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This is Sharry.
Thanks Andrew. Well, good evening.
Exclusive tonight, We've got freshly unearthed footage that shows Kevin Rudd calling Donald Trump a village idiot. This as his deleted tweets becomes a big story in New York. Peter Dutton searches ahead in news poll. He's almost in a winning position. Well, does this mean that Albanezy could lead a one term government? Also full coverage tonight of the Amsterdam pogrom. A victim would join me live on the show, plus the vice president of the Anti Defamation League who was on the ground.
As the horror unfolded.
Also on the show tonight Steve Price, Joe Hildebrand, Cameron Milner, and Koshagada. And I'm going to speak with Kosher about how there are now reports Kamala Harris had to pay millions of dollars for celebrities to turn up to her rallies.
But first tonight, it's Remembrance Day today, when we honor our fallen soldiers who fought for our freedoms and our survival on this precise day, this sacred day, the very values our allied soldiers sacrificed their lives for are at grave risk as Islamic fundamentalists and woke leftists join forces to weaken Western civilization and to rip away at the
fabric that holds our society together. The warning signs and scenes of violence that we saw before World War II are now sadly reoccurring, and the media is complicit while veterans and survivors despair at what our world is coming to. On Thursday night local time our time Friday, there was a pogrom in Amsterdam. The story has been massively underplayed in mainstream media outlets, and both the lack of coverage and the response to the event itself exposes untold hypocrisy.
And if you missed this story, and who could blame you because there hasn't been much coverage.
Here's what happened.
There was a wave of extreme violence from local Muslim gangs towards Jews after a soccer match between mccabi Tel Aviv and the most popular Dutch team in Amsterdam. Master tuckers shouted pro Palestinian and anti Jewish slogans while they beat and chased Jews with knives. As you're about to see, footage shows one Israeli yelling I'm not Jewish as he was beaten and a warning this is distressing. Jews were spat on, and footage shows Jews being thrown in the river.
Others jumped into canals to escape the attackers. One Jew has told how he spoke Arabic so that the Muslims would stop their violence against him. They wouldn't hear him speaking Hebrew. He then later rescued many others. We know this because of the testimony of victims, but also because, like on October seven, these Hamas supporters filmed their hate crimes against Jews. Again a warning, this video is distressing.
Sermons.
Police reportedly sat back and watched. They didn't help the Tel Aviv fans as they were attacked. A network of taxi and uber drivers are also reported to have helped the gang's locate Jews. One father from London, who did try and break up a gang attack, was reportedly hospitalized.
He was punched, his nose.
Was split and bleeding, his glasses broken. When someone pointed out that the man was British, not Israeli, one of the attackers said, yes, but he helped a Jew. The Islamic attackers demanded to see passpots. They were hunting in search of Jews, and the attackers trailed on scooters or in taxis. There was no quarter of Amsterdam that was safe. Israelis were abandoned and left to fend for them. Jews were ordered to stay in lockdown in their hotel rooms
and not wear anything that would identify their religion. Now, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette and Yaho even sent rescue planes to Amsterdam, and more than two thousand Jews were flown to Israel on emergency flights. There were initial reports that sixty two people had been arrested, but it turns out that none of those.
Were related to the pogrom.
Conservative Party leader Gerd Wilders said, and I quote, I am speechless.
Amsterdam police just.
Confirmed that no one has been arrested during the Islamic Jew hunt in Amsterdam Thursday night. All arrests have been made before and during the soccer match, and not during the pogram. Now this is Israeli's just supporting their soccer team in a western city in twenty twenty four, when we're at the peak of woke ideology and progressive politics.
This pogrom also took place on the eighty sixth anniversary of kristol Nacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when there was a coordinated wave of Nazi violence and attacks against Jews. It took place in Amsterdam, on the same streets where Anne Frank lived, hid, and was murdered. Her legacy cannot be forgotten, along with all of those who served and sacrificed for us, who we remember today on Remembrance Day now.
One Dutch survivor of the Holocaust, Eddie Boas, told my colleague Caroline Marcus today that the scenes were reminiscent of the Nazi era, and he says he fears the aggression on our streets aren't far off.
It makes me more than say it.
It makes me.
Cranky now when we reflect on World War II and the years that preceded it, No one excuses the violence by claiming there was a reason for it, an excuse. We recognize unequivocally that it was abhorrent racism and the messages never again. Yet, right now, as we are witnessing pogroms and persecution and racism, we are hearing excuses. Mainstream media outlets who should know better, have excused this violence by showing footage of one or two Israelis taking down a Palestinian flag Wednesday.
