The 2024 US election: the starting gun is fired
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The US 2024 election calendar kicks off in earnest this week as the wannabee Republican nominees head to Iowa.
Trump is making a quick pit stop via the courts - to tell them to grant him immunity from prosecution.
And Nikki Haley is trying a novel tactic of pissing off the Iowan voters by telling them that New Hampshire knows better.
Meanwhile, Biden is reminding America Trump is a threat to democracy, as he heads straight to South Carolina for the three year anniversary of the January 6th riots.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | What they've done, and they ought to, you know what they ought to do? |
| 0:09.0 | They ought to release the J6 hostages. |
| 0:12.0 | They've suffered enough. |
| 0:14.0 | They ought to release them. |
| 0:16.0 | I call them hostages. |
| 0:18.0 | Some people call them prisoners. |
| 0:20.0 | I call them hostages. Release the J6 hostages, |
| 0:23.5 | Joe. Release them Joe. You can do it real easy Joe. That is Donald Trump talking about the hostages. |
| 0:31.3 | No, not the ones that were captured by Hamas on October the 7th. You might think that is the rather |
| 0:37.3 | bigger hostage crisis that the world |
| 0:39.9 | faces. That is Donald Trump using hostages as the word for those who were convicted of |
| 0:49.4 | insurrection on January the 6th by due process in the American courts facing prison sentences because of the riot at the capital to stop Joe Biden being sworn in. |
| 1:02.6 | This is mirror image world stuff and right now Trump is going on the offensive because January the 6th is back in the spotlight, |
| 1:12.3 | not just have we seen the third anniversary, |
| 1:15.1 | but Trump is right now in court trying to prove his own immunity to prosecution |
| 1:21.0 | because of who he was a US president. |
| 1:24.7 | And all this coming as Iowa prepares to vote in the first caucus of the year next week, |
| 1:32.0 | and New Hampshire coming a week after that. |
| 1:35.2 | This is an election cycle unlike any other in American history. |
| 1:40.9 | Welcome to Newsagents USA. |
| 1:48.8 | Music and history. Welcome to Newsagents USA. It's John. It's Emily. And four years ago this week, we were just getting off a plane with a |
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