US of Ed

"I think his presidency is over, the question is how much longer he hangs on."

Looking at Trump trials and travels in Asia and the 2017 election results, particularly in Virginia. A boon for Democrats but is the "backlash against Trump" being over-hyped? And can Democrats position themselves as more than just the anti-Trump party by the 2018 midterm elections? Meanwhile, Michael Flynn and son are in the sights of the Mueller investigation and some thoughts a year on from Trump's surprise election victory.

"They're going after the little fish, and setting the plate, so they can go after the big fish by saying - here is the evidence against you, what do you have to say?"

Former Trump advisors Paul Manafort, Richard Gates and George Papadopoulos have been indicted on charges ranging from money laundering to the dire-sounding "conspiracy against the United States". What is Mueller's strategy and who is likely to be next? Also, the New York terror attack and how Trump's response might have made it more difficult to prosecute.

"You haven't heard anyone in the Republican Party criticising [Bob Corker and Jeff Flake]... They're the people who are saying what other people think."

Trump seems to be struggling to find friends, engaging in a running battle of he-said-she-said with Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson and critics within his party speaking out virtually unopposed. Meanwhile, in spite of the mountain of evidence that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, Russia is reportedly unhappy with the USA as relations reach a low ebb. Also, the Clinton camp's involvement with the Steele Dossier and will Robert Mueller have Donald Trump served up like a turkey before Thanksgiving dinner?

"He has lost the plot entirely, he's only there trying to save his own skin, he is not leading the nation."

Donald Trump has been criticised for a slow and indifferent response to the death of four US soldiers in Niger as well as attempting to paint former Presidents Obama and Bush as doing less regarding fallen soldiers, launching yet another war of words with a Gold Star family and the former administrations. George W. Bush has even broken with the tradition of former presidents to criticise Trump in all but name, and Trump seems to be becoming more isolated and unhinged. Plus, Puerto Rico, the latest on Mueller and the Russian probe and after a massive failure on healthcare, what next for the Republicans' tax agenda?

"To save his own skin, to get this Russian thing behind him, he will attack North Korea... No one will have anyone to turn to but him in a situation like that, and he's willing to do that to save himself."​

More of nature's wrath in California and New Orleans, what has the government response looked like? Meanwhile, outgoing Republican Senator for Tennessee Bob Corker has expressed concerns Trump is leading us into World War III and Trump has reportedly asked about the possibility of America's nuclear arsenal tenfold, back to its Cold War peak. Also, the latest on Puerto Rico, ties with Israel and the Russia investigation.

"He's not the President of the United States, he's the President of about 30% of the United States, and that's all he wants to be..."​

This week, Ed has a few harsh words for President Trump in the wake of the horrific Las Vegas massacre and multiple failures in Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, what's the Republicans' next move on healthcare following their inability to pass a vote to repeal and replace Obamacare? The latest on the Mueller investigation and what the expulsion of Cuban diplomats from the US means for relations between the two nations.

"What the guys are saying is, we really love the United States and this is one way of showing it. There are problems of race and we're trying to bring them to your attention with what we have, and that's our name and our ability."

Trump's attacks on former 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick and other protesting NFL players, a far-cry from the kind of hedged language used against Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, seem to have backfired with more sport stars taking up the challenge. Off the field, Republicans' "last-ditch" efforts on repealing Obamacare have also failed and tax reform could leave an even bigger hole in the deficit. And was Senator Luther Strange's loss in Alabama a victory in disguise for Trump?

"Impeaching him might be easy, removing him from office might be very, very hard.."

President Donald Trump has threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea if Kim Jong-un doesn't back down from his latest threats, making the leaders of the two nations harder and harder to tell apart. So will we see any peaceful resolution to the situation? Plus Puerto Rico as the 51st State, Mueller smells blood in the water around Paul Manafort and Republicans' 'last-ditch' effort on an Obamacare repeal.

"[Trump] has really lost the Republicans, and he has nothing to gain from trying to get them back... but with the Democrats, if he can bring them onside on a few key issues... he might save his presidency for this four years, because they'll stop pursuing him."

As recovery begins following Hurricane Irma, Ed talks about the fallout both physical and political. But, is Trump showing some of those fabled deal-making skills in reaching across the aisle to Democrats on the DACA Dreamers? And what does that mean for his relationship with his own party? Plus, back-downs on both the travel ban and transgender military ban, while China could be poised to take the North Korea situation out of American hands.

"They'd be a boon, actually, to Mexico, to have these well-educated people come back... And Canada will receive these people with open arms. This is another one of these deals where Donald Trump thinks he's winning his base but he's losing everyone else."​

While America was still getting its head around the ravages of flooding in Houston, another massive storm got ready to batter Florida. How is the government responding? And Donald Trump continues to kick up a storm on both sides of the aisle, ordering the dismantling of Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, and yet siding with Democrats on raising the debt ceiling, a policy Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan had called "ridiculous" barely an hour before the announcement.