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04.30.2024

Should a president be able to "assassinate" his political opponents?

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...

04.24.2024

Trump on trial... and should America arm its teachers?

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...

04.16.2024

How do you pick a jury for Donald Trump?

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...

04.10.2024

Why is David Cameron getting snubbed in America?

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?...

04.03.2024

Could Florida’s new abortion ban actually help the Democrats win?

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...

03.26.2024

Trump to face criminal trial ... before the election

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...

03.20.2024

Is Donald Trump broke?

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. ...

03.13.2024

Is TikTok about to be banned in America?

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...

03.06.2024

Super Tuesday from inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago ballroom, and Haley quits the race

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...

03.03.2024

Live from Richmond, Virginia: Trump on the campaign trail

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...

02.29.2024

BONUS: Has the Supreme Court just saved Trump?

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...

02.27.2024

Why is Fox News fact-checking Trump?

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...

02.21.2024

Does Bernie Sanders think Joe Biden is too old?

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...

02.13.2024

Old men and corrupt tyrants: America's choice for 2024

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...

02.06.2024

A court rules Trump has no presidential immunity

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....

01.30.2024

Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?

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...

01.24.2024

What happened in New Hampshire and what does it mean?

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...

01.22.2024

BONUS EPISODE: Ron gone, endorses Don - has Trump won?

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...

01.16.2024

Donald Trump dominates in Iowa: is the Republican race already over?

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...

01.09.2024

The 2024 US election: the starting gun is fired

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....

12.19.2023

End of Year America Special: Your questions answered

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...

12.12.2023

Anti-Semitism and academic freedom: what’s happening on US college campuses?

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 -...

12.05.2023

What will a second Trump term actually look like for America?

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...

11.28.2023

Sean Spicer: Trump's Press Secretary on Trump, truth and 2024

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...

11.21.2023

Why is Joe Biden haemorrhaging support from young voters?

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...

11.14.2023

Are Republicans changing their stance on abortion?

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...

11.08.2023

Is America about to give Donald Trump a second chance? Dispatch from the Deep South

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...

10.31.2023

America’s most conservative senator: The Exclusive

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...

10.24.2023

Is Liz Cheney coming for Donald Trump?

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...

10.17.2023

Is Biden going to Israel a bad idea?

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...

10.10.2023

A power vacuum in Washington and chaos in the Middle East

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...

10.03.2023

MCCARTHY SACKED: Why is the Republican Party eating itself alive?

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...

10.03.2023

Why is the Republican Party eating itself alive?

Late last night came an extraordinary moment in US Congressional history. A Florida congressman called for the removal of the Speaker of the House of Representatives - the most powerful Republican job in America and third biggest in US politics....

09.28.2023

Can any other Republican beat Donald Trump? The second debate

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...

09.27.2023

The News Agents USA: Debate Night, Take 2

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...

09.19.2023

Will America continue to make Russell Brand rich?

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....

09.12.2023

Vladimir Putin: Trump's Russian running mate?

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....

09.05.2023

Could a 'treason clause' kick Trump off the ballot?

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...

08.29.2023

Why are there still racist killings in America?

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...

08.24.2023

Who won the Republican Party debate?

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...

08.22.2023

The News Agents USA: Debate Night

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;...

08.15.2023

Why is Donald Trump being charged like a mafia boss?

Donald Trump. Charged with racketeering in Georgia after allegedly attempting to meddle with election results - and he's now got 91 counts against his name... and counting. Will this change anything? And what about the whataboutery with Hunter Biden...

08.07.2023

Trump, the law, and The Lord

Ever wondered what Trump's personal pastor has to say about all the law-breaking that the 45th President allegedly has engaged in? Jon speaks to him on today's episode. We mull that, and an impending fourth indictment, on The News Agents...

08.01.2023

Has the Republican Party become 'a cult'?

US prosecutors have charged Donald Trump for attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 Election. It’s the second federal indictment brought against the former president in as many months. We knew this was on the way. So...

07.26.2023

Why is Ron DeSantis sinking?

Why is Ron DeSantis losing ground in the polls to an unknown? Why is the new Barbie film driving American right-wingers mad? And why did a young American soldier dash across the border to seek refuge... in North...

07.19.2023

Is Trump about to be charged for citing the January 6th riots?

As we settled into News Agents USA HQ, the breaking news that Trump may be set to face trial for a third time, and criminal proceedings for a second time, wafted in. We talk to the Washington Post's Olivier...

07.12.2023

Is Biden really that 'rock-solid' with the UK?

Joe Biden meets Rishi Sunak in London before flying out to Vilnius to a NATO summit in which he's set to snub the UK government's attempts to have Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary, become the next Secretary General of NATO. The...

07.05.2023

America's Supreme Court - powerful, politicised, and unpoliced

Joe Biden - that's President Joe Biden - has said the Supreme Court is "not normal". He's referring to the recent judgements the 9 justices have made - overturning Roe v Wade last year, overruling affirmative action policies at...

06.28.2023

'Doing God' - Trump and the Evangelicals

On Tuesday morning, CNN obtained leaked audio of Donald Trump showing classified documents to people who definitely shouldn't be seeing classified documents. He's still denying he didn't have classified documents... but we now have him admitting to it on...

06.21.2023

Hunter Biden pleads guilty; Trump doesn't

Breaking news - that has left Republicans speechless for all the wrong reasons. Biden's son Hunter pleads guilty to three federal charges. But they are all miniscule. None of the ones the MAGA (Make America Great Again) gang really...