Live Q&A: Is Trump working for Putin? And what's Putin got on Trump?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In our first ever Live Q&A edition Jon and Lewis answer your most pressing questions.
Is Trump working for Putin? Will a military coup overthrow the Trump administration? If Zelensky ends up going back to America, should he wear a suit? And why are we all so obsessed with Lewis's jumper?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:10.4 | This is a Global Player original podcast. Today the Newsagent Studio has been turned into something of a laboratory. |
| 0:18.6 | Yep, we have done our first live stream on Global Player and on |
| 0:23.4 | YouTube with a question and answer session about frankly the astonishing, disturbing, |
| 0:28.7 | mad, bonkers events of the past week. That is what you're going to hear now. We have |
| 0:35.3 | been so struck by how many of you have been listening |
| 0:37.8 | to the shows we've done on this, have been inundating us with questions about the Ukraine-Trump |
| 0:44.3 | crisis. And so we thought that we would answer those questions live. And that is what is coming |
| 0:50.3 | up. Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 0:56.5 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:03.0 | It's John. It's Lewis. And welcome to our very first live edition of the Newsagent, |
| 1:08.0 | streaming on global player and on YouTube. Never done this before. And you've been sending all of your questions over the last 24 hours or so on the Ukraine crisis, |
| 1:13.6 | the Trump crisis, Russia crisis. We're going to try and get through all of those today. And also, |
| 1:18.1 | if you are watching this and you have a question, you haven't already sent one, don't despair, |
| 1:21.2 | because you can just add it to the comments and we will endeavor to get to them. And of course, |
| 1:24.7 | my question to start off with, the question that is on the |
| 1:27.8 | nation's lips, has John Sopel still got it? The live broadcasting gene, has he lost it? Well, we're |
| 1:33.9 | going to find out. I mean, you may think that there's a woodpecker in the studio. It's just my knees |
| 1:37.6 | knocking together at the thought of going live on the new... You've only done about two billion hours of it over the course of your career. Look, I mean, what a week it has been. |
| 1:45.8 | And you just think that this time last Friday, |
| 1:49.5 | Volodymy Zelensky was waking up in his Washington hotel room and thinking, |
| 1:52.9 | I wonder how the meeting will go today with President Trump and J.D. Vance. |
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