The News Agents - USA

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 in...

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, t...

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 Tru...

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 t...

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 epis...

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...

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 The...

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...

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 m...

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 -...

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...

A bonus episode of The News Agents: USA as Ron DeSantis drops out of the presidential race and endorses the man that's ridiculed him for months on end - Donald Trump. He's kissed the ring - 6 days after slagging people off for being spineless enough to do just that. With just one state having voted, and another voting tomorrow Tuesday (New Hampshire) - is Nikki Haley, the only candidate left - toa...

Last night in Iowa saw many firsts. The coldest caucus on record and the biggest lead by the winner. Trump secured his win just 31 minutes after the polls closed. His nearest rivals, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley trailed him by 30 odd points. So is the contest over? Can anything change the trajectory of Trump? And what does this tell us about the state of the Republican party and what will happen n...

The US 2024 election calendar kicks off in earnest this week as the wannabee Republican nominees head to Iowa. Trump is making a quick pit stop via the courts - to tell them to grant him immunity from prosecution. And Nikki Haley is trying a novel tactic of pissing off the Iowan voters by telling them that New Hampshire knows better. Meanwhile, Biden is reminding America Trump is a threat to democ...

Could California exit the union? Could Trump try for three terms? Would proportional representation ever work in America? And what were we doing on a soup-making course before the New Hampshire primary? Your brilliant questions, our valiant and occasionally pathetic attempt at answers as we see out the pre-election presidential year of America 2023. Editor: Gabriel Radus Social Media Editor: Georg...

The viral clip of Harvard President Dr. Claudine Gay - unable to condemn those on campus calling for genocide - has kicked off a wider debate about academic freedom and double standards. The president of University of Pennsylvania - who offered similar responses - has now resigned. On today’s episode we talk to Columbia Professor of History Simon Sharma about campus culture war and how it’s affect...

Donald Trump is warning of the dangers to democracy posed by 'corrupt' Joe Biden. It almost sounds ironic. But Trump doesn’t do irony - he's more into inciting violence. Today we speak to former US ambassador Matthew Barzan who worked on the two Obama campaigns. How dangerous is the threat of a Trump presidency in 2024, and, what does it actually look like? The News Agents USA is brought to you by...

What has the temporary pause in Gaza done for Biden's standing amongst young voters? What did Mike Pence really say about certifying Joe Biden as president? And what does Sean Spicer (ex White House Press Secretary) make of what happened to his former boss Donald Trump after he stopped working for him? We ask him. All that - cohosted between London and the Carribean with our beach correspondent Jo...

We're on the ground in California to understand why young voters are turning their backs on Joe Biden - and how this could well consolidate Donald Trump's path back to the White House next year. We also talk to the Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Report, Amy Walter. And - is Thanksgiving a waste of time? Jon and Emily discuss (well, disagree). Editor: Gabriel Radus Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell...

Every time abortion rights are on the ballot, the Democrat candidates do well. That’s been the story since Roe v Wade was overturned 18 months ago. And republicans are beginning to panic. Do they have a plan to win back voters? Does it include a softer stance? Also today we hear from a Republican and a Democrat formerly in Congress. If Biden is doing so well, where is the enthusiasm? Loretta Sanch...

Emily reports from Georgia, the eye of the Donald Trump legal storm, where he was caught on tape trying to get an election official to 'find' him more votes to win the 2020 election. A year out from 2024, is this purple state closer to staying blue or turning MAGA red? The latter could tip the election in Trump's favour. And we cross state lines to the hometown of the woman who could capitalise sh...

We have an exclusive interview on today’s episode with the senior senator from Utah - Mike Lee - who ranks as America’s No1 most conservative senator - in the 538/NY Times poll. We talk to him about the Republican Party, the new speaker, and why he tried to help Donald Trump secure an election he had lost. Later - why did Mike Pence drop out of the Presidential race? And ... who is Dean Phillips??...

The race for the crucial role of Speaker of the House is in disarray. Republican representatives are tearing each other apart. Trump's former lawyers are pleading guilty to election interference in the Georgia trial - each a further potential nail in the Trump legal coffin. And, out of all this a name is emerging - Liz Cheney who, we understand, is weighing up whether to take Trump on as the Repub...

Joe Biden is heading head-first into an active warzone. The 80-year-old is travelling to Israel tomorrow to begin brokering the toughest negotiation of his presidency - in an attempt to restore relative calm and peace in the Middle East. It's a dangerous, herculean task that has the potential for domestic and foreign backlash. It will require every ounce of his weighty diplomatic might. We speak t...

Just one week ago Kevin McCarthy was booted unceremoniously out of his job as House Speaker. No one could have foreseen then how different the world would look four days later when Hamas wreaked tragedy across Israel. Now there’s a power vacuum in Washington and an unfolding catastrophe in the Middle East. What power does America have to help? Biden U-turns and starts to build more border wall in...