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[00:00:13] Live from Washington. This is BBC News. Iran says it's finalising
[00:00:17] finalising a deal with Iran to open open a shipping route through the
[00:00:19] the Strait of Hormuz, but warns that
[00:00:22] that certain third parties shouldn't shouldn't interfere. Russia launches
[00:00:25] launches a devastating attack on on Kyiv with President Zelensky warning
[00:00:28] warning that a lack of air defence defence missiles is costing Ukrainian
[00:00:31] Ukrainian lives. And researchers
[00:00:34] researchers in Colorado are finding
[00:00:36] finding a surprising way to raise
[00:00:39] raise money for their marmot research.
[00:00:50] research. Hello, I'm Carl Nasman, Nasman, welcome to the programme. programme. We begin with the renewed
[00:00:54] renewed push to reopen the Strait Strait of Hormuz. Tehran says that
[00:00:57] that it's close to finalising a deal deal with Oman on a new shipping shipping route, saying it would only
[00:01:01] only go ahead if certain third parties parties don't obstruct the process.
[00:01:04] process. While the details have not not been made public, the Iranian
[00:01:07] Iranian Foreign Ministry claimed claimed that the deal allows Iran
[00:01:10] Iran to retain control of that critical critical waterway. The US has yet
[00:01:13] yet to comment on the announcement, announcement, but has previously
[00:01:16] previously said that Iranian control
[00:01:19] control would be unacceptable. Well, Well, in his first meeting with his
[00:01:22] his US counterpart Marco Rubio, the the new UK Foreign Secretary said
[00:01:25] said that Britain would work with with the US to secure a lasting cease
[00:01:29] cease fire in the Iraq war and reopen reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But
[00:01:32] But in a broadcast interview after after the meeting, Ed Miliband insisted
[00:01:36] insisted that the UK would never never take part in offensive military
[00:01:40] military action. He spoke to our our correspondent Helena Humphrey,
[00:01:42] Humphrey, who asked him what he and
[00:01:44] and Marco Rubio achieved. Well. The
[00:01:47] The number one priority for this this government is to tackle the
[00:01:49] the cost of living crisis that people
[00:01:52] people are facing. And my job as as Foreign Secretary most immediately
[00:01:56] immediately is to work with our closest closest ally, the United States,
[00:01:58] States, on getting a ceasefire and
[00:02:01] and a lasting ceasefire in relation
[00:02:04] relation to the Iran war. Now we we are working night and day to try
[00:02:07] try and make that happen. That was was a large part of our discussions
[00:02:11] discussions today. I am hopeful that
[00:02:14] that this may happen, but we are are not there yet and we've got to
[00:02:17] to do everything we can to get this this ceasefire in place. The work
[00:02:21] work between Iran and Oman is obviously obviously crucial to that, but then
[00:02:24] then we've got to make sure it is is an enduring ceasefire, that we
[00:02:28] we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well, Well, earlier I spoke to Alan Eyre,
[00:02:31] Eyre, a former US diplomat who helped helped negotiate the Iran nuclear
[00:02:34] nuclear deal. I began by asking what what he makes of those reports of
[00:02:37] of a possible Iran Oman agreement agreement to reopen the Strait of
[00:02:41] of Hormuz. Well, I'm heartened to to find out that the United States
[00:02:44] States is finally bowing to the inevitable. inevitable. The US couldn't keep
[00:02:48] keep the strait open by force. So
[00:02:51] So maritime traffic will go through through it with Iranian sufferance
[00:02:54] sufferance only. That's unpleasant, unpleasant, but it's unavoidable.
[00:02:57] unavoidable. And this deal seems
[00:02:59] seems to encapsulate that unfortunate
[00:03:02] unfortunate but inevitable new normal
[00:03:04] normal of Iran having control over
[00:03:07] over maritime traffic going through through the strait. You call this
[00:03:11] this inevitable? How do you think think a deal like this would be received
[00:03:14] received by the US and the international international community as well?