Social media videos verified by Sky News Joe maccabee Tel Aviv fans tearing down a Palestinian flags, Well, that was.
Sky News UK and Channel nine.
Here was no better the violence on the streets of Amsterdam unfolding after israel football fans were filmed chanting anti Arab slogans and pulling down Palestinian flags from buildings.
Now, firstly, surely it doesn't need to be said that one person taking down a flag doesn't justify the lynching and hunting down of dozens, if not hundreds of Jews.
But far more crucially.
The flag and the chants are simply not the reason for the wave of violence in Amsterdam because the Jew hunt was planned well in advance. Extremists plotted the attack days earlier on apps like Telegram and WhatsApp.
And we have those messages.
Dutch authorities have also confirmed that Mosside Intelligence that's Israeli intelligence, warned them about the plans for violence ahead of time, and that they did nothing with the warning and attempts to paint this are's some protests again Israel are also utterly inaccurate Let there be no misunderstanding. These thugs were not trying to help Palestinians.
They were hunting down Jews.
Its persecution, it's racism, it's a pogrom, and the media claims the violence is justified.
It's precisely what the mob at.
The Opera House on October nine last year promised to do.
Where's the Jews?
And we were told there was no problem with that chant because it wasn't gas the Jews. Well, the pro Palestinian mobs have been telling us this entire time what they intend to do the world over. They promised a global into fada. We're now witnessing violence erupt in every western.
City in the globe.
This is the point where it's gone too far. Now I've grown up Jewish, but I've never truly understood how nineteen thirties Europe could happen, or how the programs in northeastern Europe in the early nineteen hundreds could happen either or in Spain in the fourteen hundreds, or in the Roman Empire some two thousand years.
Ago before Christ.
But now, for the first time in my life, I do I understand how it happens. Law enforcement sits back, politicians sit back, the media condones it, and the anti Semitism erupts. It's allowed to fester and spread wider until it becomes a major movement where figureheads arise. That is how it happens, and we're following this recipe right now in dozens of cities around the world.
Now.
I believe it's not too late to stop it, but we need strong leaders who are prepared to say that they won't allow this to happen under their watch.
Who are prepared to enforce the law.
If we don't have these leaders, then I ask how many planes will Israel have to send? How many planes will Israel have to send to Australia, to Europe, to the United States? How many planes will Israel have to send to rescue all of us from this violence that's erupting and that law enforcement isn't doing anything about. Fundamentalist is Lammists who don't stand for the values that our veterans fought for of freedom, peace and makeship are given
a free pass by the police. They're getting away scot free, emboldened by the radical left. Our veterans, our soldiers, our fallen who we remember today would surely be horrified that the Western world is crumbling before our very eyes. I'm going to get to other topics in the moment. There's a lot to talk about Trump, our exclusive on Kevin Rudd News Poul. But now just let's stay on this and let's bring in live from Berlin. Senior vice president
of the Anti Defamation League, Marina Rosenberg. Marina, thank you for your time. You flew to Amsterdam when there's violence unfolded. Can you tell us some of the horrific things that happened.
Yeah, absolutely, Sherry, But first of all, thank you for having me and thank you for your words. You said it right. What we saw in Amsterdam Thursday evening was a modern day for grown against Jews. There is absolutely no other way to put it. And this is exactly how glue globalized. The Intifada looks like. And it happened in Amsterdam, but it could happen here in Berlin, it could happen in Sydney, it could happen in New York.
The moment that our societies are normalizing anti Semitism, are allowing for terrorist manifestations in their cities with flags of Hamas and Hibala, with calls to globalize the Antifada and resistance in any way, so we shouldn't be surprised of what we saw Thursday night. Now let me feel clear.
We know what happened because we saw the videos that the attackers themselves put on social media when they hunt Jews, and they themselves were using this term in their Whatsap groups, And this was a coordinated attack, This was not scontaneous. We heard of people that were there that they were persecuted, they were attacked, they were beaten. There were people that were asked to show their passports to show their nationality.
The attackers ask are you Jewish? And there's a video on social media of an Ukrainian citizen crying for his life saying I'm not Jewish, I'm not Jewish. And this is eighty six years after Kristen Lach, the Forgron that happened here in Germany and in Austria where Jews were killed and arrested. So this is not just unacceptable. This is time for leaders to lead, to stop just talking about it and condemning it and to take real actions.
