From the skying in Center. This is Paul Murray, live, fresh off the plane, straight into the man cave.
So good to be back here in the greatest country in the world after having a bit of fun in the United States. Thank you so much to Danika, to Georgio, and to Steve Pryce Sporer.
For filling in.
We're back to normal from tonight, including a great conversation with Meegan Kelly just moments away.
All right, a couple of things. Time for rud to pack his bags. I'll tell you why, in the exact moment when I made that decision. I'll get to it in a second.
Surprise, surprise, elbow is still sinking in the polls no matter what happens around the world, and it's getting worse. And I'll tell you which of the remaining state labor governments looks like it's about to get the biscuit more in a.
Moment or two time.
But first and most importantly, thank you to so many people who were so kind about everything that we did over in the States. At a ball all the time. You know how much I love the story. You know how much I love the country. Here's some of the behind the scenes stuff for those of you who like to see what happens when we were setting up on a rooftop in Dallas, all the way through to the fun that we had in Cowtown, and then of course once we made our way towards.
Washington, DC.
Was the experience of a career and just a real life highlight. Thanks to everyone involved, both here and behind the scenes, but also thank you for watching in the numbers that you did.
I still am bold over.
That one of the editorials that we did from there's got almost six million people on YouTube. Unbelievable stuff. But a couple of things I wanted to mention about all of this, which is that there has of course been a little bit more news since Donald Trump won about a week ago, and it is all now to who he's going to surround himself with. Now a bloke who did serve in the military, has got multiple Bronze Stars for courage, has.
Been nominated as his defense secretary.
But he's also and more famously known as a host on Fox News, which of course has got left wing media going core razy. Little Marco Rubio will be the chief diplomat that'll be announced the next couple of days, and the big one today is that Elon Muskin Ramaswami are going to get together and they are going to kind of live out the right wing dream, which is to truly take the prunes to a federal budget.
Now, remember, the US is.
More than thirty trillion dollars in debt. Seven trillion dollars is how much they spend each and every year, and Republicans believe that there is a huge amount of fat to cut. Now, the reality is that that is probably very true. But when you have two people who haven't worked in government before, who've been very aggressive in the way that they have dealt with business and yes, turn businesses around, a big way they have done is to
sack an awful lot of people. So, on the one hand, Trump is absolutely going to want to help dismantle much of the deep state, get rid of some of the dead wood that have always thought that they can outlive a president. So it doesn't matter whether you try or not.
But of course, let's say a million people got the biscuit. Well, that's a million people who go onto the unemployment cues, and then Donald Trump wouldn't want that either because that will end up having its issues when it comes to how his presidency will be judged.
But I mentioned all of this not.
To continue the glow of the past week, but to remind you that while Donald Trump won the election, he's still not the president yet. In fact, we have to wait until January twenty for that to happen. So let's check in on the corpse that's currently occupying the office. No, not the one who was falling up the stairs within the first fifty days of becoming president by the way back in twenty twenty one.
No, this here he was today. Clear question, weird answer, roll the tape.
President Biden, do you think that you can cut a hostage deal by the end of your term?
Thank you? The headway camera behind.
You, right, thank you all.
Wow, they get an upgrade on January twenty. But there's a lot of time between now and January twenty. And that's the guy who's in charge, still in the United States. As for the person who works side by side with him as the co pilot and the plane that was heading in the wrong direction, seventy five percent of Americans saying that's the case. What about the details we're learning about just how much money first of this campaign had and how they spent it.
Peddled it up against the wall.
There.
I say they raised more than a billion, they spent a billion and even then they ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Talk to Megan Kelly in a second. Here's some of the stuff they spent their money on.
She reportedly paid five million dollars to Meghan V. Stallion to perform at one of her rallies. Five million dollars. And the reason she did that is because Kamala Harris could get no crowds.
Meghan Kelly on the show tonight, brom A Bishop and Stephen Connery.
It is all heavy hitters, It is all a listers.
It is all as you have come to expect from this time of night, each and every night here on Sky News. Now, one question I've received plenty before the election, plenty after the election, is well, could a Trump style thing happen here?
Not? Really? Let me explain why so. Yes.
The next battle that we turn our attention to is the battle between the Prime Minister and the alternativeme Minister. The polls right now very good for the LP, the Liberal National Party, great for Dutton in particular when it comes to personal issues.
We'll get to those in a moment or two time. But people who.