[00:03:17] well? We heard there Ed Miliband Miliband spelling out that this is,
[00:03:20] is, you know, something that that that many people, including the UK., UK., want to see the reopening of
[00:03:23] of the Strait of Hormuz. Well, that's that's an easy question, Carl. Everyone
[00:03:27] Everyone hates it except Iran. Iran
[00:03:31] Iran is existential. It's a red line line because it gives them strategic
[00:03:35] strategic deterrence over what they they expect to happen. If they don't
[00:03:38] don't have strategic deterrence. deterrence. Future US and Israeli
[00:03:41] Israeli attacks. So truly unfortunate.
[00:03:44] unfortunate. A massive step backward.
[00:03:46] backward. The US is fighting a war
[00:03:49] war to try to restore the status status quo to what it was before
[00:03:51] before the war. And we've failed.
[00:03:53] failed. Do you see this as a concession
[00:03:56] concession to Iran. As a concession,
[00:03:59] concession, as a concession? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. What
[00:04:03] What happened was Iran was willing
[00:04:06] willing to take a lot of pain and
[00:04:08] and the US could not inflict enough
[00:04:10] enough military pain on Iran for
[00:04:13] for Iran to, to move its red line.
[00:04:15] line. And paradoxically, the more
[00:04:17] more pressure we put on Iran, the
[00:04:20] the more essential Iran deemed it
[00:04:22] it to maintain control control of
[00:04:24] of the Strait of Hormuz. So yeah, yeah, this is a massive own goal
[00:04:28] goal by the United States. It's going
[00:04:31] going to have significant consequences
[00:04:32] consequences for years and years. years. Hopefully, you know, in the
[00:04:36] the mid to long-term, maybe some some of this could be walked back.
[00:04:40] back. But in the short-term, at least
[00:04:42] least we lost. In terms of what we're
[00:04:45] we're hearing. This sounds like a
[00:04:47] a temporary deal, maybe 60 days get
[00:04:50] get the strait reopened. What do do you think happens after that?
[00:04:53] that? There are still significant significant issues. Of course you
[00:04:56] you helped negotiate the JCPoA, the the nuclear programme not dealt with
[00:05:00] with here. What do you anticipate anticipate might have to happen after
[00:05:03] after that? That 60 day period? Well,
[00:05:06] Well, Iran is not going to give up
[00:05:08] up control after 60 days. There will
[00:05:11] will be subsequent Omani Iranian Iranian negotiations about the longer
[00:05:15] longer term future of the strait strait past 60 days. The only thing
[00:05:18] thing that seems likely is there there won't be tolling or service
[00:05:21] service charges by Iran for 60 days, days, and the tolling part of it
[00:05:25] it for Iran is of secondary importance.
[00:05:28] importance. What Iran wants and is
[00:05:30] is insisting on is operational control
[00:05:32] control of the strait. What comes
[00:05:34] comes after that? Nothing. The US
[00:05:36] US is not going to be able to do
[00:05:38] do a nuclear deal with Iran unless unless it takes the same deal that
[00:05:42] that Iran had on the table when we
[00:05:46] we attacked February 28th. If the
[00:05:47] the US is willing to do that, maybe
[00:05:50] maybe there's a nuclear deal. But But my sense is that the US just
[00:05:54] just wants to extricate itself from from this quagmire, declare victory
[00:05:57] victory and move on to something
[00:05:58] something else. Now, the US has used
[00:06:01] used nearly all of its global stockpile stockpile of long range precision
[00:06:05] precision missiles in its war with with Iran. That's according to reporting
[00:06:07] reporting by our media partners CBS
[00:06:09] CBS News. While weapons stockpile
[00:06:12] stockpile numbers are classified, classified, recent analysis estimates
[00:06:15] estimates that the US had around
[00:06:19] around 2330 of the Patriot interceptors interceptors before that conflict conflict with Iran began. By late
[00:06:22] late July that have fallen to around around 800. That's according to the
[00:06:26] the Washington based think tank, tank, the centre for Strategic and
[00:06:29] and International Studies. In a statement statement to CBS News, the Pentagon Pentagon says the US military has
[00:06:33] has the capabilities it needs to to carry out any mission ordered
[00:06:36] ordered by the President. This all all comes amid mixed messages from
[00:06:39] from the White House about whether
[00:06:41] whether it intends to supply Ukraine
[00:06:44] Ukraine with those Patriot Air defence
[00:06:46] defence interceptors or licence the the country to make them itself.
