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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 the South - with cries of hypocrisy from the right and anger from parts of his own party in the left.
And later - the rise of another Kennedy? Robert Kennedy Junior - conspiracist and now independent candidate for the presidency - thinks he can win. Blimey.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, is ousted by his own party. The first time it's happened in US history. It's the start of a Republican civil war.
Why has it happened? Because he dared to find compromise with the Democrats.
What is going on in that party?
What does it tell us about the chance of the parties ever working together?
And later, Trump is on trial in New York. It’s a civil case that could cost him millions and see him stripped of assets, hotels and businesses. Trump and the courts meet once more.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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The second Republican debate threw up a lot of sound and fury.
But perhaps it revealed futility more then anything else.
Seven Republican candidates met on stage to battle it our for the nomination. It is incredibly unlikely it will be any of them will win.
Meanwhile Donald Trump is with car workers in Detroit. He’s already trying to fight the general election against Biden. Will anything - even a court ruling finding him guilty of decades-long fraud - get in his way?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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It's debate night, second time round in California on Wednesday night. Trump is MIA, again - instead going to fight for blue collar workers by going to Michigan.
Emily and Jon will be back in your feeds on Thursday morning digesting all this - see you then!
Russell Brand famously hated big tech. He ranted about their power as recently as last year. Yet now, he’s all over the websites he purports to despise - YouTube, TikTok, Rumble. How has he reinvented himself as an alt-right interviewer.
And we ask why Donald Trump has changed his position on abortion. Is he already fighting the general election on the airwaves?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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Putin has called Trump politically persecuted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has opened an impeachment inquiry into the president, and Joe Biden has saved the economy but now just wants to go to bed.
It's another normal week in America. David Frum - former speechwriter for George W. Bush - joins us and we ask if any of this is moving the state of political play.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
You can listen to this episode on Alexa - just say "Alexa, ask Global Player to play The News Agents USA".
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The 14th Amendment is not something anyone has discussed much since the 1800s.
But right now it's the talk of the town.
It includes a post-civil war clause that bars anyone from holding public office if they've engaged in an insurrection or rebellion.
Right now, there are lawyers, academics and die-hard constitutionalists who are working out if there's a legal channel to remove Trump's name from any electoral ballot on the grounds he tried to overturn democracy on January 6th 2020. We speak to a Watergate special prosecutor about what could happen. And we look at the Republican move to launch an impeachment enquiry into Joe Biden. Do they have evidence of wrong doing?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
The News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production.
On Saturday, a 21-year-old killed three people in Jacksonville, Florida, in a racist hate crime. 60 years on from Martin Luther King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech, and three years on from the killing of George Floyd, why does America seem to always go 'two steps forward and then two steps back'? And do the GOP frontrunners have a handle of the problem of racial discrimination in America?
We ask Ron Christie, Republican strategist who's father used to vandalise segregationist signs in 1960s America.
And.. Trump's court date for election interference is set for early March. The day before the biggest day in the race to be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate for 2024. That'll be some week.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
The News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production.
There were eight candidates on stage last night in Milwaukee all vying for the Republican nomination to be president.
But the man who’ll almost certainly get it was locked in a rambling conspiracy heavy chinwag with his recently sacked Fox friend Tucker Carlson.
Who won the debate on stage? Will any of it shift the dial? And will they still pledge loyalty to Trump if he’s convicted of a crime ?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
The News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production.
It's debate night in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. The big hitters of the Republican Party will all be there, fighting it out in the first chance to be on the same stage together. That is, all bar one, notable frontrunner; former President Donald Trump.
Emily and Jon will be back in your feeds on Thursday morning digesting the overnight debate. See you then!
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