The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Ryan Fox has won The Open Championship, becoming the third Kiwi ever to take home the title.
He's been praised for his efforts by Sir Bob Charles, who won the same title sixty years ago.
Fox's coach Marcus Wheelhouse told Mike Hosking that he's still in a state of disbelief.
'Yeah, so, so many deep breaths are going on at the moment and, states of disbelief and, and excitement and yeah, all, those emotions. It's incredible.'
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 20th of July, Ryan Fox's coach Marcus Wheelhouse joins us straight after Fox's first golf major win at The Open.
The PM is back from holiday and talks the new ferries and names, councils doing deals with local iwi ahead of the law changes and when we are doing more about AI.
Jason Pine and Andrew Saville talk the Fox win, the World Cup final and it's halftime show and the Warriors as the potential minor premiership winners.
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With a war he doesn’t know how to finish it seems the Trump plan, given the Iran problem will reflect badly for him in the midterms, is to gerrymander the vote by pretending they have an emergency.
That was largely the point of Friday's speech, which contained a re-issuing of old material, none of which specifically claimed his famed 2020 election was stolen.
A couple of polls out over the weekend have;
1) His approval rating for the war and the economy down,
2) The overall view of personal financial circumstances at multi-year lows.
Americans are miserable. Oh, and import prices out over the weekend as well were way higher than expected, which of course means everything gets more expensive for those already miserable and adds to inflation.
And that’s before the 30-year fixed mortgage is now mid 6%. So once again, multi-year highs and killing any summer house-buying sentiment.
Faced with all that, stacking an election would seem the only way to move forward.
Whether he can pull it off will be interesting and worrying to watch. You wonder if at some point even the Republicans who have stayed the course with the increasing amounts of madness might see it as a bridge too far.
It looks increasingly obvious that America is run by a dictator, if not in reality, certainly in his own mind.
His whole second term has been about testing the boundaries of presidential power, mainly thanks to the Supreme Court, in a futile fashion. But the plan appears to be to try ten things and maybe win two.
An emergency around voting will be another test of the system.
Ironically this should be fertile ground for the Democrats. But they are busy pulling themselves apart as they scrap over progressive madness driven by the Mamdani brigade vs centralism as led by the likes of Gavin Newsom.
But one of the aforementioned polls only gave them a four point edge on congressional success. All that madness and corruption in the White House and you still can't muster a runaway lead?
How broken does that make the place look? Which would be fine if this was Poland or Turkey.
But it's America and America counts, which is why we should all be worried.
It can't end well.
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The latest polls from Australia are out, and it's tight at the top.
Both Labour and One Nation are polling high, whilst the Liberal coalition has taken a popularity hit. Dropping to 19%.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price says despite Pauline Hanson's holidays and controversial remarks about immigration, it hasn't changed public opinion.
He says that Hanson is 'tied for first' with Labour.
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Andrew Saville and Jason Pine join Mike Hosking to review the weekend's sport.
On the table today: Ryan Fox has won the British open.
The World Cup Final is underway - and the weekend gave us a third-place playoff of the ages.
And it's been a positive weekend for NZ Rugby, with both the ABs and Warriors winning in Auckland.
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