Say that, well, what about all of the workers that changed and the demographics that changed. Surely if that happens here, then a similar result will take place. Yeah kind of let me explain and I will not get too boring here, but I'll try and just explain in big overview chunks for you. Fox News did a great thing with the Associated Press called voter Analytics. This is when they spoke to more than one hundred and fifteen thousand people around
the country. This is like the biggest possible poll short of an election, and it shows that clearly under twenty five thousand and over one hundred thousand dollars that's what Harris won. Everything in between that is what Trump won. Now,
how does that play out in Australia? So, as you can see in those brackets, it goes twelve percent who earn under twenty five thousand, then twenty percent who earn between twenty five and fifty and another twenty between fifty and seventy five thousand, and almost another two twenty percent between seventy five thousand and ninety nine thousand. So you can basically say what the best part of fifty seven sixty percent of people sit in that middle band. Well,
in Australia fourteen percent of workers. Now again, workers don't automatically equal voters. Why because we can work under the age of eighteen. But this is the best numbers I can get, and they're all sort of in the roundabout space. That's fourteen percent, that's higher than the American number. But then when you have a look at twenty three plus twenty plus eighteen, we're basically in the same zone of the high fifties to almost sixty percent of people between
twenty five and one hundred thousand dollars. So, yes, if that middle band of people, if middle Australia decided to go from one side to the other, you would win an election, all right. Also, a couple of people a saying, well, what about education. Now, those who have a college degree or went to university, it's forty four percent of the population and they voted majority for Harris. Majority of the
population though fifty six percent have no college degree. So how does that compare to say Australia, We're basically it's the same in terms of how much people earn. Well, what about people who've actually gone to university. Well, actually it's a lower number than the United States. It's forty four percent in the United States that have gone to university or have a degree. In this country, it's thirty
six percent of workers. That said, why does this not automatically say great, people who haven't been to UNI earning between twenty five and one hundred thousand dollars, Paul, that's the sweet spot. That's how Dutton wins the next election. Well, of course, the difference is that we don't vote across an entire state. Instead, we vote in our suburbs in electorates that generally speaking take up one or two major
council areas. And here's a list of a bunch of council areas in Australia that have higher rates of going to university than say, in places like the United States. Now, if you know these locations, you know that some of them are either teal seats or currently existing liberal seats.
Some of the other examples about high education also sits within And obviously I don't suggest that just because you went to university it's a better education, but you understand what I mean the bit of paper, A lot of these things also sit within Teal seats as well, So that's why it's not quite as easy to if you build the coalition that Trump built, if you're Peter Dutton, then you would be able to win the next federal election.
But without doubt, the biggest issue as to why any Australian politician can't replicate what an American politician does is, firstly, it's not winner take all.
If you win the majority of people in.
The state, you take all of the seats or the delegates to the electoral college. And of course in their system there's no preferences, so it's first past the post. So you end up with somebody winning forty five percent of the vote defeating somebody who won forty two percent of the vote, and a whole collection of other people,
well they decided to vote for minor parties. In Australia, we've got people like One Nation from the center right, who of course anywhere on poles between eight and ten percent. Their preferences do determine elections. If the majority of One Nation supporters back the LNP, the Liberal and National Party win an election twenty nineteen. If they split it around, guess what, Just like in twenty twenty two, the Liberal
and National Party loses. As for the Teals, they of course too own, will not own, but have multiple seats, and of course you need seventy six seats to win the Liberal Party to actually get there. And yes they might be able to move these coalitions that Trump was able to do. They've got to blast the Teals away fingers crossed.
It happens. And of course there's the idiot Greens.
He sit anywhere between ten and fifteen percent of the vote, no matter how hard they try to currently underperform. And of all of the people that are currently trying to play American politics, is it Dutton?
No? Is it Albo?
No?
Is it Pauline Hansen?
No?
Is it a Teal? No, it's a Green.
Because the Greens are out there to make abortion an issue again.
It ain't an issue anywhere. Look what happened in the Queensland election. Benow the Greens.
They're the ones, dare I say playing the reverse Trumpian politics. But that's why you can't have generally speaking, what happens in the United States happening here as much as we would like it too, sometimes as much as we would like it too. Now, unsurprising the upgrade albow is in a world of trouble every single day. No matter how he flies or how far at the front or on his own plane, he is heading in the wrong direction. Since I've been a way, whole collection of polls have
come out. Firstly, News poll voters are backing the Coalition. I have a labor to deal with cost of living, cost of living number one issue. Sometimes these things can get overly complicated, or we over complicate them, why because we've got to talk about something every single night, every single week, every single month. But the reality is that
the next election will be about cost of living. And if the majority of people think that the Coalition can do a better job than Labor, which I think they can because in part of what Labour promised and then of course under livered, well, then the Coalition is on a very good path towards victory, unless, of course, the
teals and all the rest of it takes place. Meantime, further dig into news Pold shows Peter Dutton's personal numbers getting stronger and stronger and stronger as the airbus albow, the upgrade elbow thing is just really punching him about and it's all of his own doing. Meantime, what about the approval ratings This one from the Resolve poll, and it shows here that the approval ratings Anthony Aberzi has only thirty seven percent of people who think he's doing
a good or a very good job. Peter Dutton has forty five percent of people. Conversely, those who think that you're doing a poor or a very poor job, fifty one percent of the country now thinks that about Anthony Albanesi.
So all of the oh, Dutton's unelectable.
