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Where Politics Meets History

DAILY TRAIL: Columbo, Trump and Ronnie Corbett

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, History, Politics

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Shelagh and Iain examine the words coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth as he held nearly an hour long press conference here in London. Should we trust him when he says he’s not interested in the NHS? And as Columbo would say, just one more thing....Is the President correct when he says that he predicted Brexit the day before Brexit happened?

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0:00.0

LBC Election 2019

0:07.0

This is The Daily Trail. I'm Sheila Fogarty.

0:10.0

And I'm Ian Dale.

0:12.0

Coming up, we're going to focus on the visit to the UK by President Donald Trump.

0:17.0

We'll look at his words on the election, on Boris Johnson, on Jeremy Corn, talk about the NHS inevitably, and the claims being made around it on both sides.

0:26.2

And let's mention a few polls as well.

0:28.8

There's still different ones coming in in dribs and drabs and drabs.

0:30.7

There are a couple of interesting ones, which go against a recent trend.

0:34.1

But we'll come on to that in a moment.

0:35.5

So Donald Trump is here.

0:36.7

He is.

0:38.0

Rejoice. Rejoice. recent trend, but we'll come on to that in a moment. So Donald Trump is here. Always my favorite time of year, Panto season.

0:40.1

Oh, no, it isn't.

0:41.2

Oh, yes, it is.

0:42.4

He's behind you.

0:44.4

Yeah, I mean, he's, I might, it could just be the mood I'm in, I don't know, but

0:48.8

it feels, because it's such an obviously working visit around NATO, around the anniversary, around the leaders' meetings, it feels less controversial, less sort of ill-tempered, you know, around the edges compared to the state visit.

1:05.0

A little bit. I'm not sure they're going to be the massive protests that there were for that. I think there are some protests today, but very muted. I spoke to one of the Stop the War Coalition protesters talking about the election. And I asked

1:15.7

her actually, interestingly, Lindsay German. You mean stop the war unless Russia started it,

1:20.1

politicians? I asked her if she was bothered in any way by Jeremy Corbyn saying that he's going

1:25.3

to go to the Buckingham Palace reception and he's going to speak to Donald Trump about the NHS. Because you get the feeling that the Stop the War Coalition, if they get one of their main supporters, Jeremy Corbyn, face to face with the US President, that the NHS isn't the thing they'd want him to talk about when you think about it.

1:42.3

No. I'm afraid I have very little time for these top of the war people because there is not a single

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