Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Hurricane Beryl rising in the Caribbean

Hurricane Beryl is making its presence known in the Caribbean. 

CNN reports at least three people were killed when it tipped through the Windward Islands earlier this week, and it’s currently hurtling across open waters nearing Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. 

Newstalk ZB US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that it's the earliest category five hurricane to rise up in the Caribbean. 

He says it has top wind speeds of 265 kilometres an hour and could threaten Texas in the coming days.  

A hurricane warning is in effect for Jamaica and a hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It' st outside. Richard Arnold, good morning, Hey Mike. So
dogget I'd never heard of but he wants them gone.
It's all on, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett has become the first in his
party to openly call for Joe Biden to step down
as president. Other people are muttering things in private, but
he has gone public. He says Biden should quote make
the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. That is echoed
pretty much by Democrat Might Quickly of Illinois, who said
this in an interview a short time ago.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
He has to be honest with himself. This is a
decision he's going to have to make. His decision not
only impacts who's going to serve in the White House
the next four years, but who's going to serve in
the Senate, who's going to serve in the House, and
or have implications for decades to come.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Democratic governors are asking for a meeting at the White
House after Biden's disasked for US debate performance. That meeting
could happen as soon as tomorrow. A new poll is
just out from CNN today. That survey indicates that three
quarters of usfotters say the Dems would have a better
chance of retaining the presidency this time around with someone
other than Biden at the top of the ticket. In

(01:04):
a head to head match up, the poll has Trump
leading Biden by forty nine percent to forty three When
they look at other possible Democratic choices. Vice President Kamala
Harris is within the margin of era with forty five
percent behind Trump on forty seven. Other leading Democrats, including
California Governor Gavin Newsom, Transport Secretary Pete Boodhajege, and Michigan

(01:25):
Governor Gritchen Whitmer, a forty five points behind Trump. Meantime,
veteran Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says people close to Biden
now say his decline has accelerated since the start of
this year. They cite fifteen to twenty occasions in the
past year and a half when the President has appeared
as confused as he did during the debate. Meantime, there
are no signs that Biden is willing to step aside.

(01:49):
He just appeared at a climate event where he introduced
new rules to protect workers from extreme heat and said
of climate change. The event's also posed serious threats to
our nation's transportation system, where a power greup foreigns, fisheries
and forests. Yeah, things are going on right in our
lives being lost to Hurricane Beryl, which is the earliest
Category five hurricane ever to rise up in the Gribbean

(02:11):
and has top wind speeds of two hundred and sixty
five kilometers an hour two hundred and sixty five k's
and it could threaten Texas within the coming days. Biden
has just agreed to do an extended media interview with
American ABC and host George stephanopolis how much a single
interview can change opinions question mark. New York Times opinion

(02:31):
writer More Endowed headlined her piece on this political campaign
as the ghastly versus the ghostly on the Trump front,
the partisan Supreme Court because declared in their latest opinion
that a president has immunity from criminal prosecution for official
actions that seemed designed to help Trump. If Nixon had
this Supreme Court back in his day, at the time

(02:52):
of Watergate, he could have stuck around forever, as he
told interviewer David Frost back in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So what, in a sense you're saying is that There
are certain situations, and the Houston Plan of that part
of it was one of them where the president can
decide that it's in the best interests in the nation
or something and do something illegal. Well, when the president
does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, King Richard Nixon. Now, the president above the law
has a role equivalent to role to you, suggests the
dissenting Supreme Court Justice Sonya son Too Mayor, who raised
some pretty shocking possibilities in her dissent. If a president
now quote orders an Avy Seal Team six to assassinate
a political rival, immune, organizes a military coup to hold
on to power, immune, takes a bribe in exchange for pardon,

(03:43):
immune immune immune immune end quote, that's a dissenting Supreme
Court justice writing there. Finally, Trump advisor Steve Bannon was
just sent off to jail for four months. Another Trump aide,
Peter Navarro, also is in the clink right now. Trump
lawyer Rudy Giuliani today was disbarred in you you are
for repeatedly lying about Trump's selection losses. So that's some
of the gang. While Trump now has escalated his threat

(04:05):
to prosecute political opponents calling for the jailing of President Biden,
Vice President Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell Republican and Chuck Schumer, Democrat,
and his own former deputy, Mike Pence. He also claims
that Liz Cheney, the former Republican Party congress member and
top Republican Party official, is quote guilty of treason and
suggests there should be televised military tribunals. Channey has replied

(04:31):
that Trump is quote not a stable ad off is
at times a will and the therapist good stuffs.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
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