We're in Rozenberg.
I really appreciate your time because we're asking, as you say, this violence rapt in cities right across the world. We during need strong ladyship, as you just said, we need governments to take this seriously.
Marina, thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.
Chery and a victim of those attacks will join me later in the show.
He's a soccer fan.
He tells me about how the police did nothing, didn't even get out a police vehicle. But now let's turn to Kevin Rudd. We can Tonight exclusively reveal freshly unearthed footage of Kevin Rudd calling Donald Trump a village idiot. Now, Rudd is already dealing with headlines in the New York Times no less about why he deleted his tweets calling Trump a traitor. But now there are further damaging comments that he's made in the past about Donald Trump.
Have a look in the last four years, has been run by a village idiot, competent international state craft and the United States increasingly incompetent and international state craft under.
Trump, And those two comments were edited together called him a village idiot, and then he said that the United States under Trump was incompetent.
He also was caught on film mocking Trump.
I stand by what I wrote then that was in a pre Trump world. I hope to publish again soon, hopefully early next year, the Future of US China Relations under President Trump, and then I go to the subtitle will be a call for a new tremendous piece of very big, beautiful Mara Lago chocolate cake. That's the working title. Any other suggestions I'd greatly receive.
You wouldn't hear Kevin Wright speaking about any other United States president like that. In other comments, he also claimed that Trump was in love with dictators.
Have a look, but the underpinnings of it was still incoherent because Trump himself was incoherent, and he waxed and waned from being in love with dictators to not knowing what he wanted from tators.
Now.
Rudd's poor judgment in making those comments in the first place is only matched by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's poor judgment in appointing Rudd in the first place. Rudd failed to recognize that the MAGA movement wasn't going away and that Trump could be president once again, while Albineazy knew full well that Rudd had trashed the former president, but appointed him anyway to our most important ambassadorship our man
in Washington. Now, businesses across Australia right now will be rightly worrying about whether we're going to be hit with the ten percent tariffs that Trump plans to impose on countries around the world. And they'd be even more worried because is Rudd really the best person to make the case that Australia should be exempt when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump?
Now?
As The Nightly editor Chris Dare writes, loose lipped Rudd is so arrogant actually thinks he can walk back every insult ever delivered about Trump and get away with it.
Well he can't.
No one's going to forget. And the widespread media coverage now that he's deleting his comments is only amplifying the devastating remarks he made.
They're now being repeated in.
The media over and over again. Well to discuss, let's bring in Sky News host Steve Price and contributor Joe Heldebrand.
Welcome to you both.
Steve Christaor also made the very good point in his article that probably Anthony Albinezi and Penny Wong actually agree with everything Kevin Rud said about Trump in the past.
Well, they probably do. I mean, nothing surprises me about Kevin. I mean he called me a gutless coward, which is clearly defamatory, and he wanted it published in an open letter in the news limited papers around the country. So it's all going to come back to haunt him and people will find more and more examples you have brilliantly done of things he said.
In the past.
Now, Donald Trump, I think we know one thing about him. He's a relationship guy. I mean Joe Hockey went and played golf with him, deliberately lost and we managed to keep tariffs of things like steal and aluminum. I mean, Kevin Rudd's not going to get that sort of treatment. The own goal by Anthony Albanezi and appointing Kevin Rudd was probably as bad as Tony Abbott and the knighthood
for Prince Philip. I mean it's almost it's worse than that, because this is economically going to be very difficult for Australia, much worse exactly.
You know, we are national security, our trade the US is important for so many reasons. But Joe hilde Brun, these comments, these new comments that we've just played tonight, calling Trump a village idiot.
I mean, that's a new level of low from Rudd. Yeah, that's interesting.
Donald Trump, or the election of Donald Trump, is actually schooling a whole bunch of the sort of shall we say, the narcissistic smug left in why that I think are incredibly illuminating and incredibly helpful to those of us who would like to see them taught a lesson and put back in their box. Now, it has to be remembered that when Kevin Rudd was made ambassador to the US, part of the reason for that was to get him
off Twitter. Was to get him to shut up, stop calling for a royal commission into news corps, stopped slagging off everybody didn't like settling old scores. And I can promise you that was very much part of the thinking in booting him over there. He would have to be quite literally diplomatic. The fact that he didn't scrub those tweets at the time, I think speaks to a level
of perhaps arrogance and complacency. I don't think Trump had even announced his renomination at the time that these comments were made. And that goes to another piece of I suppose, you know, elite lefty arrogance. And this is something goes back to the first thing I wrote after Biden was elected, which was all these people celebrating as though it was all over, it was never going to come back again.
