Beto on the Border: Ex Presidential Candidate on the US Immigration Crisis
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In a week dominated by legal cases, the team takes you into the virtual Americast courtroom to dissect the various trials involving Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani.
Sarah’s back from her trip to the US/Mexico border and tells us how it relates to a funding deadlock in Congress for support to Ukraine.
One person who lives on that border is former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. He dials in to chat about how the deadlock can be broken and enters his own predictions into the Americast time capsule…
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Beto O’Rourke, Former Democrat presidential candidate
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Alix Pickles, Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. 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. |
| 0:04.6 | Loyal AmeriCasters will recognize that sound. |
| 0:09.5 | Anthony is banging his gavel once again, we have brought it back, but this week he's not |
| 0:14.8 | playing the part of the Speaker of the House of Representatives though we have recast him |
| 0:19.0 | as a judge and that's because there are some very important court cases that we're going to be |
| 0:23.6 | talking about later in this episode, ones that could have a real impact on politics. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah, the judges are busy and they've been deciding to two things really, one the future of Trump land and the extent to which |
| 0:34.4 | Trump land is in trouble and on that the news for Trump land all those supporters of |
| 0:38.5 | Donald Trump is not particularly good but the wider question which is still |
| 0:42.0 | undecided but it very much raised by all the cases |
| 0:44.6 | we're going to be talking about, is to what extent when Donald Trump was president did he have |
| 0:48.7 | the right to do the things that he did because he was president and he can't be prosecuted for them. |
| 0:54.3 | That is a very big deal. |
| 0:56.2 | It'll go all the way through the Supreme Court. |
| 0:57.9 | We assume, although they haven't yet said that they're going to take the case and |
| 1:02.0 | obviously it has a big big big impact on the presidential |
| 1:06.6 | election and on his ability to be out of prison when he fights it if he does. |
| 1:10.5 | And sticking with presidential politics we're going to be talking to a former |
| 1:14.0 | presidential candidate, the Democrat Beto or Rourke. |
| 1:17.1 | He is of course a former representative for Texas who ran for the Democratic nomination, |
| 1:22.0 | also ran for a governor of Texas. We're going to |
| 1:24.6 | be talking to him about some of the personalities in this year's race as well as the |
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