Americanswers... on 5 Live! Did Trump ambush Zelensky?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Presidents Trump and Zelensky clashed on Friday night in a furious exchange at the White House, during which Trump accused the Ukrainian president of “gambling with World War III.”
The future of the world now seems more uncertain, and people naturally have a lot of questions.The team try to provide them as they join Matt Chorley for a special edition of their weekly Q&A.
Was the conflict manufactured by a Trump-friendly reporter? How has Congress reacted? Has the incident hurt Trump in the polls? All will be answered in today's edition of Americanswers
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Maricasters. It's our Monday edition. And of course, that means it's American answers when you get to ask us anything you want to know about what's been happening in the US. And of course, this week, it is absolutely no surprise that our inbox has been flooded with questions about those extraordinary scenes between Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday. So we're going to focus entirely on that. |
| 0:23.6 | And in fact, there is so much to unpack and discuss about what went on there that we're all going to come back after the live broadcast with Matt Charlie to do a little bit of extra chat, answer a few more questions. |
| 0:34.5 | So do hold on for that. |
| 0:35.4 | But for now, welcome to America |
| 0:37.5 | Answers. |
| 0:40.6 | AmeriCast. AmeriCast from BBC News. God spared my life for a reason. Only when it is dark enough, |
| 0:49.7 | can you see the stars. The star is born, Elon. I'm not just Maga. I'm dark Gothic Maga. |
| 0:56.0 | This is what happens when the machine comes after you. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm terrified for this country and I'm so hurt that America let this happen. |
| 1:04.0 | I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. |
| 1:20.9 | Right, we've got the whole team here. |
| 1:22.2 | We've got to try and get through as many questions as possible. |
| 1:26.1 | You can text 85058 or WhatsApp 0808-999693.. Let's start with in sort of chronological order then. |
| 1:29.9 | The explosive exchanges in the Oval Office on Friday night between Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, |
| 1:34.2 | and Vladimir Zelensky. |
| 1:37.0 | Sarah, why don't you sum up for us if you can first? Just in case anyone has been living under a rock for the last three days, |
| 1:42.7 | what happened and the significance of it? |
| 1:45.3 | Okay, I'll keep it brief. |
| 1:47.2 | So after Emmanuel Macron, the French president and Kier Sturmer, |
| 1:50.4 | had visited the Oval Office earlier in the week. |
| 1:52.7 | On Friday, it was Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's turn. |
| 1:56.8 | And this was absolutely crucial, of course, |
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