Duton's unelectable if you're paying attention, just like it's not a giant surprise that the most unpopular vice president in modern history was trying to pretend to be different than the government that she has already been a part of. Whilst seventy five percent of Americans so they're.
Headed in a wrong direction right now.
In Australia, it is more than fifty percent of people who' say we're on the wrong track. It's more than fifty percent who say the Prime Minister is doing a poor or a very poor job. It's now close to, if not over, fifty percent who believe that the coalition is going to do a better job on that number one issue, so surprise, surprise, despite all the chatting that happens between now and the election, if it's close, if it's competitive,
that's the reason. And just like the Democrats in the United States, when a government gets itself in a world of trouble, priorities are what matter. What about the story today that while they took fifteen hundred dollars off ten million workers at the height of the cost of living crisis just twelve months ago, this federal government has tried to lock in the number of people who are working for it.
Thus we'll vote for it.
When the yuga booger campaign about the Liberal Party is going to cut public servants total cost five b four billion dollars, this mob have added five billion dollars to the total wagers bill of the public service. And of course when it comes to immigration, we know that this government will it. It doesn't even kind of slow walk the walk they told us at the end of last year. I know we're definitely doing to do cutting immigration. Guess
what record highs, record highs. And again these are not far right wing corners of the internet you need to special access code to get into This is all right in the middle. Everyone can see this stuff. And again it's not because of any issues with people who.
Come home from somewhere else. Again, it's about priorities.
So at a time when you are financially in the whole, there's spending five billion dollars extra in public servants at a time when you're in the hole, they're adding to the cure of people that are trying to get our services or buy a house.
Compete with your kids.
But what's the priority of the government our social media And it's not just about kids as staying off at guess what the misinformation bill, the censoring the Internet bill. It is beginning to die a slow death now for the path of this thing to make it through, you need all of the Labor Party centertors to vote for it. Of course, if you cross the floor, we.
Know what they do to you. You need all of the Greens.
They will vote for it because it's a back to a wave of trying to shut down conversations like the one we're having right now. Remember that's their true dream, is to try to blow us off the air and try and take us down from the Internet. That's the real game here. For Get all this misinformation garbage. It's about anyone who is providing resistance to what they are trying to do, they will deem as being missile disinformation.
So then of course you need a crossbach. Jackie Lamby haven't heard anything from her, but remember she was out and about and screaming about Elon musk Well, the Senator that she brought with her Tammy Tyrrel. She has now said she is voting no, and amazingly today door Matt Dave Pocock also came out today and said no, censoring the Internet will not happen under his vote. Ironically, he
used social media to make the point. I've listened to the experts and to people in the Act and I'll be opposing the Combating Misinformation Dissormation.
Bill unless major changes are made to the legislation other stands. I don't believe it takes the right approach to dealing with misinformation.
This was a bad idea when it was first suggested. It was a dog of a piece of legislation last year. They have done nothing, nothing but put a new collar on it this time. And good to see even the people that we would disagree with on ninety nine and a half percent of things can actually see what this really is about. This is not about anything other than shutting down debate. The government doesn't like the government doesn't
get to decide what the truth is. All right, facts, figures, data, and if you can back it up, then welcome to the conversation. You make stuff up, okay, cool, but it shouldn't be against the law. You should simply be ignored by people.
Who believe you're not to be telling the truth.
It's why over the past few years I've really tried to put a lot of effort into showing you the working. Remember like the old high school teacher used to tell you, show working, show working. That's why I show you the data, to show you the information. And yes, be dollop of opinion on top of it, because otherwise the government deciding what's the police?
No, thank you.
Now, Victoria's Premier justinto Allen world of trouble. There is a crazy polog get to in a moment or two time. Now American Poles. I will never mention them again. Right we all know why. Australian Poles pretty close okay, pretty close and.
Within the zone.
All right, So if they tell us it's tight, you actually believe it's tight as opposed to the garbage it was being served up in America anyway, just into Allen. So she has decided that she is going to continue to bankrupt the state along with Tim Pallas. Even lefty websites run by academics called The Conversation says, eye watering spending is the type of thing that's happening inside the Victorian budget, as well as, of course the outrageous and
offensive debt that is being built up. Well, there's one group of people that the Victorian government draws a line under about whether or not they are going to pay them and pay them properly.
And that is the police force. Now this is again maddening.
Well, you can't automatically click and drag everything that's happening in other people's politics in other.
Parts of the world.
Safety issues in London, they change the government. Safety issues in the United States, they change the president. Safety issues in and around Victoria, they will do the same. And good on the police there who yes, went too far in COVID it's a pro cops show. So the many and women of the police force, the one whose lives are in danger each and every day, we admire them and we believe that they should be paid every cent that they ask for, every cent that they ask for.
So there's some industrial action that's taking place right now. And among that industrial action is police officers are writing little slogans very specific against the Labor Party and they are doing so on the police vehicles. And what about this one that was spotted by an eagle I who sent it to news dot com dot IU which says learn self defense because we might be a little while.