[00:06:49] itself. Earlier, I spoke to our White White House reporter Bernd Debusmann
[00:06:52] Debusmann Junior, and I began by by asking what he's learned about
[00:06:55] about the state of those stockpiles stockpiles and what the administration administration has been saying. Well,
[00:06:58] Well, even. If they don't announce
[00:07:02] announce specifics, there are pretty pretty firm estimates that, broadly broadly speaking, these air defence
[00:07:06] defence weapons, the Patriot and and the Thad, which is a higher altitude
[00:07:09] altitude weapon, they've gone down down by half or as much as two thirds.
[00:07:12] thirds. And that really calls into into question the US capacity to
[00:07:16] to sustain a full-scale conflict, conflict, whether that be a renewed
[00:07:19] renewed conflict with Iran, such such as we saw during Operation Epic
[00:07:22] Epic Fury or potentially even further
[00:07:25] further afield if Taiwan, for example, example, were to be the scene of
[00:07:28] of a major conflict between China China and the United States. Those Those weapons would be very much
[00:07:32] much needed. And of course, it does does limit how much the US can do
[00:07:35] do in the short-term to help Ukraine Ukraine as it faces these repeated
[00:07:39] repeated Russian drone and ballistic ballistic missile attacks almost
[00:07:41] almost every night. Well, President President Zelensky says Ukraine's
[00:07:44] Ukraine's supplies of air defence defence missiles from abroad have
[00:07:48] have dropped threefold compared with with the same period last year. He He was speaking after Russian strikes
[00:07:51] strikes killed at least 21 people people overnight, including 17 in
[00:07:55] in Kyiv and one of the deadliest deadliest waves of strikes this year.
[00:07:58] year. Russia has launched up to 83% 83% more missiles at Ukraine this
[00:08:02] this month compared to the same period period last year. That's according
[00:08:05] according to an analysis from BBC BBC Verify. Meanwhile, UK Defence
[00:08:09] Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has has met President Zelensky in Kyiv
[00:08:12] Kyiv to discuss mobilising international international support for Ukraine's
[00:08:16] Ukraine's defence. Our Ukraine correspondent correspondent Dan Johnson reports
[00:08:19] reports now from Kyiv. Kyiv hasn't
[00:08:24] hasn't seen a night like this for
[00:08:26] for weeks. A deadly wave of ballistic ballistic missiles that came with
[00:08:30] with little warning and no chance
[00:08:33] chance of interception. It wasn't wasn't just Kyiv, but this city felt
[00:08:37] felt the worst impact. Warehouses Warehouses seem to have been the
[00:08:41] the main target, but homes were also
[00:08:43] also hit. We had the third floor, floor, we had the roof. So another
[00:08:47] another floor. Yeah, it was another another floor. On the edge of the
[00:08:50] the city. Anastasia is trying to
[00:08:51] to work out if there's anything left.
