The News Agents - USA

The News Agents - USA

Join Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel in a weekly podcast that unpicks everything you need to know about the world of US politics - all of it delivered with Emily and Jon’s astute analysis, world-class insight and wry sense of humour. Episodes are available every Tuesday/Wednesday. The News Agents USA is a Global Player Original podcast and production.

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May 21, 2024 30 mins

American legislators in the House are hurling personal insults at each other - meanwhile Biden and Trump have committed to debate each other on TV and Trump is using an attack ad - a riff off of a Tom Petty song- to accuse Biden of “free falling“.

What has happened to rational discourse in America?

Editor: Gabriel Radus

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Production: Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal

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If the adult porn director Stormy Daniels was the star witness of the Trump trial last week, this week it got even hotter. Trump's former fixer, friend and lawyer took the stand.

Except now, Michael Cohen is no friend of Trump. What's more, he's a convicted felon, a liar and a perjurer. Will his presence as a key witness help or hinder the prosecution?And does it matter that he's told a jury he'd like to see Trump jailed?

Later, why...

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In a surprise move, the sex worker and pornstar Stormy Daniels appeared as a witness yesterday in the trial of Donald Trump to reveal details of the night they spent together in a Nevada hotel room.

The details were specific, and to some ears rather lurid - and included a description of her beating him on the backside with a rolled up magazine. None of this is illegal - but what might be is the money she alleges he paid her to hush...

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Is Trump above the law and should he have immunity from a case involving his actions around the January 6th insurrection?

That's what the Supreme Court has spent the last week arguing about. Amazingly, they might be making a case for why he checks notes... IS immune.

We hear from The New York Times Supreme Court supremo Adam Liptak.

Later is Joe Biden wise to joke about his age at the White House Correspondents Dinner?

And why did ...

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Later in the show...Why are teachers now being given guns in Tennessee schools?

We start this episode with the astonishing testimony of former Trump ally David Pecker - who ran the National Enquirer tabloids - and freuquently bought up the embarassing stories about Trump to save him face when he was running for president in 2016.

Was this against the law? Does it hurt Trump's defence?

And why does Trump keep slagging off his critics...

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How do you pick a jury of right-minded individuals to pass a fair verdict on Donald Trump?

His lawyers say it's impossible, that this trial is a witch hunt, that he's been gagged AND denied the chance to go to his son's graduation.

Meanwhile, the judge has just carried on. They're selecting a jury which will witness the first ever criminal trial of a former US president.

We talk to criminal defence attorney - and hardened New Yorke...

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David Cameron flew to Washington to try and seek more funding for Ukraine. But he's been snubbed by the House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Was it hubristic to think he could change minds in America? What happens to Ukraine now?

But we start with what happened dramatically, overnight in America where the state of Arizona has just brought BACK an abortion ban dating from 1864.

How popular will this antebellum law be? And could women's rights...

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Trump‘s Truth Social company has plunged in value on the stock market after losses of more than 58 million were revealed.

Luckily, though, he still has his bible business in which he tries to flog a double whammy bible constitution combo for a neat 60 dollars.

Trump is trying to win few more Christians whilst simultaneously trying not to endorse an abortion ban that could see the Republicans lose the massive electoral state of Flor...

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Trump will face a criminal trial in front of a jury before the presidential election. He'll be the first ex-president to do so - all while he has to stump up the not so measly 175 million dollars to write off his fraudulent asset evaluations. At least it's not the original $464 million - which was knocked down at the eleventh hour on Monday. Truth Social, his social media site, looks to be earning him a pretty penny at least as it'...

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March 20, 2024 26 mins

Elon Musk has given an interview to former CNN Anchor Don Lemon. He gets quite upset when Lemon asks him why X has gone to shit under his stewardship, and whether hate speech is still welcomed on his platform.

Meanwhile, Trump is talking about a blood bath in Ohio and no one can decide whether he means the car industry or the state of democracy. Nigel Farage has got him to commit to NATO in his interview, and a new choir made of J...

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The US House have voted to force TikTok to either part ways from Chinese-owned company ByteDance or be banned in the US. Why now? Why is Trump actually not that fussed? And does this benefit or hinder Biden's efforts to capture the youth vote through social media?

This, all as Trump and Biden become the official nominees for their respective parties... though we all knew that already. Meanwhile, the pair launch their campaign ads an...

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Why did conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor-Greene tell Emily to fuck off?

What's it like to be let inside Donald Trump's Super Tuesday victory party?

What's next for Nikki Haley after she announced today that she is giving up the ghost in the Republcian Party primaries, meaning that barring an extraordinary circumstance, Trump is the GOP candidate? And why has she come out and refused to back Trump?

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We're in Richmond, Virginia for Donald Trump's last rally before he is almost certainly crowned the Republican candidate for president. But who are the voters queuing for miles to get into the sold-out event? What do they think - and what motivates them to vote for a man indicted 91 times?

We're the only foreign press able to get into the rally. The Trump team wouldn't let anyone else in. Listen to find out what it's like at the hea...

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It's been some 24 hours for Donald Trump. In one evening, he scores a major win as the Supreme Court kicks the election inteference case down the electoral road. Plus, a major congressional thorn in Trump's side, Reaganite senator Mitch McConnell announces he's stepping down as Senate Republican Leader. Trump is ever so close to total ownership of the Republican party.

We digest in this bonus episode of The News Agents - USA.

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February 28, 2024 31 mins

Fox News cut away from Trump's victory speech in South Carolina to correct his lies, in real time. And call out his election denials.

What's going on between the TV channel and their former hero - and how long will it last.

Also on the episode - why is Biden talking about a Gaza peace deal in an ice cream parlour and who is the Republican senator saying he backs the Alabama court decision to stop IVF despite wanting more children i...

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On today's episode we talk to the thorn in corporate America's side Senator Bernie Sanders.

Should Amazon exist?

Is Biden to old?

Is Trump too racist?

And how can he justify spending 200 million dollars on an election campaign?

Later, ahead of South Carolina’s primary we ask what Nikki Haley’s strategy is.

Editor: Gabriel Radus

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Production: Rory Symon

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After a deeply unedifying week of US politics we look at the choice before America in November.

Is Biden too old to stand for President?

Is Trump too corrupt?

And what happens next if the answer to both those questions is 'yes'?

On today's episode we look at the report by special counsel Robert K. Hur who calls the president a 'well-meaning elderly man' and the kind words of encouragment Trump has for Vladimir Putin.

Will any of the...

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The unanimous decision by the court of appeal in Washington has declared that Donald Trump has no presidential immunity.

This means Special Counsel Jack Smith can now proceed apace with his indictment of Trump over attempted election interference.

What does this mean for Trump legally?

What will happen to the highly debated US border deal?

And later to hear from Ambassador John Bolton on whether military intervention by the US could...

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January 30, 2024 36 mins

It's all quiet - for now - on the campaign front.

Today we ask whether republicans are prepared to scupper a cross-party border deal if they think it could help Trump in November.

And we bring you the remarkable story of E. Jean Carroll - who’s owed 83 million dollars by the Donald.

And ask if Taylor Swift can swing a US election.

PSA: If you want to hear about Biden's crisis in the Middle East - head to the Monday episode of our reg...

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Nikki Haley lost by more than ten points overnight in New Hampshire.

The Republican National Committee now wants to crown election-denier Trump as its nominee.

But Haley has made clear she’s not going to go quietly. She’s sticking around to call Trump senile and sees if he falls down any (metaphorical) stairs.

Election denier Trump meanwhile is getting really stroppy with her and, like a sad class bully, has started threatening h...

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