Before we actually get to you.
That is unbelievable now as opposed to dealing with this situation, finding the money, paying them properly, honoring the police, thanking them from their service, helping them when they help others. Nope, Allen Government's not moving, not moving whatsoever, because this is the one union that they are willing to ignore, that being the police officers union, because sometimes a little bit too right wing, sometimes it points out too many problems when it comes to law and order.
No, Instead, the.
Priority of the Victorian government today was a new poly police officer, a new body that will be set up to police the behavior of Victorian politicians. People who are honored will be paid a very small fortune. But does this surprise you? But Interestingly, the government is in a
world of trouble. According to the latest polling, which is coming out via this time, that far right wing newspaper, the Age The Resolve Political Monitor has shown that as the preferred premiere, John Pascudo, I know it's not that, but I say it anyway, is currently the preferred premier. Now big asceristics of this. Yes, he's thirty percent, she's twenty nine percent. See the gray that's undecided. Okay, so the most popular person in the race right now is
undecided as sitting at about forty one percent. Pardon me, forty one percent. I got about eighteen times on the plane today. I apologize, but Row fifty seven was amazing. Now no upgrades from Olbow for US now. Meantime, in terms of the actual primary vote, the LNP is now at thirty eight. Remember, if they have a forty in front of it, they are going to win an election, even the crazy one that's taking place in Victoria right now.
So watch this space, watch this place, because that may well be a change coming to Victoria, and not a moment too soon. Although, like anyone else, has been paying close attention to the liberal leader there, I am as surprised as you are.
Yes, don't know is number one?
Then the Liberal leader, then the labor leader by a point, but still a couple of things worth mentioning. Now, anywhere you go in the world these days, you sort of expect that you'll be able to plug your phone into a car, And what used to be the car radio is now, of course, an electronic screen that will on many occasions take you to your phone of choices operating
s to say, the Apple Car Play. I'm an Apple head, as you may will have worked out from now, so I like that all of the apps and radio and all the rest of it, I can pull it up on a screen there drive around. Well, guess what, GM and the United States are set no more. They will no longer be putting in either the Google system for androids or Apple Play White because they want to have
control over what you listen to in the car. And how so an interesting move from the old fashioned radio, which of course is great for that existing industry, to the plug in version, which means you're able to use your phone. To now the third version, which is going to be the Yes, I think technically you're going to be able to use your phone, but it's not going to be the automatic loading that it currently is because they want you to use their system because everyone must
reinvent the wheel. And speaking of what about a device that has four of them? Shopping trolleys, we all know what it's like to have a rogue one when for some reason, it doesn't matter how hard you pull, it goes in the wrong direction. If it's off to the left, it's always trying to get you to buy mung beans, because that's of course what the Greens would do.
If it's pushing you too.
Far to the right, it's telling you spending too much money and put some stuff back. Cole's is launching an AI powered smart trolley, following Woolworth's doing something pretty similar, so presumably this means what it'll just walk around with you. Now I've got a small confession. I went to Walmart in Texas, and these things are just as big as you think they are. Right, think of like three Bunnings next door to each other, all shoved together, and that's
one shop. And in America there's a few big units. So they actually have a series of electronic scooters that you can sit and roll around the shops in and I tried the first one and it didn't have any power. I tried the second one, the third one, the fourth one, the fifth one didn't have any power. So at last I did not leave that little dream of being a fat blow driving around in a Walmart in America. But it will happen. It will happen sooner rather than later.
Keep an eye on my socials for the latest. And also back in the United States and back to politics just for a moment or two. Here the lefties that are losing it well under reader who.
Just hits it out of the park.
And she's huge, by the way, every time I'm anywhere in the States, plenty of people go, oh, read a reader from the YouTube channel Yep. She is an absolute start live of course eleven o'clock on the Telly and always it's gone news dot com dot AU. Well, she's spoken a bit about the hosts from the view, who of course are all super sooking because of course Kamala, who they thought definitely was going to win, didn't and Orange Band bad.
All the rest of it.
Well, there's a stupid little theory that's rolling around which is suggesting that you should be able to uninvite from family functions relabashes as we would call them here. The person who you know voted for the person that you didn't, and this garbage is actually being talked about on television in the US.
I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President Electrum, is just a different type of candidate from the things he's said and the things he's done and the things he will do. It's more of a moral issue for me, and I think it's more of a.
Moral issue for other people.
I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families, but against them and against people that they loved, I think it's okay to take a.
Deep Please, please, Sonny and everybody else. Here's how it works. If you have a member of your family who you would disagree with politically, don't talk about politics. And even if the person who you disagree with ab our politics tries to bring politics up, be polite and change your topic. Now, we love talking about politics. I built a career on it. It's why you watch us as regularly as you do. We are people who love talking about politics, but we
all know there is more to life than politics. Imagine being so screwed up, so screwed up in your brain that you would decide whether or not to invite your brother or your sister to Christmas dinner because they vote differently than you.