I'm like, you think those seventy million plus voters is the second highest turnout for anyone in US presidential history. They're just going to go away now, that's it, that's all. They're beaten. And you had all these lefties in Australia and in America, these urban, elite, upper middle class, tertiary educated, smartest people in the room. And this is another thing that it's exposed. Oh we're so much smarter than you,
yor just an idiot. Oh he's gone forever, everything's fine, And they clearly had never actually contemplated the fact that this guy could come back and be their worst nightmare. They've clearly never seen the sequel to an action.
For you, it was never going away.
But just before we move on from right, one of the most egregious things as well is that he actually took a media outlet to the Press Council because he was so outraged about the reports that he was going to be or was being considered for the job of the next ambassador in Washington, and it.
Was all true.
It was all true, unbelievable. Now let's have a look at the news poll today. The Coalition has received of Peter Dutton a major boost because the primary for the Coalition has now lifted to forty percent. Peter Dutton is also closing on Anthony Albanezi in the better Prime Minister pole,
jumping four points now. Steve the Coalition needs a primary of at least forty percent, probably forty one percent to be in a winning position, but it looks like judging by the momentum over the past year, Peter Dutton is slowly inching that.
Slow and steady. And the point about it is that he's now in a position where he can say, in an election campaign to every Australian do you feel better off now than you did three years ago? Which is the line that Donald Trump used to get elected in the United States, And of course he answered that question is no. And so you've got now Peter Dutton in a inner position where he's competitive. I mean, I don't think anybody the Coalition included and Peter Dutton particularly are
getting ahead of themselves. They know there's got a hell of a lot of work still to do. But Peter Dutton now has the perfect opportunity. You've got to fight this election on policies, not on pastreck ods. So he's going to fight it on cost of living, cost of living, immigration in particular, that's the other issue that people are really upset about, and of course energy policy with nuclear
thrown into the mix. So I think Anthony Albanezi, after a horror a couple of weeks where he said, you know, the upgrade drama and the holiday house, he would have woken up this morning, picked up his copy of The Australia and thought, oh god, I've really got a problem now.
You see.
That's what I'm not sure about, because even when we could all tell that the Voice was going to be defeated, Joe albo was still even privately to insisting that.
I don't know if I've ever.
Said, surely at this point, you know, alban Ezi once boasted he'd never lost a newsport but even surely he must be getting worried now.
I would certainly never reveal any private conversations I have I haven't had, but certainly I can say the one thing that troubles me most about Albo is his confidence and that even and you need that to be apologician, because you need.
On this show, on this show set Albanese. He says he's going to win.
But he is very confident. He's very confident, and he is often, in my view, too confident. And obviously that that confidence was misplaced in the voice, and that was something I was saying publicly that this is delusion. Yeah, that's right, I agree, And again I think this is a useful wake up call. I mean, there was a there was a school of thought among sections of the Labor Party that the great strategy would be to make
demonize Peter Dutton and make him Australias Donald Trump. Well that doesn't look too bright, now, does it, because in that scenario, Peter Dutton wins in a landslide. And I think also it is a reminder and Albo and the government have been very good about this since the Voice really burnt their fingers. They have been concentrating wholly on bread and butter issues, wholly on cost of living matters. They have not been distracted by any other you know,
quote unquote sort of woke or ideological agendas. When there were issues around you know, naming people's gender or.
Sect about him.
Here all the government hasn't been focused on cost of living at all.
Everybody is supporting let's.
Have a look at Nancy.
But I have I have learned their lessons. There are a lot of lessons to learn. And if I just stick to the center, that will be all right. And this hasn't been Obviously, Liba is going to get bad poll.
You get it, Joe, but the government has not learned. There's no question.
Now Nancy Pelosi has blamed the loss of the election on President Joe Biden.
Have a look.
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may been other candidates in the race. Commonly, I think still would have won, but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public sooner. The anticipation was that if there if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.
Steve Price, it is true that if Biden would have stepped aside earlier, a proper primary process could have been run. A stronger candidate would have been found. It probably wouldn't have been Kamala Harris.
