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TALKING POLITICS

Mrs May Goes to Washington

TALKING POLITICS

Catherine Carr

News, News & Politics

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

After another tumultuous week, we talk about Britain's place in the world under a Trump presidency. How much leverage does Theresa May have in Washington? What might a Trump administration want in return? And what does 'global Britain' really mean post-Brexit? Plus we're joined by Glen Rangwala to discuss the implications of Trump's arrival in the White House for US policy towards the Middle East. With Helen Thompson, Aaron Rapport and Chris Brooke.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is David Runseman and this is Talking Politics.

0:07.0

I haven't had any real clear politics this morning, I think I was reading political betting this morning, not real clear politics.

0:19.0

At the end of a long week, every week is a long week in politics, but this has been a particularly long one, it began with Mrs. Maystrip to Washington.

0:26.0

I've been preparing my lecture on the Arab is really confident this morning, so I'm afraid it's not any more in this interesting as we'll clear betting or whatever it's happened.

0:34.0

In the last 48 hours, the thing that everyone has been talking about is Donald Trump's ban on people coming into the United States from certain countries.

0:41.0

We're going to come onto that at the end, we're not going to focus on that and I'm afraid we're not going to talk at all this week about the big news overnight, which is Donald Trump's nomination to the Supreme Court of Neil Gorsuch.

0:53.0

I believe that's how we say it, we will be talking about that in future.

0:57.0

This is a week in which we learned a new word, well, he said I did, I'd never heard this word before.

1:02.0

And again, I don't know how to say this, bathmaphobia, maybe bathmaphobia, which is the fear of people to find it differently stairs and slopes, or with some people it's handrails and stairs and slopes.

1:17.0

Apparently it's the reason why he, he who shall not be named and Mrs May had to hold hands because there are a couple of steps there.

1:24.0

It kind of explains that it doesn't really explain how he got to be president of the United States given it involves a certain amount of stair climbing descending.

1:32.0

I saw just now, we're not going to do a lot of this, but he is a limitless supply of interesting tweets.

1:38.0

So this is a tweet from Donald Trump 2014 before he was even a possible candidate for president in which he said,

1:45.0

the way President Obama runs down the stairs of Air Force One hopping and bobbing all the way is so ineligant and unpresidential.

1:53.0

Do not fall.

1:55.0

What?

1:57.0

He's just like John Mane and Karnat.

1:59.0

And Trump Tower, yes, I don't like this, but I think I'm everywhere.

2:02.0

Literally, absolutely.

2:05.0

Literally.

2:08.0

Imagine him riding around the wall.

2:11.0

He was just very out of it, just said Trisky.

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