Now, we all should live in a world where two people can disagree with each other.
There are certain people who love disagreeing with each other over dinner, and then they give each other a cuddle and they move on.
But there is so.
Much else to talk about, like, for example, may I again take you? We might even do a course on this for how to talk to relatives you politically disagree with. First things first, how's your year been? How's work? How's the kids? If none of those things apply, have you seen anything good on TV this year?
Did you go to the movies? Read any good books? Have you still got that record play?
There's a million things to talk about. The idea that you turn around and say that somebody you disagree with you would extricate from your life is madness.
Now. I'm sure it happens on the right, but it feels like it happens on the left.
I've told you many, many times in the fifteen years that I've been sitting here, the greatest job I'll ever have in my life. I've lost plenty of friends, plenty of mates because they disagree with what said. Politically okay, cool, but you have to be serious enough to understand that even like Adam band would love his family right.
I disagree with that everything the man has to say.
But if Adam Bant was somehow my second cousin and I was going to a relay bash, guess what we wouldn't talk about politics Because in the real world, politics is something to be interested in but not obsessed by.
In the real world, you judge each other.
On how you treat each other, not necessarily on what you believe or what you would do when it comes to a vote every three years or four years. Please, if you're the type of person who says I can't possibly talk to you because I politically disagree with you, then guess what you are not the person with the higher hand. You are not the person who was on the moral high horse. You're the person who is making a massive mistake with their life.
Agree, disagree, but.
Just get on with life, which is exactly what we're about to do.
All start. No mucking around tonight. I cannot wait for.
Brom and Bishop Stephen Conroy and Meghan Kelly it's great to be back in the man Cave in beautiful Australia.
Thanks for watching.
Yeah, good point to my friends who just sent me text saying COVID please. We saw Instagram it was the Cigars for two weeks, absolutely correct about why the voice might be a little bit off. Join him in out to discuss everything here at home and the stuff happening around the world. Is the carry out a champ as always on a Wednesday night, Bromwin, Bishop of the Man who's just here to help labor to his bootstraps, and than Stephen Conroy.
So I'll be honest with you. I was.
I said it on the day. You saw it all in the live coverage. Don't spite the ball be a good win? All of that stuff, right, I stand by all of it.
Right. So I've been reading and going Kevin rud should he stay? Should he go? Should he stay? Should he go?
And I was willing to be merciful and say, you know what, load, continuity is important, all the rest of it. And then I read that Olkham Turnbull has come out today and said it would be an absolute mistake for us to remove him.
So Kevin hit the bricks, hit the bricks and bugger off.
Now, I know that that means you're going to come back and you're going to be leading the plan for the Royal Commission to shut us down and we're gonna have to put up with all of that garbage.
Right.
But wherever the ghost is, Stephen, I am in the opposite direction.
And if the ghost.
Says keep Kevin, then I say hit the bricks poal.
Look.
I usually have that as a rule of thumb as well, Paul. But as you know, that means Bromwin will be on Kevin's side now because the man she voted for Turnbull, Ah, he got bored.
I gonna get in early.
That's your problem.
You've got Peter Dutton, You've got Scott Morrison, You've got Joe Hockey, you've got Malcolm Turnbull. All are saying the same thing.
Yep.
Australia has to that behind its ambassadors anywhere in the world, no matter what the difficulties are, and we have to stand with them, come to deliver on our national interest with you on all of the credit to all those things.
Until my position, yeah, they got me all until then, I've seen the ghosts and the ghost when the ghost jumps on a bandwagon. I mean, what's his record? You know, we're a republic. The voice happened like you know when a place duck egg four fifths bugger or anyway. He of course too, he said, playing the world everybody miss down? All right, bro, saw the whites of your eyes. Then, when I was starting to build the case, no, no, I'm out now.
Kind is what is the job of a diplomat?
Correct?
The job of a diplomat is to make sure that your nation gets the best possible treatment from the country to which you are posted.
Correct, And you have a right to send who you believe to be the best represented. But if the circumstances change and the incoming is saying pow. And remember it's not one comment, it was a pattern of them relentlessly because he was part of the same snob class that was backing in Kamala.
There is a nice Latin phrase, persona non grata.
Yes, and that's I live it every day.
That's the way he's likely to be treated, which means Australia suffers.
Now.
Now, the real answer is that Kevin is an intelligent man. He should see the dilemma and he should resign that would be the proper thing to do.
Or there'll be some other way, or get kicked up to the un After all, we'll see what happens, but.
It can't be worse than what's there.
