Is Biden really that 'rock-solid' with the UK?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden meets Rishi Sunak in London before flying out to Vilnius to a NATO summit in which he's set to snub the UK government's attempts to have Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary, become the next Secretary General of NATO. The famous 'special relationship' doesn't feel so special any more. Former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker joins Emily and Jon in News Agents USA HQ.
This, all while US news outlets report that the President is a lot less mild-mannered in private than he appears in public. We ask Washington Post National Politics Reporter Olivier Knox, who's spent decades with US Presidents and in the White House, if that's really the case.
And then, we turn to Trump and DeSantis, the two main candidates in the race to win the Republican candidacy for the 2024 election. Trump battles against court dates; DeSantis battles his lack of personality.
And, an ode to Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the Republican congresswoman who, despite believing that Jewish people and their space lasers are to blame for Californian wildfires, is deemed too moderate for the right-wing Freedom Caucus in Congress. Another normal week on The Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, Joe, welcome. It's great to have you here. Back in Downing Street, I think you've been here a few times before I know, your first time as president so we're very privileged and fortunate to have you here thanks for coming |
| 0:24.2 | great for us to carry on our conversations which we were having just a month or so ago it |
| 0:29.3 | feels like in the White House we've met in San Diego Belfast Hiroshima Washington |
| 0:34.6 | here and couldn't be meeting with a closer friend and a greater ally. |
| 0:40.3 | And got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:43.8 | I think we're doing well. |
| 0:46.7 | And we're moving long and away. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, that was Rishi Sunak meeting with Joe Biden. |
| 0:52.7 | As you heard with those sort of audio subtitles in |
| 0:55.8 | Downing Street, it was a little bit like when you go and visit somebody in an old folks' home, |
| 0:59.6 | and you have to sort of gently remind them who you are and where they are and when you last |
| 1:06.2 | there and it's a bit nippy out, but it's a lovely day. Oh, it's really nice to see the flowers on the table. |
| 1:14.0 | And you heard from Rishi Sunak, who did most of the talking, |
| 1:17.0 | most of the audible talking there. |
| 1:18.9 | But the key phrase he was waiting from, |
| 1:21.9 | from Joe Biden in town for just one day, |
| 1:24.5 | was rock, solid relationship. |
| 1:31.1 | Don't read too much into that, but it sort of means we're okay. But be careful into reading that the special relationship is on fine form. It's been |
| 1:39.1 | bumpy and it's been bumpy over the appointment of who should be the next Secretary General of NATO. |
| 1:47.7 | Because the Americans have kiboshed the idea that the British Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, |
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