon four hour a cabinet meeting where he was
asked himself for his own views. I know that your
Prime minister has opened up New Zealand's doors, opened up
the borders and said come on in, have the wedding,

(01:24):
have the honeymoon there. Maybe if it's not the United
States or Europe or New Zealand or Australia, who knows
where it could be. But if it is in New Zealand,
maybe they just renamed the country swift Kelsey for a week,
a bit of tourism plug.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
For the nation.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Look, we'll take all the ideas. I mean, I hate
that idea, but you know, all ideas are welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thank you, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
What did we get out of this marathon cabinet meeting
four hours?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
What we got was a lot of praise from Donald
Trump's cabinet secretary.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
So, I mean it was four hours. They were all
in the room together at the White House.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
The press were in there for about three hours and
seventeen minutes of it, I think, And it took probably
more than two and a half hours for him to
get around each and every one of his respective secretaries,
and he.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Does this every single time.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
And essentially what they spend these five or ten minutes
each each heaping praise on him and on his leadership
in terms of substance, Well, what we got out of
it with some stuff on Russia and Ukraine, some expressions
of frustration with Vladimir Putin, particularly around Moscow's criticisms and
attacks on Vladimir Zelenski. He used the BS word to

(02:31):
describe that what he said was posturing. Clearly he is frustrated.
It is now almost two weeks since that summit in
Anchorage in Alaska. He wants this conflict to come to
an end. He said he could resolve it in a day.
And maybe, just maybe he's realizing he can't trust Vladimir
Putin as far as he can throw it.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
This business about of Vladimir doesn't want to meet with
Vladimir because he doesn't like Vladimir. That sounds like Trump
is already making excuses for Putin, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, look it does, because what he wants is these
two leaders to sit around table first, because it seems
as though that was one of the strictest conditions post
anchorage that the two leaders would meet and then maybe
he would come into play after those two men. Now,
the Kremlin essentially has dodged every single element of the
question about whether this will actually take place, saying that

(03:18):
talks will continue out high range and they're working to
make the conditions right and saying what the Kremlin normally
says in these circumstances. You've also got to try and
understand the idea that the Kremlin essentially half offered an
invite for Voladimir Zelenski to go to Moscow.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, that's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
So clearly there is very little movement in terms of
these two leaders meeting. Now, if there's not movement in
terms of those two leaders meeting, well where is their
movement in terms of peace?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And then what is Donald Trump's next move?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Because he's essentially seen himself as a peace maker, he
wants a Nobel Peace Prize, he wants the feather and
his cap as having resolved this conflict.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
It is far from resolved.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
And essentially, I think what you're seeing is Vladimir Putin
is playing a very long form game chess, as he
has long always done, particularly with Donald Trump and particularly
now with this war.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
In ukrame very much so, Jonathan, good to talk to you,
Thank you so much, and congratulations on the Teleswift News today.
Jonathan Kurzley how us corresponding.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
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