The News Agents - USA

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 embarassing stories about Trump to save him face when he was running for president in 2016. Was this against the law? Does it hurt Trump's defenc

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 to his son's graduation. Meanwhile, the judge has just carried on. They're selecting a jury which will witness the first ever criminal trial of a former US president. We talk to

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?But we start with what happened dramatically, overnight in America where the state of Arizona has just brought BACK an abortion ban dating from 1864. How popular wi

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 constitution combo for a neat 60 dollars. Trump is trying to win few more Christians whilst simultaneously trying not to endorse an abortion ban that could see the

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 off his fraudulent asset evaluations. At least it's not the original $464 million - which was knocked down at the eleventh hour on Monday. Truth Social, his social media site, loo

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. Meanwhile, Trump is talking about a blood bath in Ohio and no one can decide whether he means the car industry or the state of democracy. Nigel Farage has got him to commit t

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 capture the youth vote through social media?This, all as Trump and Biden become the official nominees for their respective parties... though we all knew that alread

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 in the Republcian Party primaries, meaning that barring an extraordinary circumstance, Trump is the GOP candidate? And why has she come out and refus

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 what motivates them to vote for a man indicted 91 times?We're the only foreign press able to get into the rally. The Trump team wouldn't let anyone el

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 McConnell announces he's stepping down as Senate Republican Leader. Trump is ever so close to total ownership of the Republican party.We digest in