Proper, yeah, you'd get a proper primary. You get a proper candidate which wasn't Kamala Harris, but Nancy Pelosi. I mean, who needs her as a friend? I mean Paul old Joe Biden. I mean, we all felt sorry for Joe Biden in the for years as he stumbled up the stairs of the aircraft and couldn't remember his name. But Pelosi was sitting there that whole time, and they let him hang there on the branch, and finally they had
to cut him down. But to now come out and say that, I mean, I really I feel sorry for Joe Biden, to be honest, I mean that is a disgraceful behavior by someone who has you know, worked off the back of Joe Biden for years.
Look, he should have stepped aside earlier. He was sure he was thrown out ultimately by Barack Obama and by Nancy Pelosi. But also this loss has exposed all the infighting with the different camps Joe.
No sympathy for Joe Biden whatsoever. It was outrageous to think that he would run again, given his age and obvious cognitive decline. I don't think anyone expected that would happen, except for Joe Biden, and perhaps Jill Biden has a lot to answer for, because she seems to be the one who is sort of juicing him up and giving him his talking points and give him a little pat on the back like a toddler when he actually got something right. I thought it was the most embarrassing spector
I've ever seen. And the idea that you would torch the entire Democratic Party's chances maybe for a generation, bring back Donald Trump, who, by your own reckoning, is the most dangerous president in US history. I don't believe that,
but that's what they say. And they were prepared to actually roll the dice on that and bring it back with a candidate they knew couldn't beat anyone else, so they maybe let Donald lu Donald back into the nomination or otherwise failed to find a better candidate who could have beaten Donald Trump or someone else. And they did all of that, by their own admission, brought the most dangerous man in the United States States back into the White House just for the sake of one man's vanity,
one man's personal legacy project. Torch the entire party for that, Torch the entire country for that. And they say Trump is the one with dictatorial, anti democratic tendencies. Give me a break.
The reality is neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris would have been able to win against Donald Trump. And the reason the Obamas, in my view, took so long to come out and endorse Kamala Harris was not because they wanted another candidate. They probably wanted Michelle Obama to run it. And you can see that by the books, I mean reading between the lines, and I did read, by the way.
For the most recent she didn't want to run.
I strongly believe that she does want a political career, just judging by reading her book.
Anyway, time will tell.
Joe, Hilda Brand, Steve Price, thank you both so much.
Now still to come.
Kamala Harris accused of spending over one million dollars for Oprah Winfrey's appearance, plus an Israeli soccer fan who was chased in Amsterdam.
Join me Live next, that's after this welcome back. Well still to come.
Kamala Harris accused of paying celebrities to appear with her. Also, there's drama in the Trump camp as Mike Pompeo is excluded from his administration. I'm going to get to that with Koshergada. But now let's return to the program in Amsterdam. This is an important story. Five people were hospitalized and twenty to thirty injured. One of those who was injured is soccer fan off ek Ziv. He says that he felt the same as he did on the morning of October seven, and he joins me now live effect, thank
you for your time. You are safely back in Israel. Now tell us how you were injured on Thursday night in Amsterdam.
So thank you for having me. And So I got injured.
In my head.
The becum in my head the right side. After we came out from the central station, the metro station from the stadium to the way to DWN Square and saw in the exit waiting for us thirty twenty to thirty guys and attack our fans, and I got hurt by a spoon in my head and then they sworn at us.
Some being banged fireworks or something like this. But it felt like a rocket because it it makes a massive, massive explosion nearby us, and you can you could see that the smoke come come on from the ground and it was vital towards very scary situation. And at the moment I didn't know, I didn't know what but I know that I need to ride away with my friend. And another time that he was fifteen, I think I don't know who he's.
For fifteen minutes. Is that what you're saying? You ran away for fifty the.
Boy, the boy who take a hide behind me with the explosion and come there is a boy I think he was fifteen years old, that's it. He come along from Israel to this game just to enjoy this beautiful, beautiful soper much and then we got into this attack. So we knew that if we don't run away immediately, we could be there, because we live in this situation every time, every day and as well, so it's like an emergency situation that we know we need to run away immediately.
Affect. Did police help you at all at any point?
