How the U.S. Secret Service failed Donald Trump
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We get the inside track on presidential security at the highest levels from an expert who has worked with Donald Trump. Justin is joined by Miles Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department for Homeland Security when Trump was President. Also, as the Republican Convention gets underway in Milwaukee, Justin and Miles discuss Trump’s call for America to “UNITE”. Can the former President reunite not just the country, but the Republican party? What does this mean for Joe Biden and the Democrats?
And - Anthony joins us for some breaking news on one of Donald Trump’s legal cases - and why it’s good news for the former President.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department for Homeland Security
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray, Purvee Pattni and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we start with breaking news of our own and a bit of housekeeping as well. |
| 0:09.0 | So for this week we are going to be doing daily podcasts, it won't be our usual Q&A session today. We're |
| 0:15.5 | going to dedicate this podcast to talk more about the shooting and we're going to do |
| 0:19.8 | it with Miles Taylor, our regular guest. |
| 0:23.1 | We have been inundated with questions though, |
| 0:25.7 | and we will do our best to answer them, of course, |
| 0:28.9 | during the course of the week. |
| 0:30.5 | Indeed, I hope some of them we get to our answer today in the sense that we |
| 0:34.0 | talk about the things that are interesting you there is plenty of time to do all of |
| 0:38.0 | this because of these daily episodes I should add as well we're also at the |
| 0:41.9 | Republican convention in Milwaukee of |
| 0:43.8 | course we're going to follow all the twists and turns of that race the speeches |
| 0:48.2 | if there are more than one that come from Donald Trump the announcement of the |
| 0:52.0 | vice presidential candidate etc etc. come from Donald Trump, the announcement of the Vice Presidential |
| 0:53.0 | candidate, etc. It never stops. Welcome to Americast. |
| 0:58.0 | Americast. |
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| 1:03.0 | Let me start off with two herbs. |
| 1:05.0 | Made in America. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm not running for a sainthood here. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm running for president. |
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