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In an NZ Herald exclusive, we learn that Christopher Luxon was very keen to whole heartedly support the US in their war in Iran and it took Winston Peters to step in and not allow the coalition to do so in his position as Foreign Minister. Helen Clark spoke with Ryan Bridge about that this morning

The other part of the story about the warhawkish nature of the PM is the source of this information being NZ First who released an email chain to journalists demonstrating that Winston Peters has made the call not to support the US' war in Iran in, what Nicola Willis is now calling and act of bad faith and a breach of their "no surprises" agreement as the PM had no heads up the email chain was being released

TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman has been suspended for five days from covering Parliament after breaching parliamentary press gallery rules. Speaker Gerry Brownlee made the decision on Thursday afternoon after involving himself in a dispute between the National Party and TVNZ over the alleged behaviour of two gallery reporters last week.

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Finance Minister Nicola Willis appeared on the Bradbury Group talking the free market, net core crown debt and when will the government denounce the US and Israel for this illegal war in Iran

Chris Hipkins appeared on Wellington's Newstalk ZB in one of the strangest interviews we've seen in a while. Nick Mills wanted the leader of the opposition to agree that the Luxon led government was strong and stable and then went on to chastise Hipkins because they both "know the while context" of the alleged homophobic slur used by Maiki Sherman when the opposite is true, other than those involved, currently, nobody knows the context. It was very strange.

Michel Mulipola, aka "Bloody Samoan" is the target of much right-wing pearl clutching at the moment as his language about politics is colourful and his presentation is cutting. Seems that when the right use language to speak to their base it's okay as it contains no sweary words, but when the left do it to a community of vulnerable people who don't think highly of the police and the government then all of a sudden, it's the worst thing that's happened this election cycle.

If we get time, we will also have a look at some more from the Hipkins Wellington ZB interview as they also spoke about Nicola Willis taking offense at Hipkins "medical help" comment last week and Luxon bailing on TVNZ

https://www.youtube.com/live/5HaUfngd0Sg?si=fP79eA8FgOZElaQ0

Christopher Luxon announced on Friday he would ditch TVNZ Breakfast and the newly hired Tova O'Brien. We'll take a look tonight at what everyone said when Jacinda Ardern ditched Mike Hosking and what National, NZ First and ACT had to say about her decision

Donald Trump was in another assassin plot when a wood be gunman just ran past all Trumps security but was stopped short of getting close to Trump himself

Labour still concerned about some details in the Indian FTA especially as leaders in India and NZ seems to be saying different things with concerns are not waylaid as Nicola Willis describes it as "a different turn of phrase"...and we look at the interesting headline that Stuff used for this story which focused on Labour reversing tax cuts for landlords, not the FTA issues.

A bunch of other things to cover off including Chewie and Pat seeing the movie "Sgt, Haane", Jordan Rivers explaining what Labour did and the idiot off that is happening in Trumps cabinet

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