They come late? They come really really late, because when it's happened and the terrorists Muslims comes very very organized from the start to the end. And you can see, you could see even the from TikTok Lives, Facebook lives from the down Square that the police didn't do nothing. They're just standing in a line that with their course, with their cause, the police courts behind them, just standing just standing without any help and you could bud the
explosion of the big bangals fireworks. It's about thrown into our hands and it could held it in these lives. So they didn't help. And until they got involved, many many of our hands get humiliating, roub anced and kicked, and they just it's a weird and said situation because I we can do nothing. No one helped us. The group of who helped us was actually the ultras of Macapital Macaby fanatics who heard the unius about that attack just in the stadium and then they come together to
help our guys. And that is the police didn't come to help us.
It's completely outrageous, totally outrageous that the police and it's not just you saying this, a lot of the victims and the eyewitnesses are saying that police did nothing, and well.
The proof is in the pudding.
No one reportedly arrested at all despite this roundpage off Ek.
Thank you. We're so sorry you went through that.
We appreciate you sharing your story with us in Australia tonight.
Thank you, Thank you much, Rich Abtades, thank you very much for having me.
Thank you now still to come after the break Kamala Harris accused of splashing out millions of dollars on celebrity appearances at her campaign rallies, and why Ozzie parents are having fewer babies.
All of that with Cameron Milner and David Gazard.
After this quick break, All right, let's bring in our Monday night political panel now former chief of staff to Bill Shortton Cameron Milner and former advisor to John Howard David Gazard. Great to see you both. Always love this panel on a Monday. Now let's start with us politics, because we're learning that Kamala Harris reportedly dropped one million dollars to get Oprah Winfrey to one of her town Whole events. This is back in September. This report is
from the Washington Examiner. They say that the Harris campaign paid that amount of money to Winfrey's company, Harpo Productions. Also says that Harris spent or her campaign spent six figures on building a set for Kamala's appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy, and then the campaign also reportedly spent up to twenty million on swing state constants on the eve of the election, including on Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Now, Cameron, from your experience in politics, and
you've also run state campaigns for labor. All this money on celebrity endorsements, but I mean, and even Taylor Swift, But it looks like voters just sold through it.
Well I think they did, and I think elites don't work and celebrities don't work a shari. I mean, it didn't work for Albanese with the Albanize voice. It tanked with Alan Joyce from that campaign, and it looked terrible. For Kamala, Trump looked authentic and I'm ala hand the microphone to get another Hollywood celebrity, another woke lefty on the stage. But this is much worse. This is much worse.
If this is true, this is cash for comet on a grand scale, cash for comet, because we don't know where they were just ring a line off an udo queue for money, or where they actually believe what they were saying. Abou Kamala harrise, And that would be really really bad if that's actually the case. As I say, cash for comet, Kamala.
Yeah, that's a good line. David Gazarde.
The celebrities actually could have worked against Kamala. Harris given that cost of living and inflation was the biggest issue in the US election.
I was living inflation, and it was the working class that really sort of said, hey, we need a leader who's in touch with our aspirations and our concerns. You couldn't really find anyone further away from those aspirations than elites living in Hollywood who are played really to pretend to be somebody else, attending parties with p D on one weekend and then telling you how to vote on the next. I mean, I think I'm with Cameron here. It's concerning too that Oprah doesn't sort of front up
and say well, I'm here as a friend. She has to be paid to appear to tell people how to vote, which would make it even worse. But it really shows a campaign team hopelessly out of touch with what voters were telling them.
A lot of lessons to learn from the US election. I'm going to come back to Donald Trump a bit later in the show, because we have learned this morning that he's excluded Mike Pompeia from his team. I'm going to come back to that with Koshagata. But I want
to have to look at the fertility rate in Australia. Now, back in two thousand and eight, the average woman was having two children, but then in twenty twenty three it fell to a record low of one point five children born to a woman over her lifetime one point five. Now the center of a population is sounding the alarm over this, even predicting that school finding will need to be cut in the twenty thirties because they're saying there
might not be enough students. Cameron, social and economic issues, the housing crisis, this is all being blamed.
Well, it's the long term legacy of Albo's cost of living crisis, isn't it. I mean, we're living grocery prices and petrol and mortgages on a daily basis. But clearly parents are deciding that children who do cost a lot of money. I have for myself, so I can speak for that. But certainly children cost money and people are worried about the future, worried about the cost of living. So this is the long term legacy of Albanese's failure on cost of living.
Frustralia because you know, it's not even far off to think that this is the reason, David. Because life is so expensive, families just can't afford to have as many children as they once could.