[00:08:54] left. It was so scary. I must say
[00:08:57] say this was my scariest night during
[00:08:59] during the five years. My scariest
[00:09:01] scariest night. At the nearby railway
[00:09:04] railway station, seven warehouse warehouse workers and a child were
[00:09:07] were killed, having been evacuated evacuated from their building when
[00:09:09] when the sirens sounded, there were were 28 ballistic missiles fired
[00:09:13] fired by Russia last night, none none of them intercepted by Ukrainian
[00:09:17] Ukrainian air defences. Is that because because they've run out of interceptors? interceptors? Is it because they're
[00:09:21] they're having to ration their supplies supplies so carefully, given the
[00:09:25] the shortage, Ukraine's president president called his military advisers
[00:09:28] advisers together and he was clear. clear. Lives are being lost because
[00:09:31] because his country doesn't have
[00:09:32] have enough missile interceptors.
[00:09:36] interceptors. We recognised that that this is a major challenge. We
[00:09:39] We made it through a difficult winter,
[00:09:41] winter, but the reduction in supplies supplies became more noticeable with
[00:09:45] with each passing month. Today we we are facing a clear shortage. Secretary,
[00:09:49] Secretary, welcome. So nice to see see you. Nice to see you. Also in
[00:09:52] in Ukraine's capital, the new British British Defence Secretary bringing
[00:09:55] bringing moral support but no guarantees.
[00:09:58] guarantees. We've been looking very very closely at Ukraine's requirements.
[00:10:01] requirements. We're working through through a whole list of those requirements
[00:10:05] requirements where the UK has the the ability to provide. We will and
[00:10:08] and where we don't. It's my job to to mobilise the international community
[00:10:12] community to step up. Another warehouse
[00:10:15] warehouse was ablaze south of Moscow Moscow last night. The next round
[00:10:19] round of Ukraine's attacks on Russia's Russia's biggest online retailer,
[00:10:22] retailer, the Wildberries distribution distribution network, has been under under repeated assault in recent
[00:10:26] recent weeks. Its workers have been
[00:10:29] been killed. So were seven Russian
[00:10:33] Russian holidaymakers at this beach
[00:10:35] beach on Monday. Struck by a long
[00:10:39] long range Ukrainian drone believed believed to have been shot down.
[00:10:42] down. The Kremlin claims its citizens
[00:10:44] citizens are being deliberately targeted.
[00:10:46] targeted. Ukrainians insist not.
[00:10:49] not. But as this war ramps up, Vladimir Vladimir Putin shuffled his military
[00:10:52] military leadership, announcing a a new head of drone forces to counter
[00:10:56] counter the growing threat. It is
[00:10:58] is though the people of Ukraine who who have been reminded that their
[00:11:02] their skies remain vulnerable. And And that's going to mean more nervous
[00:11:06] nervous nights ahead. Dan Johnson,
[00:11:07] Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv. Coming
[00:11:10] Coming up, researchers are turning turning to unconventional means to
[00:11:15] to get funding for marmots. You don't don't want to miss that
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[00:12:23] Business Weekly on BBC News. Live
[00:12:30] Live with BBC News. Fifa's leadership leadership has issued an apology
[00:12:33] apology for the division caused by by Johnny Infantino's controversial
[00:12:35] controversial plan to sell stakes stakes of Fifa to private equity
[00:12:38] equity investors. It comes after after what Fifa called productive
[00:12:42] productive crisis talks with its its senior officials in Morocco.
[00:12:45] Morocco. BBC sport's Mark Benstead
[00:12:46] Benstead has more. Busy all day.
