News editor: Canada annexation a distraction

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00:00And that's the thing, isn't it, Shane? I don't know what you think.

00:03You know, there seems to be a few more meetings ahead, a lot of diplomacy to really happen.

00:08Well, yeah, there's going to be a lot of diplomacy.

00:11And so they'll set, I think, the sort of the ground rules and the sort of flavour of it from the top.

00:15But it'll basically be the civil servants who pay the money to get the nitty gritty.

00:20But to be honest, the whole 51st state thing I don't buy anyway.

00:23I think it's sort of a distraction and it's sort of a Trumpian sort of card to play

00:28so that people will focus all the headlines on that

00:31and not really then focus on the sort of the business and the tariffs.

00:35So I think it's just, you know, at the end of the day, Trump came from a TV presenter background.

00:39So he knows what soundbites are like and he knows what people will focus on.

00:43So I don't really think the 51st state is really a sort of a credible aim.

00:49It's just sort of having a bit of fun, really. That's my opinion.