Could an alleged sex trafficker become America’s next Attorney General?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Donald Trump’s latest cabinet picks are actually laugh out loud hilarious. Unless, of course, you are American. In which case they are a signal that he doesn’t give two hoots about the rule of law or US security. Today we talk through the ethics of appointing Matt Gaetz and the persuasions of Tulsi Gabbard.
And, we speak exclusively to Steve Hilton, former Downing Street advisor to David Cameron who is now behind Donald Trump and seriously considering a run for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s old job - Governor of California.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I mean, I would describe it as godtier level trolling to just trigger a full-on China syndrome to own the lives in perpetuity. |
| 0:25.1 | That is the Democrat Senator John Fetteman talking about Donald Trump's nomination of Matt |
| 0:31.4 | Gates as the next Attorney General. The same Matt Gates that is facing an ethics investigation |
| 0:37.3 | into sex trafficking and |
| 0:39.2 | illegal drug use as the next Attorney General of the United States. So what does all this tell us |
| 0:45.9 | about Trump's incoming approach to the Department of Justice and indeed to Justice itself? |
| 0:52.5 | We're going to be going through some of his picks today. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 0:57.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:01.0 | It's John. |
| 1:02.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:03.0 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:04.0 | And later in the program, we're going to be talking to Steve Hilton. |
| 1:06.0 | UK listeners will know him as David Cameron's former director of strategy in number 10, |
| 1:12.7 | and maybe California listeners will think of him as the man who is now considering a run |
| 1:18.6 | for California governor. We're going to be talking to him about the result, about his adherence |
| 1:24.1 | to the new Trump shape of things now, and that's all a little bit later. |
| 1:28.6 | But we start with Matt Gates and a straight 10 on the jaw drop index already so soon after |
| 1:36.1 | the election. We need to leave ourselves from space. No, it's a straight 10. It's a straight 10. |
| 1:41.2 | You can't give Matt Gates's suggestion and nomination as Attorney General |
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