Confessions From Trump's White House
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The aide to Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff opens up to Americast about her mistakes and why she believes that the former president should never be allowed near the Oval Office again.
Cassidy Hutchinson explains why she wrote her candid memoir, which Trump’s team tells us “either belongs in the discount bin of the fiction section of a bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper.”
There’s finally a new Speaker of the House of Representatives. But who is Mike Johnson?
And Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Justin why he thinks Trump’s re-election hopes have terminated.
Please note there is a brief suicide reference between 8:35 and 9:15.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Cassidy Hutchinson, White House aide under President Trump
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | OK, everyone, I've got a surprise guest for us right at the start. |
| 0:07.8 | I know you don't know who it is. |
| 0:10.0 | He was popping through and I said, look, mate, record us a message. |
| 0:14.6 | Here it is. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to America's read my book. |
| 0:19.9 | Trust me. |
| 0:22.6 | He'll be back. |
| 0:23.6 | He'll be back. |
| 0:24.4 | I mean, the thing is about that voice, isn't it? |
| 0:26.8 | I was thinking when I was sitting in front of him, |
| 0:29.0 | it is almost inconceivable that you couldn't know who that was. |
| 0:32.3 | But just in case anybody doesn't know who that is, Anthony. |
| 0:34.9 | That's Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California. |
| 0:38.2 | And I think he was in a few movies as well. |
| 0:39.9 | I don't recall. |
| 0:40.6 | I went to his inauguration in California. |
| 0:42.6 | I mean, he was a serious political force in America. |
| 0:45.9 | I think it's easy to forget that now. |
| 0:47.4 | I think that it was a bit of a joke. |
| 0:48.8 | But if he hadn't been born in Austria, |
| 0:50.9 | you know, we could be thinking of him as a kind of Ronald Reagan figure. |
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