Yeah, correct, all right, So let's get back to where I was before, which was about people who said to me, oh, yeah, can what happened in America happened here again. I mentioned about the financial things. I mentioned about the education things. But preferential voting and it's not sort of winner take all in terms of states, does make it a little
bit difficult. That said, the overall headline a week on going through the data, going through the reality of where the government is versus where the government wants to be. Should labor be legitimately worried about being a one term government after the model has now been shown where you can come back from a pretty dark place in just four years and the Libs could do it in three.
Absolutely, And I would have said that before the result in the United States. And when people say it hasn't been done since nineteen thirty one or whatever, it is, the fact of the matter is when Tony Abbott went to the election in two thousand and basically one man except for two renegade nats he won. Now, the fact of the matter is it can be done, and it should be done. And as I said, I would say that before what happened in the United.
States and basically in popular vote in ninety eight.
So yeah, you've got the popular vote in nineteen ninety Yes, so it's not impossible to do it at all. But the important thing is this, The Dunton is calm, he's got a plan, he's got sets out the direction he's traveling in what he stands for. You know, what does Albanizi stand for? Socialism?
That's it? Upgrades?
Well, the elites always want to be socials always want to be the elite.
Corect Well, no, exactly.
And look we've seen we've seen pile after poll, focus group, but coming back weak in decisive, all the rest of it.
And again about priorities.
When they take five when they take three billion dollars worth of assistance, the fifteen hundred dollars automatic tax return to you, they yanked that, they add five billion dollars to the overall public service, All right, Like it's about priorities. So Stephen in labor circles now again, you know, trumpy in politics, and presentation doesn't work in a country like this for a whole collection different reasons. However, electorates always
reward decisiveness. They always reward decisiveness. And even if all of the elites say that you're heading in the wrong direction, well, there are plenty of examples we can all look at in history where the more decisive leader with a controversial plan ends up kicking ass over the person who wants to small target and sort of cuddle their way to power.
Now, look, I think there's some good points there. I mean, if there's anyone in labor circles that thinks that Peter Dutton is unelectable or this week's string of polls that have come out should absolutely be cold hard shivers running down their spines if that's what they still think. Now, I think they're smart enough to realize that an argument about Dutton being unelectable is disappearing very very fast. If it ever existed, it certainly doesn't exist today and for
the next six months. So I think that they need to think long and hard about how they're going to focus this election. If they think they can do what Commala did, just point out Trump and go he's a really bad man. He's done lots of horrible things and you shouldn't vote for him. It didn't make a difference. What the strains are concerned about is the cost of living, and so the Labor Party has put in place a range of measures. They clearly haven't cut through enough at
this point. They've got to keep talking about them. They've got to do more between now and the election to ensure that they're seen to be doing something around cost of living and housing.
They just think they can focus on what are they focusing on? Misinformation bills? Correct, this is not what's concerning the Australian people. It concerns us because we know it's the wrong thing to do. But the point is that they're not concentrating on what needs to be done. You've got a treasure who just fights with the governor of the Reserve Bank. I know your attitude to the Reserve Bank, but nonetheless it doesn't cut through as being a government
in charge of its own agenda. You've got a Prime minister who every time he makes a mistake, this time they put him a plane to go to some conference in the Pacific Islands or heaven forbid, off the cop when nobody important is going at all, so there is no direction about what is this government trying to do for the Australian people. Dutn is saying we're going to give you cheaper electricity, really not like the promise at Albert twenty four one that will mean that the lights
won't go out. We're looking at the ridiculous situation in twenty day where China is saying you Australia have got to kick in one point eight trillion dollars a year to give to including US China because where are developing country? I mean, the whole debate is nonsense. And yet the various sections of the community in Australia that are now
starting to say, no, you can't destroy our farmlands. No, you've got no plan to what happens to the the windmills and the solar panels when they're twenty years old and they've got to be going to landfill?
Who's going to pay for that?
Important questions plus cost of living are just not being answered well.
Also also really important about the climate change stuff. Right, less than three percent of people had it as their top three issue.
Right.
Secondly, also with the with Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement. It means all the garbage in and around twenty thirty and twenty thirty five really blows away, and it's a conversation about twenty fifty. Now, of course, all of that matters, because remember, China can keep doing whatever the heck it wants till twenty thirty, whatever it wants till twenty thirty.
And sorry to rub sold into.
The wounds, Stephen, because I know you will worre quite the Kamala fan, but I just want you to imagine what's happening in the next four years, which is Donald Trump will be there on the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the United States, and Donald Trump will be there to open the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games in Los Angeles. All right, So all those things you were looking forward to Kamala doing, on top of everything else, you're going to get Trump, which brings me too.
There's a moment in time when if you're a super.
Political fan, you end up sort of watching a lot of people and you think, oh, you know, I always love this person because this person is always it never steers me wrong, right, And it's not at all an age thing.
It is just sometimes about.
Can you believe somebody if they told you one thing last week and they tell you another.
Thing the next week.
Right now, James Carville was, of course, the big brain behind is the economy stupid all the rest of it back in nineteen ninety two. He's been fascinating, amazing, incredible on television and if I had any chance in my life to sit and talk to him for an hour, I'd gladly do so. There's a great documentary about his life, particularly how hard he was working to get rid of Biden at the end.