[00:12:49] day. Gianni Infantino will remain remain as Fifa president for now
[00:12:52] now after he received the backing backing of senior executives in a
[00:12:55] a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday. Wednesday. Infantino's been under under fire for his plans to sell
[00:12:59] sell off stakes in competitions including including the World Cup, to private
[00:13:02] private investors. As you mentioned mentioned in a statement after the
[00:13:06] the meeting, the Fifa Management Management Board acknowledged the
[00:13:09] the need for improved processes around around communications. Apologise
[00:13:11] Apologise for mistakes but said they
[00:13:13] they will not tolerate any attacks attacks on its integrity. Let's pull
[00:13:16] pull up some of the key lines from from that statement then. Firstly,
[00:13:20] Firstly, it says the Fifa Secretary Secretary General and members of
[00:13:23] of the Fifa Management Board in attendance attendance reaffirmed their full
[00:13:26] full support for Fifa president Gianni Gianni Infantino as the only official
[00:13:30] official elected by the 211 Fifa Fifa member associations regarding
[00:13:34] regarding the forward enterprise enterprise proposal. That's the plan
[00:13:36] plan to invite that private investment. investment. It said it was agreed
[00:13:40] agreed that it was not the intention intention for the Fifa Council and
[00:13:43] and Fifa members associations to to feel excluded from the process
[00:13:46] process and that the process should should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
[00:13:50] acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
[00:13:53] was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
[00:13:56] always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve
[00:13:59] improve its processes in light of of this experience. In this instance, instance, however, it is important
[00:14:03] important to stress that although although mistakes were made, everything everything that was done was done
[00:14:07] done in full compliance with the
[00:14:09] the Fifa regulatory framework and and on the criticism that has come
[00:14:12] come the way of Fifa. They say that that they will no longer tolerate
[00:14:15] tolerate any attacks on its integrity, integrity, good governance and due
[00:14:19] due process and crucially, will take take all necessary measures to protect
[00:14:22] protect and safeguard its name and
[00:14:25] and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
[00:14:28] someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
[00:14:32] for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
[00:14:35] 18th to put their names forward.
[00:14:37] forward. Now for. 26 days. Sonam
[00:14:39] Sonam Wangchuk went on a hunger strike
[00:14:41] strike in India in support of the the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands
[00:14:45] thousands of students as they demanded demanded change after leaking of
[00:14:48] of crucial exam papers. His hunger hunger strike ended after he received
[00:14:52] received guarantees from India's India's government that there would would be changes to the country's
[00:14:55] country's exam system and protections protections for peaceful student
[00:14:58] student protesters who'd been arrested. arrested. He's been speaking to Rajini
[00:15:02] Rajini Vaidyanathan, the BBC's NewsHour NewsHour programme, in his first
[00:15:05] first broadcast interview since those
[00:15:07] those protests ended, Rajini asked asked how much Prime Minister Narendra
[00:15:11] Narendra Modi has been weakened by by the movement. Terribly, terribly.
[00:15:15] terribly. I mean, people can't even
[00:15:18] even imagine what's happening now. now. Every part of the country, people
[00:15:22] people are raising voice, not just
[00:15:25] just generation Gen Z, but Gen Alpha
[00:15:28] Alpha school boys and girls are raising raising their school issues and getting
[00:15:32] getting them resolved. Remote places
[00:15:35] places to different states. People
[00:15:37] People are rising up to, remove these,
[00:15:44] these, injustices in the, employment
[00:15:45] employment systems, examination systems,
[00:15:48] systems, more in the education arena
[00:15:49] arena now, but actually it cuts across,
[00:15:53] across, various fields. And you may
[00:15:55] may have heard yesterday in Bihar,
[00:15:59] Bihar, the ruling party lost two
[00:16:01] two of the three seats that had by
[00:16:03] by elections. So the entire atmosphere
[00:16:05] atmosphere in the country has switched. switched. And Prime Minister Modi
[00:16:09] Modi has always presented himself
[00:16:11] himself as India's strong man, hasn't
[00:16:13] hasn't he? He would possibly take
[00:16:16] take issue with the fact that this this has weakened his government.
[00:16:19] government. He still has a lot of
[00:16:21] of support. Why do you think this this particular wave of protests
[00:16:25] protests is different? There was
[00:16:29] was a sense of fear earlier. You You know, it was mostly dealing with
[00:16:33] with grown ups, middle aged people
[00:16:35] people who had too much to lose.
[00:16:38] lose. Businesses were scared of,
[00:16:41] of, raids by enforcement agencies agencies who would do randomly to
[00:16:45] to people who they had any issues issues with, who didn't agree to
[00:16:48] to who raised their voice. So all
[00:16:50] all grown ups were beaten into, fear.
