In 2019, a cache of Kim Darroch’s private cables to London was published in the UK media. The ambassador had described the Trump administration as “dysfunctional”. Trump launched a Twitter war attacking the ambassador as “wacky”, and four days later, Darroch resigned.

The former ambassador talks to host Steve Clemons about the “chilling effect” his experience has had on British diplomats and bureaucrats, who fear retribution if they write their candid assessments to their governments.

And he talks about how he encountered two Americas in the years that he worked in the United States: “Real America” and the “Washington bubble”.

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For 14 months, retired US Army Lieutenant General McMaster held one of the most important positions in America’s national security apparatus. Now he has published a book: Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, about the threats facing American prosperity and power in the world.

McMaster says that extreme polarisation at home, paired with China’s efforts to spread its influence worldwide and Russia’s influence campaigns to sow doubt in America’s democratic institutions are chipping away at the world’s only superpower.

Watch the full interview with host Steve Clemons.

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UN Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock talks to host Steve Clemons about the challenges facing the United Nations in a disunited world.

When the UN was created by the "great powers" 75 years ago, it was meant to prevent another world war, and it has largely succeeded in that mission.

But in preventing regional wars and flareups, and securing humanitarian relief for the developing world, the UN faces an uphill battle - especially when governments are less inclined to compromise in international affairs.

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Do police reforms work?

Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, 2020 has seen what is likely the largest wave of protests in United States history: all centred on the crisis of police killing Black people.

For years, officials have introduced police reforms. But reforms have failed to stop police from killing Black people in astonishingly high numbers, people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Marqueese Alston - shot in Washington, DC in 2018.

The failure of reforms has driven protesters to a more radical demand: defund the police.

Fault Lines follows the US's moment of reckoning with racism and the police.

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Jeff Sharlet, executive producer of the Netflix docudrama, The Family, talks to Steve Clemons about the "born again" movement - the biggest voting bloc in the United States.

About one in three Americans consider themselves to be evangelicals, and despite the differences between them, they agree that the US should be a Christian nation.

President Donald Trump considers evangelicals to be the majority of his "base", and has focused his energy on the culture war, appointing conservative judges and supporting the Israeli government. Last month he said he moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem "for the Evangelicals".

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In the United States, there are more guns than people. Gun deaths are a daily occurrence, and the country is a world leader in public mass shootings.

Most attempts to curb gun ownership, control the types of weapons that can be sold, and reduce the number of guns in the streets fail, due to the strength of the weapons industry and its lobby in Washington, DC.

Join Steve Clemons as he speaks with Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who just published a book on the ideological, racial, sociological and financial reasons behind Americans' obsessions with guns.

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Faced with a choice between Democratic candidate Joe Biden and Republican incumbent Donald Trump, Harvard University Professor Cornel West is not optimistic about real change coming to the United States.

For decades, West has been a forceful voice arguing that neither party cares for the poor and voiceless except when it is time to vote every four years.

Meanwhile, the demands of maintaining the American empire grow, and military budgets continue to rise at the expense of education and healthcare, hurting not only working Americans, but people around the world.

Dive into Cornel West's expansive world view with host Steve Clemons.

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Hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci - aka "The Mooch" - campaigned vigorously for candidate Donald Trump during the last US election, and was hired as White House communications director in 2017.

A few days later, he was fired.

He remained loyal to his ex-boss after his departure, but says that Trump's tweet last year demeaning "The Squad" - a group of four Democratic Congresswomen of colour, including Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - "was a bridge too far for me".

In this no-holds-barred interview with Steve Clemons, Scaramucci says he's now part of the "Republican Resistance" pushing back against what he calls the "Vichy Republicans" backing Trump's re-election.

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Millions of American children returned to school in the past few weeks, and millions more are scheduled to begin in September. Many school districts have given families a choice between face-to-face and virtual education. In many places, new coronavirus cases forced schools to shut down just days after opening.

President Donald Trump has threatened to punish schools that will not open for face-to-face learning, but many teachers have said it is not safe to return yet.

Host Steve Clemons speaks to Randi Weingarten, the president of one of the biggest teachers' unions, the American Federation of Teachers, to get her perspective on the debate.

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For 30 years, well-known pollster and wordsmith Frank Luntz has been helping Republican candidates and campaigns win elections. In this heartfelt interview with Steve Clemons, he talks about how his recent health scare changed his career focus from divisiveness to reconciliation.

After spending decades urging politicians to move away from the term "global warming" and use "climate change" instead, he now says we should all unite to tend to the environment.

Luntz says Trump is alienating Americans with his talk of "law and order" and "dominating the streets" instead of talking about racial reconciliation.

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