Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on Robert F Kennedy Jr's swearing in as Health Secretary, Trumps new tariffs, and Valentines Day

Donald Trump has announced more tariffs, and Robert F Kennedy Jr has been sworn in as Health Secretary – what will he do with his new powers?

It’s Valentine's Day! Are men more romantic than women?

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson joins the show.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchison joins me from the United States of America
with the time at twenty to five.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello Dan, Hello Andrew.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
We're just talking about more tariffs. Tariffs seem to be
a daily thing with you guys.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, they do, don't they. And as you mentioned, the
President today had a meeting with the Prime Minister of
India and had offered to talk about easing some of
those tariffs and buy more US oil gas and concessions
that may have sort of postponed or pushed back a
trade war. But it doesn't look like they're going to
do that. Like you said, it's going to be sort

(00:31):
of a tit for tat situation. And he's saying this
right as the Prime minister right there.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Here is a big thing, he says across the board
for those people who have trade imbalances. He's smiling. He's
got the Indian prime minister there, they're smiling, and basically
he nails India right there right next to him.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's that seems to be the way he's
going with a lot of leaders these days. And then
of course he brought up the migrant situation. You know,
more than seven hundred thousand from me you're here in
the US illegally. And that's the third that most that
we have behind Mexico and l Salvador. And the Prime
Minister said, well, okay, anybody that's here in the US illegally,
you're going to be taken back. And President Trump said,

(01:11):
you know what, we're promising a mass deportation. It's kind
of the things you would think that they would discuss
maybe behind closed doors and then maybe a spokesperson would
release after the meeting. But to have a lot of
this sort of right there in the public, with the
cameras going live is just to it makes it for
very a very awkward situation.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, but it's also shocking or and that's his style,
and then they'll sort it out later, you know. And
that's that's the way. That's why so many of the
initiatives don't actually happen, because it's like, oh, yeah, there's
some there's some fine print to actually deal with here,
Sorry about that, yeah soon. Now. Robert F. Kennedy, Junr.
Has been sworn in as Health Secretary.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, and you know, he he's one of the President's
most controversial cabinet picks. He's going to oversee a lot
of our health agencies here. He's going to have eighty
thousand employees, a trillion dollar budget, a lot of people.
Both sides of the hour a publican Democrats had questioned
his health claims about vaccines. No Democrats backed them, and
only former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the only

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Republican to vote against him. But you know, he said
that I promised the President that if I was confirmed,
I'm going to do everything in my power to put
the health of Americans back on track. But it's kind
of hard seeing him be fair minded about this when
he's had such an extreme view and such a controversial
view about vaccines for so long.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wait to see responsibility can cause changes. Now, I am
talking to my overseas correspondent about love. Now, Am I
talking about Valentine's Day and the experts saying that men
may be more romantic than women? Am I really doing
this right now?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well? You are? I mean, it's it's Valentine's Day already
over there. We still have a few hours before it's
Valentine's Day over here, and they are saying that, according
to behavioral and brain sciences, that romantic relationships are more
central to men's well being than women. And they're saying that,
you know, in popular culture that women prioritize romantic relationships
more than guys, although they're finding that evidence paints kind

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of this different picture, and they're finding that research, you know,
the men on average relying more on their romantic partners
for emotional support and intimacy, and single men are more
likely than single women to search for a partner and
they're more likely to sort of I think, idealize romantic connections. Now,
can I just say this before anybody else goes off?
Let us remember romance changes over time. So when you're dating,

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flowers in a week and get away may seem like
a huge romantic gesture, But as you get older and
you're married, you know, helping with the kids, or doing
laundry or cleaning the house, fixing dinner maybe just as
appreciated as you know, jewelry or a weekend getaway too.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Absolutely, it's a team, and it's team with yes, and
you think his teammates. And I thank you Dan Minchs
and all the very best and happy Valentine's Day to you.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
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