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Putin Says Vote For Joe!

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BBC

News, Government, Politics

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Love is in the air…or is it? Vladimir Putin expressed his preference for the next American president on Valentine’s Day - but critics suspect there might be more to his endorsement than meets the eye. His comments come in the wake of Donald Trump’s disparaging declaration against NATO and that Russia should “do whatever the hell they want” to countries that don't pay up.

And after our emergency episode on Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, we respond to your questions about how, if at all, President Biden could be removed from office.

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This episode was made by George Dabby with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo, and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Let's start with Fake News and Valentine's,

0:06.7

because both are relevant at the moment.

0:09.0

Valentine's Day for obvious reasons

0:10.6

and Fake News as well,

0:11.6

because there's an awful lot of it about so

0:13.7

Nicky Haley Donald Trump's competitor for the nomination for the Republican Party

0:19.5

for the presidency as we all know distant competitor as we all know, distant competitor, as we all, I think, legitimately believe,

0:25.0

but nonetheless competitor,

0:27.0

and she is carrying on and carrying on and using Valentine's Day

0:30.0

to publish what was frankly, pretty obviously a a fake but nonetheless it was a fake

0:34.9

Valentine from her opponent and this is what it said roses are red violets are blue I love

0:40.8

dictators and they love me too happy Happy Valentine's Day from Donald Trump

0:44.6

to dictators around the world. It's not the most subtle political joke in the world is it but of course what

0:53.7

Nicki Haley is doing there is pointing out all the times that Donald Trump has

0:59.0

expressed his admiration for dictators like Vladimir Putin President Xi China, Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

1:05.4

And then we fell in love, okay? No, really? He wrote me beautiful letters. You know, what can I say? he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron hand.

1:16.3

We just left Moscow. He could not have been nicer. He was so nice and so everything.

1:21.6

And it's particularly relevant of course because he has been talking about how he would

1:26.5

encourage Russia to do whatever it wanted with any NATO members who in his view hadn't paid their Jews now I mean that's a

1:34.8

slightly more complicated monetary concept that we can get to later but this is

1:38.0

what he's been saying. They asked me that question one of the presidents of a big

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