This is a longer term trend and it goes to people worrying about the effect of their children on the environment, which is sort of laughable given fortility rates in other countries. Don't forget that, you know, back in the mid two thousands, the then Treasurer was trying to arrest this with it with a baby bonus, something this government has as explicitly
ruled out. But it comes with the attendant problems. You have an aging population consuming more health health care, living for longer, and you've got less people entering the tax base paying taxes to pay for all those services for the aging population, so that the boomers are getting by on their savings at the moment, but it will be a declining workforce and a radically changed tax system, with taxes in other areas having a rise to pay for those bills in the future.
All Right, I want to get both of your views on the news pole, because this is kind of an amazing news pole today. For Peter Dutton, his primary or coalition's primary now forty percent. This is according to the news poll in the Australian newspaper front page today and with the primary of forty percent. Could Peter Dutton be Prime Minister if he continues to head in this direction?
Well, the trend is Peter's friend. I mean, it's been going for a while now, this news poll trend away from Labor and growing and growing the Liberal primary. I think, David and you and I've spoken this about this. Dutton still has time, so he's coming. He's coming from a long way behind. But with six months to go before the next federal election, this trend is really really worrying for Labor. And the worry for Labor is that it
is we can't get out of the corner. Albanie hasn't found a way to get the primary to increase, and in fact what's happening is the Greens are going backwards. Now that's so bad thing, Sharie, but necessarily the Liberal primary is becoming huge and that's a real long term problem for Labor as they face the election in only six months time.
Look, Labor has in recent times run excellent campaigns, also excellent scare campaigns. But David, it does seem and you know, we hear reports that they might run a scare campaign on abortion and other issues.
It seems as though voters.
Are starting to cement their view of exactly who the Prime Minister is and they think that he's weak and incompetent.
Yeah.
I was having this very conversation this morning.
Share.
It's an interesting thing you're saying. I'd say, describe it this way. It's like the voters are going to a new restaurant with a new government. They order up the food, they're not happy with it. Do they just decide to eat it and pay the bill and not come back to the restaurant, or do they send it back? I think that the jury is out on that, but it's clear that Anthony Elbenezi is facing a trifecta of trouble
politically because he's losing the primary vote. The two PP is going against him and he arguably could be behind there, but he's also in mortal danger of giving up preferred PM. And you can survive when one of your numbers is higher than the other as leader, but when all three of prost you've got a very very difficult couple of weeks Parliament to when the year when that confluence of numbers occurs.
It's interesting for over a year now, and I think you take it back to probably the Voice campaign. There hasn't been really a week that Albernezi has won politically. He's just moving from problem to problem to problem, and he keeps trying to have distractions by announcing policies, but it just doesn't work.
Cameron, Well, no, because it's Albanese who's the frontman for it. I mean he was a frontman for the Albanese Voice, is the front man for every labor announcement. And he's not dealing with a critical issue, the number one issue for Australians.
Cost a living.
He's not dealing with it maturely and sensibly and really, and yet Peter Dartner's out there saying we've got policies and plans for that. So Albanese is in all sorts of trouble and labor while albo Leads is leading towards election loss.
Also, the times that we're living in national securities a concern as well. We're seeing this violence, whether it's youth crime, whether it's the protesters and a figure Peter Dutton, you know what used to be his weakness, what would have been considered his weaknesses, that he comes across as too hard and too tough David Gazzard, this is now working for him.
Yeah.
In politics we call those equity positions. And Peter Dutton certainly owns. The Liberal Party traditionally owns the area of security and the economy, two of the biggest vote drivers. I mean, Peter is a former policeman, has run home affairs, border control, that sort of thing, so that's running in his favor. On the other side is Anthony Albernez, a member of the socialist left faction of the Labor Party.
If ever you could find that the faction that was not put in place to run tight fiscal and budget policy, it would be the socialist Left. So Anthony Abernez, he has never really had to confront these issues. He's probably not really that interesting in running these issues. He's been more of an activist in the city, you know, quasi green, socialist left faction Labor Party MP. He suddenly finds himself with having to deal with a global economic problem as
well as a huge security problem. It's not his areas of comfort.
No, absolutely, all right, David Gazard, Cameron, me and I thank you both very much for joining me. Still to come, Donald Trump starts to announce some key appointments. I'm going to tell you which after the break, plus the internal turmoil in the Trump camp as Mike Pompeo is given the boot. All that and more with Koshagada after the Break.
