The News Agents - USA

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 already...

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 refused to back Trump?

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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 else in. Listen to find out what it's like at the heart of MAGA America...

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 this bonus episode of The News Agents - USA...

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 will it last.

Also on the episode - why is Biden talking about a Gaza peace deal in an ice cream parlour and who is the Republican senator saying he backs the Alabama court decision to stop IVF despite wanting more children in his state...

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 election campaign?

Later, ahead of South Carolina’s primary we ask what Nikki Haley’s strategy is...

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 both those questions is 'yes'?

On today's episode we look at the report by special counsel Robert K. Hur who calls the president a 'well-meaning elderly man' and the kind words of encouragment Trump has for Vladimir Putin...

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...

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 story of E. Jean Carroll - who’s owed 83 million dollars by the Donald.

And ask if Taylor Swift can swing a US election.

PSA: If you want to hear about Biden's crisis in the Middle East - head to the Monday episode of our regular daily The News Agents feed...

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 sticking around to call Trump senile and sees if he falls down any (metaphorical) stairs.

Election denier Trump meanwhile is getting really stroppy with her and, like a sad class bully, has started threatening her...