The News Agents - USA

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 people off for being spineless enough to do just that...

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 him by 30 odd points...

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.

And Nikki Haley is trying a novel tactic of pissing off the Iowan voters by telling them that New Hampshire knows better...

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 valiant and occasionally pathetic attempt at answers as we see out the pre-election presidential year of America 2023...

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 - who offered similar responses - has now resigned.

On today’s episode we talk to Columbia Professor of History Simon Sharma about campus culture war and how it’s affecting wider party politics...

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 worked on the two Obama campaigns. How dangerous is the threat of a Trump presidency in 2024, and, what does it actually look like?

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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 to his former boss Donald Trump after he stopped working for him? We ask him.

All that - cohosted between London and the Carribean with our beach correspondent Jon Sopel...

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 Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Report, Amy Walter.

And - is Thanksgiving a waste of time? Jon and Emily discuss (well, disagree)...

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 back voters? Does it include a softer stance?

Also today we hear from a Republican and a Democrat formerly in Congress...

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 this purple state closer to staying blue or turning MAGA red? The latter could tip the election in Trump's favour.

And we cross state lines to the hometown of the woman who could capitalise should a jail cell call for the Donald. Nikki Haley...