But he put out an.
Opinion piece a couple of weeks before the election where he said, Harris will win. He listened all the reasons why she will win. He was clear in video after video after video after video after video about why she will win, not just blue. She was you should win, Why I think she can win. It was definitive, it was absolute. And when you got a backside handed to her, well, he's now turning around and saying he always knew that. What was the direct opposite of what he said was what he thought.
Have no legislative power, we have no executive power, we have no judicial power. So when you out of power, you are an opposition party, and go and tell all of the people that are sending you and asking you for money, justify what you did, Justify what you did wrong, and tell us what you're going to do different, because
what you've done a worth. Get your head around that in all of the Washington based Democrats farting around going to wine and cheese parties and talking about how masagey initiagly to get yours out of Washington and go work on a twenty twenty six campaign and do penance to make up for your goddamn arrogance and stupidity. Well, we've got to say we told you so. We told you this a dentist was disaster. We told you to get out in front of public safety issues.
You didn't.
We told you to have an open process and demonstrate the magnificent and staggering and deep talented existed of my Democratic Party.
You didn't.
We told you to differentiate yourself a Biden.
You didn't.
I hate to be know it all, but all of these things are part of the record.
He is amazing, He's an incredible political brain.
But I got to say it takes a little step back for me after saying one thing one week and then being the other.
So I want to ask both of you, guys, the's people who obviously wear a jersey. You've team written Team I bet James Coffin, do you want to say something?
Yes?
I do.
Okay, this is the book he wrote when he was at the peak of his past, and if he reread his own book, he'd never written that article.
Yes, very good point.
What he started was out there is starting to reflect on what is in here. In fact, if you read this book and I have been ready for a long times, even the autograph cop.
I know, look at you.
The bottom line is.
That all the things he said you should do, Trump did yes, and like fight fight fight, that's what he always says you should do. So just where you read your book again?
All right, So thirty second version from both of you.
Right, You've got you've got friends, a career to look back on, and again you wear the jerseys of Team Red and Team But how do you make sure that you never fall into that whole problem?
And where we will win? We will win, We will win. I know we'll win. We'll win.
This many seats in this many played, like all of that definitive, you know, buck up, and then the week after I never that You've got to make sure you just never because I'm pretty fluent in how formal police speak, right, and I can tell when you're all in or whether you're just doing the best you can.
I believe Trump would win, yes, when everybody said on a coming, I had these arguments correct, and I kept saying he would win. But I did that because of my own research, if you like, and looking at just what didn't make sense. I saw the polls being used as as really propaganda material, not trying to be realistic at all. So there is the very real thing that you always must have. Says it now. I say Peter Dutton can win the next election, yes, because I've looked at what is happening.
But this is the thing, and if he doesn't, you're not going to turn around and say I never will be looking for some honesty in feedback, And again, Stephen, again it hurts me to say that one of the greats is not as great.
As he used to be because of that thing.
But again, as a person who you want your team to win, but each and every week you make it very clear that you're not going to lie on their behalf about their chances.
No, I think you've got to. Brockman has been in politics longer than me, So you just have to always accept that the Electric get it right. Even if you think that the arguments you're putting forward and your team's putting forward are the correct ones. The Electric always get it right. And Carvill's dead right about what's happened in the US in what he said.
In the last few.
Days, and there's a lot of lessons and messages that he's given there that we need to pay attention to here in Australia or we may lose.
Yep, see there we go. I like the honest. Are you always here to help in both directions? I appreciate it. Thank you guys, love you to see you hear from the men. Cab'le see you're get next week or a quick breakday. We're more.
Meghan Kelly from the United States. Oh, she's on fire today. Our favorite time to talk to our favorite person, Meghan Kelly, The Meg and Kelly Show. Find it on Youtubeer serious XM. Do you still feel like it's buzzing? I'm still on cloud nine, mate?
What about you same?
I truly haven't felt this euphoric. I don't remember the last certainly not professionally. When do you ever feel professionally euphoric? Just I'm absolutely thrilled, and I do just feel like in many ways our country was saved. It was saved by what happened last Tuesday. It's not that it would have gone away had she won, But I just don't know how we would have handled four more years of that far left rule and the open borders, the number of dead Americans we would have had, I mean, the war.
I just I feel, truly, it's like the dawn of a new day. I feel hopeful about my children. I'm walking around clicking my heels.
Now the world has moved on from Kamala Harris. Could we just take a sick just a little second.
She raises a billion dollars, spends it all, and ends up twenty million dollars in dead heck did.
She do that?
