The News Agents - USA

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 in the Trump legal coffin.

And, out of all this a name is emerging - Liz Cheney who, we understand, is weighing up whether to take Trump on as the Republican's choice for president...

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 a dangerous, herculean task that has the potential for domestic and foreign backlash. It will require every ounce of his weighty diplomatic might...

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 a power vacuum in Washington and an unfolding catastrophe in the Middle East...

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 compromise with the Democrats.

What is going on in that party?

What does it tell us about the chance of the parties ever working together?

And later, Trump is on trial in New York...

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.

Why? Because he dared to find compromise with the Democrats.

What is going on in that party?

What does it tell us about the chance of the parties ever working together?

And later, Trump is on trial in New York...

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 it will be any of them will win.

Meanwhile Donald Trump is with car workers in Detroit. He’s already trying to fight the general election against Biden...

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 digesting all this - see you then!

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.

And we ask why Donald Trump has changed his position on abortion...

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. David Frum - former speechwriter for George W. Bush - joins us and we ask if any of this is moving the state of political play...

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 in an insurrection or rebellion...