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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: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly
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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 affecting wider party politics.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly
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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?
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Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly
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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 Jon Sopel.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon
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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
Video Production: Rory Symon
Newsgathering by Nick Charles Currie in Los Angeles, CA.
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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 Sanchez (D-CA) and Greg Walden (R-OR) join us, having spent the week working in the UK with the Eccles Centre and the British Library to try and convince people in the UK that the US still believes in bipartisan rhetoric.
And what was Trump doing calling the voters ‘vermin’. Is he reminding America that the authoritarian storngman with anti-democratic beliefs is well and truly back?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producers: Arvind Badewal & Jack McKay
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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 should a jail cell call for the Donald. Nikki Haley. Could she prove to be the Republican nominee come election day?
And...Jon is in Paris, France- and he's nabbed the Mayor of Detroit - Mike Duggan. Don't ask how. He talks to the man in charge of a crucial blue city in a crucial swing state.
Editor & Field Producer: Gabriel Radus
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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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??
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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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 Republican's choice for president.
Could she be about to enter the race ?
We speak to someone who knows her well.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Producer: Phoebe Dampare-Osei
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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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 to General David Petraeus, formerly the head of the CIA - and military historian Andrew Roberts. They've just co-authored a book about modern warfare called Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. It may well need a new chapter soon.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Rory Symon
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