[00:16:55] fear. So there was no voice. Almost.
[00:16:59] Almost. And this movement because
[00:17:02] because it, was by young people who
[00:17:04] who had hardly anything to lose.
[00:17:06] lose. Gen Z or people like me who
[00:17:09] who had already faced all that one
[00:17:11] one could face, at the hands of the
[00:17:13] the government jail and raids by
[00:17:16] by government agencies, everything. everything. So we had nothing to
[00:17:19] to lose. We had no fear. And that's that's what spread across the country.
[00:17:22] country. And today people are raising
[00:17:26] raising voice and maybe, they feel
[00:17:28] feel and rightly so that they don't don't have that control. But I always
[00:17:32] always thought the best way to have,
[00:17:34] have, you know, control or power
[00:17:37] power is through love and, in return
[00:17:41] return love from the people by ensuring
[00:17:44] ensuring a just and, fear free, governance,
[00:17:49] governance, hopefully they'll mend
[00:17:50] mend their ways this time. It stopped
[00:17:53] stopped at education ministry, but,
[00:17:55] but, if this continues, I think the
[00:17:57] the younger generation and the people,
[00:17:59] people, may not stop at just education.
[00:18:02] education. You talk about the young young people not stopping education.
[00:18:05] education. We saw a lot of placards, placards, didn't we, at those protests
[00:18:09] protests calling for the Prime Minister Minister to step down as well. Do
[00:18:12] Do you still think he is the right
[00:18:14] right person to govern India? I would
[00:18:17] would give them the chance to mend
[00:18:19] mend their ways. I always believe
[00:18:22] believe in people realising their their mistakes and amending their
[00:18:26] their ways, so I would give them them that chance. But if it goes
[00:18:29] goes back to the ways that I suffered, suffered, you know, for the last
[00:18:33] last 2 or 3 years and if nothing
[00:18:36] nothing changes, then yes, people people have the right to say that
[00:18:39] that we don't accept this kind of
[00:18:41] of governance. We want a free and,
[00:18:46] and, just democratic governance in in this country. Well, back here
[00:18:49] here in the US., the progressive progressive political outsider Doctor
[00:18:52] Doctor Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Michigan's Democratic primary, defeating
[00:18:56] defeating the establishment centrist centrist candidate, Congresswoman
[00:18:58] Congresswoman Haley Stevens in his his victory speech, El-Sayed vowed
[00:19:01] vowed that the Democratic Party stands stands united moving forward. He
[00:19:05] He also addressed the sharp focus focus on Israel and Gaza that factored
[00:19:09] factored into that primary
[00:19:13] race. Listening to sisters and brothers brothers who said, you know, I want want to join this movement because
[00:19:15] because AIPAC doesn't speak for me
[00:19:18] me because I understand that self-determination self-determination for one people
[00:19:22] people does not require the quenching quenching of self-determination for
[00:19:26] for another people that unless all all of us are free, none of us are
[00:19:29] are free. I want to tell you the the great gift that you've given
[00:19:32] given me. And to all of my sisters
[00:19:35] sisters and brothers of the Jewish Jewish faith or any faith at all,
[00:19:38] all, or no faith at all, I want you you to know that my commitment to
[00:19:42] to your safety, my commitment to to Jewish safety is the same commitment
[00:19:45] commitment that I have to the safety
[00:19:47] safety of my own daughters. Yeah,
[00:19:51] Yeah, I'll say it. They're referring referring to AIPAC, of course, the
[00:19:54] the pro-Israel lobbying group there. there. He'll now face the Republican Republican Mike Rogers in November's
[00:19:58] November's mid-term elections. The The seat, which was left empty by
[00:20:01] by the retiring senator Gary Peters, Peters, is widely seen as a must-win
[00:20:04] must-win for Democrats if they want want to gain control of the Senate.
