Race for The White House: A Don Deal for Trump?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the Iowa caucus, where voters brave bitterly cold weather to decide who will be their Republican US presidential candidate.
Adam is wished a ‘happy caucus day’ by Mick Mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff to Donald Trump, who tells us why the former president wants to run again. And there’s a special report from Iowa with Americast’s Justin Webb and Marianna Spring.
Plus, Adam and Chris give us a round up of everything going on at Westminster as Rishi Sunak addresses parliament on the strikes against the Houthis in Yemen and MPs brace for the return of the Rwanda bill. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, the second half of this episode of newscast |
| 0:07.1 | is all going to be about British politics. |
| 0:09.1 | What's been the fallout from the US- UK airstrikes on the Huthies in Yemen who've been attacking |
| 0:15.0 | international shipping in the Red Sea and also our old acquaintance the |
| 0:19.1 | Rwanda bill is back in Parliament and there's all sorts of shenanigans we need to catch up on and have clarified |
| 0:25.1 | for us. But the first half of the podcast is going to be about American politics because it's that |
| 0:29.7 | classic moment in presidential election season when things get real. It's the Iowa |
| 0:35.3 | caucus that slightly weird process whereby people go around to their neighbor's |
| 0:39.8 | houses or the local church hall or a leisure center and decide collectively and argue |
| 0:46.1 | over which candidate should get the nomination in the presidential election. |
| 0:50.9 | In this case it's the Republican candidate and in this case, it's probably overwhelmingly likely |
| 0:57.2 | that this will be Donald Trump's first step to being the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election, |
| 1:05.0 | the first of many steps that could see him returning to the White House. |
| 1:09.0 | All will become clear and will be analysed thoroughly on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:13.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:14.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 1:17.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 1:18.0 | Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 1:20.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:24.7 | The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived. |
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