Is Trump a Russian asset? Fiona Hill on the President she worked for
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Fiona Hill served in Donald Trump's first administration and is one of the most authoritative voices on geopolitics. She advised on his Russia strategy and matters of national intelligence - before becoming a witness in his impeachment in 2019.
She has worked up close and personal with the President. And, as the war in Iran rages, and Putin continues to try and chisel Trump away from Europe's position on Ukraine, she came into the News Agents studio to try and make sense of the new age of international turmoil ushered in by Trump's second term.
What does she understand about the Putin-Trump relationship? Is the President compromised? Is Trump a fundamentally different man now compared to his first term? And is he backsliding America into territory similar to Russia?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.8 | The Newsagents USA is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:16.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | Some people say, is Donald Trump a Russian asset? He actually |
| 0:24.2 | had a very different risk calculation. They got emboldened. Trump himself is very cruel into |
| 0:29.3 | conspiracy theories. You the one who would say to him, I mean, this is about shit. Trump would sometimes |
| 0:33.9 | pick up on things you'd realize this is Russian propaganda. He's become a kind of King George. |
| 0:38.2 | King George was mad, wasn't he? |
| 0:40.4 | Today, you'll be hearing the unmistakable voice of Fiona Hill. |
| 0:45.0 | The Durham girl who worked for Donald Trump has been right at the heart of his first administration |
| 0:50.8 | and has got plenty to tell us about the state of the world. And she's also been a |
| 0:55.8 | key person in advising this government on what it needs to do now that we have an unreliable partner |
| 1:03.1 | in America. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal. |
| 1:13.7 | It's John. |
| 1:14.8 | It's Maitless. |
| 1:15.7 | And Fiona Hill is this remarkable figure that when I was living in Washington, you |
| 1:19.9 | suddenly heard this kind of key figure who's part of the national security establishment |
| 1:23.6 | in America. |
| 1:24.3 | And you think, that ain't no American accent she's speaking with. |
| 1:27.7 | She is from the northeast. And she's got a fascinating backstory. She became a key person |
| 1:32.9 | advising Donald Trump in the White House, was with him on a number of overseas trips and |
| 1:39.4 | is trying to advise him in terms of relations with Russia, which is her expertise, and worked very closely |
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