[00:20:08] Senate. If El Sayed wins, he would would become the first Muslim senator
[00:20:12] senator in US history. I spoke with with the CBS political correspondent
[00:20:15] correspondent Ed O'Keefe on Michigan's Michigan's Senate primary and the
[00:20:18] the future of the Democratic
[00:20:23] Party. Well, this is one of those those contests that is helping define define what it is. It means to be
[00:20:26] be a Democrat in the second era of
[00:20:29] of President Trump as they try to to take back at least some control
[00:20:32] control in Washington. This state's
[00:20:34] state's two Senate seats are held held by Democrats, and they need
[00:20:37] need to hold on to this one and one one down in Georgia. Plus, find a
[00:20:40] a way to win four other Republican Republican held seats in order to
[00:20:43] to get back the majority in the US US Senate. The upper chamber that
[00:20:47] that is a tall order in any year, year, but it will be especially this
[00:20:50] this year, given the kind of money money that has to be spent in these these big states to make that happen.
[00:20:54] happen. So what kind of Democrat Democrat do Michigan Democrats want?
[00:20:57] want? Do they want a more establishment,
[00:21:01] establishment, moderate member of of their party or someone who's a
[00:21:04] a little more progressive? And while while they may not consider themselves
[00:21:07] themselves a socialist campaigns campaigns alongside them, ultimately ultimately they decided they want
[00:21:11] want something new that younger progressive progressive who says he's a capitalist
[00:21:15] capitalist even though he campaigns campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders
[00:21:18] Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez and others, and he
[00:21:22] he narrowly pulled it off, in part part because voters tell us across
[00:21:25] across this state they don't know know what the Democratic Party brand
[00:21:27] brand is any more other than perhaps perhaps we're not Republicans, they
[00:21:31] they say. And so El-Sayed had a pretty pretty basic argument he was making
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[00:21:38] pocket and Medicare for all. In other
[00:21:41] other words, universal health care care in a country that doesn't have
[00:21:44] have it. It seemed to work with enough enough Democrats. And we'll see ultimately,
[00:21:48] ultimately, if he can continue making making that argument ahead of the
[00:21:51] the election 13 weeks from now in in November. Yeah, that is the question, question, isn't it? Whether or not
[00:21:55] not the message can stay the same, same, whether or not El-Sayed will
[00:21:58] will have to move more towards the the centre come November. In fact,
[00:22:00] fact, we heard President Trump saying
[00:22:03] saying that his win today is great
[00:22:06] great news for the Republican Party. Party. They would argue that running
[00:22:10] running against somebody who has has aligned himself with the further
[00:22:13] further left is an easier battle
[00:22:15] battle in a state that often holds
[00:22:19] holds really close 5,149% kind of of political contest that in that
[00:22:23] that situation, perhaps the Republican Republican ultimately can do better better because they'll peel off more
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[00:22:30] he told us earlier this week in an an interview, he said, look, this
[00:22:34] this isn't a state that necessarily
[00:22:36] necessarily elects moderate or centre centre political candidates because
[00:22:40] because it elected Donald Trump twice twice in 2016 and in 2024 he lost
[00:22:44] lost to Joe Biden here narrowly in in 2020. And what was Trump doing
[00:22:48] doing then? He said, but suggesting suggesting that he would revolutionise
[00:22:51] revolutionise the federal government government and really reshape Washington Washington well, he said that's what
[00:22:55] what I'm trying to do now in the the wake of what Donald Trump has
[00:22:58] has wrought over the last 18 months months or so, higher prices, a war
[00:23:02] war with Iran that nobody in the the United States really asked for
[00:23:05] for continued conflict in Israel Israel and concerns that things are
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[00:23:18] will turn around and paint him as as extremist, say that somebody who
[00:23:21] who is so critical of Israel should
[00:23:24] should not serve in the United States
[00:23:26] States Senate. And we'll see ultimately ultimately which argument prevails.
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