It's undbelievable if these reports are true, and some of them we've seen ourselves. So I'll get to the Oprah one in one second. But she reportedly paid five million dollars to Megan V. Stallion to perform one of her rallies five million dollars. And the reason she did that
is because Kamala Harris could get no crowds. She had a couple when she first announced, it was like, oh, this is exciting, there's a there's a switcheroo, the dead guy's not running anymore in favor, and so there was a little in the beginning, and then they realized she stinks and they weren't coming, and so they spent five million dollars to say, oh, basically, come to a Megan Thee Stallion concert, and people did. And then they realized, oh my god, this is the way we're going to
do it. This is how we're going to get people to show up. We're going to tell him Beyonce's going to be here and they'll show up, which they did, but then Beyonce didn't perform, but still got a bunch of money.
And then we get to the Oprah thing.
Now, you and I both know, and Oprah still considers herself a journalist. As far as I understand, you and I both know, if we want an interview with Kamala Harris, one thing we would not be allowed to do is to say we'll pay you money. Kamala Harris or you pay us money and we can make this interview happen. Both of those are totally unethical. No money is to
change hands between actual journalists and their subjects. And the only exception to that rule is you can pay for their expenses for like a light out to know the interview, and you can pay for if you need to like license their wedding photos because you're doing an in depth picture.
You know, profile, and then that's okay.
Well, somehow or another, Oprah's profile of Kamala Harris wound up costing Kamala Harris a million dollars. A million because that big town hall in which Oprah Winfrey kept yelling at us comber so annoying. She charged Kamala Harris two payments of five hundred thousand dollars for that. And Oprah was caught on camera this morning by one of those TMZ type guys saying, Oprah, you took a million dollars for that interview, and Oprah said no, I wasn't paid anything.
So the payments were to Harpo Productions, her production company, So I guess ostensibly they could set up that set. I've been on a lot of beautiful sets. Beautiful that they had to build is a million dollars? Never heard of such a thing, do not? And what I saw there would have been pricey a million. No, by the way, I'm sure Harpo Productions already has a beautiful stage that she could have gone to and to add some video screens like that you rent, you're not buying. How is
it a million dollar? I don't get it to me. It seems like she was greased. They greased Harpo Productions, and Oprah naturally wanted Comma to win anyway, so everybody wins, like, here's a million dollars, we're just burning our donors' money. And Oprah looks like a hero because we all know, just like Meryl Streep said, we all know com Let's get a win.
I know you're gonna win.
Meryl said, Madam President. Ooh, who I didn't mean. I meant vice president.
So the fix was in how many those people got paid? Is that where the money went? Did Merrill get a payment? Did Jlo get a payment? Did Chris Rock get a payment? Is there were a lot of stars there that night. How much did they get, if any, for their endorsement? They're totally organic endorsement. Would love to know.
I think it's particularly ridiculous the one hundred thousand dollars that were spent replicating the set of the sex podcast Call Her Daddy. Now, this is because Harris wouldn't go to them, so they came to her, but they wanted it to look like she went to them, so they faked an entire podcast set in a hotel room, and for one hundred thousand dollars. Here's what they should have done. Okay, Now, Ika, she wants to be in a certain way, shot a certain way.
His how it works.
You set up a camera in a hotel room, and you set up another camera for somebody who's going to be interviewing you, okay, and you.
Do exactly what all those movie stars.
Do when they're promoting something, which is that your line for interviewers up, Thanks very much. You're give them the tape. You give them the tape, You give them the tape. They did not need to do this.
Yeah, So, first of all, that is a campaign that does not give a fig about their donors' money. They couldn't care less about using that money wisely. I don't know how how it costs one hundred thousand dollars to replicate a set of a podcast.
I really don't.
I mean, I'll just give you. I'll lift the dress up here, Paul. We did an in depth interview with the stolen Valor guys, Tim Walls's platoon mates, who were saying, you know, he lied about his rank, He'd lied about this, lied about the other thing.
We had to get a place off site. We rented it.
We had to bring in a big team to mike the guys, to shoot it, to light it, all the bit we had to fly them in.
I think all in.
That whole thing was like fifteen thousand bucks, which is not cheap.
But I don't the Call.
Her Daddy it was the one lady, the host and Kamala in a hotel room. Like well, they had to make it look like the Call Her Daddy set. I looked at the set. It had a couple plants, a couple lights, a couple of books, and the letters with the podcast name I for the Love of Me. Do not have any clue how that bill gets run up to one hundred thousand dollars. It's like they wanted to buy people's love. It's like they wanted to flush it down because there's some rule that you shouldn't be left
with any in the coffers. I'm sure the donors don't know about that rule. And what happened in the end was they actually ran out of money. They didn't have all that money in the bank still to pay all they get out the voters. It's not why she lost, but it wasn't good money or time management. And so she had spent so much on freaking Oprah that we talked to the get out the vote person for Trump today.
She was saying to Michigan, I never saw them.
Our people were all over the streets knocking on the doors of the Muslim community, the Arab of community.
Never saw them. Two guys one time. That was it. I think it's because
Megan the million was busy spending the money that should have been paying for canvassers.