Americanswers! RFK Jr, pardoning Trump, and why is Biden talking about cannibals?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Following the start of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, we answer your questions on how Joe Biden could handle his main challenger’s legal woes.
And, Democrats are worried about the threat posed by Robert F Kennedy's Jr's run for office. But could Kennedy's campaign also be a threat to Donald Trump? We assess his chances and take look at another less conventional third-party candidate.
HOST: • Sarah Smith, North America editor
GUEST: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi everybody, it's yet another AmeriCast episode, |
| 0:08.1 | as you may have noticed, we've started a little mini-series |
| 0:11.1 | where we're updating you with all the latest happenings with the |
| 0:14.1 | Trump trial that's going on in New York what's been happening in the courtroom |
| 0:17.4 | and what it could mean on the presidential trail. So that's that's one more |
| 0:21.1 | America strand for you to enjoy. I hope you catch up with that. |
| 0:25.2 | We're going to need some new titles though for it. We need some Trump specific |
| 0:30.4 | clips that we can put together into a little montage and I would love you to |
| 0:34.5 | send in your ideas for that because that will that will pressure the producers |
| 0:37.8 | into getting it done. For this episode we're going to be answering all of your |
| 0:42.4 | questions about what's going on in American politics in American life. |
| 0:46.2 | It's our AmeriCancer's episode and to help answer those questions I've got Miles Taylor with me who was the chief of staff at the |
| 0:53.1 | Department of Homeland Security when Donald J Trump was the president. We're |
| 0:56.9 | going to kick off with a question from Simon, which is about all of Donald Trump's |
| 1:01.3 | legal problems. Given the possibility that Trump's legal cases |
| 1:04.7 | won't be resolved before the election, |
| 1:07.2 | would there be any advantage to President Biden |
| 1:09.5 | pardoning Trump on all or some of the cases? I've seen some people proposing the idea as a |
| 1:14.9 | means to heal a divided America. Could it strengthen Biden's hand, be well |
| 1:19.7 | received, and win over some Republican or undecided voters. |
| 1:24.0 | It's a fascinating idea that's come up before because you're right Simon |
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