Q&A: Trump's tantrum, the Midterms and Lewis getting the sh*t kicked out of him
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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It's been another dizzying week of news and, as we head into Easter, Jon and Lewis stocked up on chocolate and headed into the studio for a special Q&A episode - answering your questions and dissecting some of the biggest stories in the headlines.
Could Trump's antagonism pull Keir Starmer and Britain back into Europe? Is Tucker Carlson harbouring presidential ambitions? Would losing Congress have any impact on Trump's remaining time in office? And why Lewis has been getting the sh*t kicked out of him for 'punching down' on the Prime Minister...
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | It was great news to see Lewis, you know, having a, you know, getting the shit kicked out of it. |
| 0:16.2 | Made me laugh. So many people were saying, well, where's your, where's your program about Farage? |
| 0:19.4 | Where's your program about Liz Truss? Where's your program about Boris Johnson? |
| 0:22.2 | I think that Donald Trump will find that his wings are clipped. |
| 0:26.5 | People like Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio, people like that. |
| 0:29.3 | All actually now themselves openly questioning NATO membership, saying, you know, well, what do we get out of this? |
| 0:34.5 | I'm holding those in power to account. |
| 0:38.1 | It is Holy Week. |
| 0:39.7 | And therefore, we need a special way on the news agents of marking this time. |
| 0:45.8 | Happy, happy Easter. |
| 0:47.2 | And as a result, what we decided to do today is have a special live Q&A where we took your questions about the world and much else besides. |
| 0:56.7 | And happy Passover as well if you're celebrating Passover. And there are lots of very interesting |
| 1:02.3 | questions that we cover in this episode. My favourite though is where Lewis takes one hell of a beating. |
| 1:10.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. This is the though, is where Lewis takes one hell of a beating. |
| 1:12.3 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:15.6 | This is The Newsagents. |
| 1:18.8 | It's John. |
| 1:24.3 | It's Lewis and welcome to a special live Q&A episode of The Newsagent, streaming on Global Player. |
| 1:47.4 | And on YouTube, we've been asking for all of your questions for this special Easter weekend edition of the show, John. And if you've been waiting ever so patiently and noticed that we're a couple of minutes late, and I know at least three of you will have been doing so on YouTube, then it's because while the sports agents were running a bit late in our studio. So in the time on the tradition of news programs, waiting for the football to finish, that is why we're two minutes late. So apologies to a... But also people were waiting to see what the knitwear was going to be. Because |
| 1:51.3 | Lewis Goodall, whenever we're doing the live edition, and it's on YouTube, always has a special |
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