Checks and Balance: Disruptor-in-chief
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How far has President Donald Trump delivered on his promise to remake American power in the world? With so much attention focused on the impeachment drama originating in Ukraine, John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, identifies the places more likely to determine the fate of Trump’s presidency. And has America’s global standing been damaged as Trump’s critics allege? Co-hosts Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman debate President Trump’s foreign policy with David Rennie, Beijing bureau chief, and Shashank Joshi, defence editor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:20.0 | Hello, I'm John Prido, and this is a new podcast from The Economist about the 2020 elections |
| 0:28.6 | and the road to power in America. Welcome to Checks and Balance. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm the Economist's U.S. |
| 0:40.0 | editor. |
| 0:42.0 | And every week from now until election day in November |
| 0:45.2 | we'll take one theme that shaping American politics and explore it in detail. So, Today we're going to be talking about how President Trump has remade the world. |
| 1:16.0 | We'll speak to economist correspondence across the states and beyond, |
| 1:20.0 | and each week two of my American colleagues will be riding shotgun. |
| 1:23.0 | Charlotte Howard and John Fasman. |
| 1:25.0 | Morning. |
| 1:26.0 | Hi. |
| 1:27.0 | So Charlotte, just tell the listeners a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:29.0 | You're the New York Bureau Chief. |
| 1:30.0 | What's your plan for this election season? |
| 1:33.0 | I'm going to be watching the interaction between politics and business and politics in America's |
| 1:38.3 | economy, because this is a really interesting election in that there's a very dramatic difference |
| 1:42.3 | between Trump's vision of America's economic future. interesting election in that there's a very dramatic difference between |
| 1:43.0 | Trump's vision of America's economic future and the one proposed by |
| 1:46.5 | Democrats. So I'm going to be looking at the real world implications of Trump's |
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