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The News Agents - USA

America’s most conservative senator: The Exclusive

The News Agents - USA

Global

News, Politics, Government

4.3719 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We have an exclusive interview on today’s episode with the senior senator from Utah - Mike Lee - who ranks as America’s No1 most conservative senator - in the 538/NY Times poll.

We talk to him about the Republican Party, the new speaker, and why he tried to help Donald Trump secure an election he had lost.

Later - why did Mike Pence drop out of the Presidential race?

And ... who is Dean Phillips??

Editor: Gabriel Radus

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Producer: Rory Symon

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:09.7

This is a global player original podcast.

0:13.9

If it sounds noisy in the background, it is.

0:17.1

We're at a conference of an organisation, which until an hour ago, I'd never actually heard of.

0:23.7

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, whatever that is.

0:27.5

I think it's one of those acronyms that's meant to sort of disguise what it might be about,

0:33.0

because it could, let's face it, be about anything.

0:36.2

But in a nutshell, it's a group of right-leaning,

0:39.9

opinion leaders, former politicians, former prime ministers, former presidents, leaders of political

0:45.7

parties who all have come together in this little corner of Greenwich, well, okay, the O2

0:51.4

centre, more or less, to talk about their, let's call it, perceived way that the world should be ruled.

0:59.5

And here, among these group of people, is Senator Mike Lee from Utah, who we talked to about the state of the Republican Party, support for Ukraine,

1:10.3

Donald Trump's spurious claims about having won the 2020 election, and the support that he gave him then.

1:17.3

It's a fascinating listen. Welcome to Newsagents USA.

1:28.8

It's John.

1:29.4

It's Emily.

1:31.9

And we are back in Newsagents HQ.

1:36.7

In fact, I think wherever we are becomes Newsagents HQ, a bit like Air Force One.

1:37.1

Yeah.

1:40.9

So whatever we're flying in, that is Newsagents HQ.

2:02.2

Yeah, when we pop up in Greenwich, when we pop up in Manchester or Liverpool, I think that just becomes the HQ, don't you think? Interesting idea. Okay. We've got our own situation room, ready for any crisis or emergency that might come along. Look, at the moment, in London, it's hard to move around without tripping over a US politician. Kamala Harris is here. She's here for Rishi Sunak's AI conference.

2:07.0

I thought she was just here to speak to us. No, amazingly. She's come for other reasons as well,

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