Well.
Mike Pompeo and Nicky Haley have both been snubbed for a spot in the Trump administration.
Now.
Donald Trump took to social media. He thanked them for their service, but said they wouldn't be in his team.
Now.
This isn't a surprise for Nicky Haley. She ran against Trump in the primaries. She was pretty critical about him personally, although they did make up.
But this was a massive shock.
For Mike Pompeo and his supporters. It had been widely reported that he was being considered for the role of Defense Secretary.
He would have been terrific in that position.
The Wall Street Journal reports that this decision could be the influence of Trump's son, Don Junior.
But also Tucker Carlson. Now.
Don Junior retweeted a MAGA supporter who said, this, The stop Pompeo movement is great, but it's not enough right now. We need maximum pressure to keep all neocons and warhawks out of.
The Trump administration.
They have had their time at the table and brought nothing but disaster to the.
World and this country.
And Don Junior replied to this saying, agreed, one hundred, one hundred, one hundred percent.
I'm on it.
Okay, let's bring in our Sky News Countrybut kosher gada now kosher. I think this is a deeply disappointing move. Mike Pompeo was the best of the best in the Trump administration.
He was solid on Ukraine, on China, on Israel.
His view isn't unnecessary war, it's peace through strength. Now, I don't want to be too judgmental until we see who Trump does a point, but this seems to be a worrying sign about the influence of some of the isolationist figures who don't understand that actually America has a critical role to play as leader of the free world.
You know, I think what this is going to come down to, Shari, is the underlying framework here is there is a civil war really happening within the right side of politics in America and in the Republican Party, and foreign policy is one of two or three key issues
that's having a new fault line drawn. And as you say, there is the group that believes a return to non interventionalism, as they would put it, is the way forward when you want to balance all the problems that are there domestically with the way we have to look at our place in the world. And then there's the other faction that Mike POMPEII was certainly part of. Nikki Hiley, would be John Bolton, who was involved in the last administration, and others.
And I think what you're going to see is this battlefield.
It's only not even been one week yet since President Elector has come in, but I think he and his supporters, whether it's Don Junior and Tucker and others, even RFK and Tulsea Gabert and all of them are from that former camp, which is they want non interventionalism and want to pull back of US involvement actively kinetically in the world. And you are going to see that worse trading and conflict I think within the party really spill out.
It was also such a surprise because not that long ago, about a week and a half or two weeks ago, Trump all but endorsed Pompeo and thanked him for everything he'd done to keep the world a safer place at a rally bil Kosher. Trump has announced at least three key appointments. Can you take us through those three figures that.
We know about so far? Yeah.
So the first one is Susie Wiles, who was his campaign manager, and he is appointing her as chief of staff. That's an interesting one too, because she sort of grew up under the Bush era of Republican politics, and I think she was chief of staff of Ron de Santis and his primary campaign well or campaign manager. So it's interesting that she's sort of been in other parts of
those different fracturings in the Republican Party. But she has definitely earned his trust and credibility given the very successful campaign that he ran. She doesn't seek the limelight. She seems to be a very disciplined person and somebody who's able to manage Trump as much as Trump is manageable. So that's one, and she'll be the gatekeeper for a lot of people having access to Trump. The second is Congresswoman Elis Stephonic of New York has reportedly been offered the role of UN Ambassador.
That is a position that requires.
Senate confirmation, so it won't be official until the Senate comes back in and is able to run that process. But everybody expects that that will go through smoothly, and.
She's accepted it.
She's somebody who rows to prominence with her addressing the issues on college campuses in the US and in the wake of October seventh and anti Semitic protests and all of that. So her appointment will be quite interesting as our representative to the un specifically given what's happening in
that region. And then the third one is the borders are Tom Horman, who's a retired ICE director, So he's a retired director of the Immigration Enforcement Agency and he's coming out of retirement to serve as a czar, which is not a cabinet position or doesn't have official authority per se, but he'll be the force, the face rather of that issue, which was a signature issue of Trump
with the master deportations and all of that. So that one, I think also signals that Trump is so far intending to keep his signature campaign promise with respective deportations.
Yeah, exactly.
And I think Stephanick did a brilliant job when she was holding those university chancellors to account. Kosha got it great to see you as always on a Monday night, and thanks everyone for watching tonight. I'll see you tomorrow at at eight. And I think we're about to rename the Man Cave the Woman Cave because he is Dnika to Giorgio