The Manhattan Project for our time
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Donald Trump has named a Fox News anchor as his pick for Defence Secretary. And the former governor of South Dakota, known better in this country as the woman who shot her own dog, is set to be his head of Homeland Security. What do his picks tell us about the direction of travel of the incoming administration? And why has he had to appoint not one, but two heads to run the Department of Government Efficiency?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I don't think I've washed my hands for 10 years. |
| 0:15.3 | Really, I don't really wash my hands ever. |
| 0:18.1 | Don't want to help me. |
| 0:19.4 | No, I inoculate myself. It's just not germs are not a real thing. I can't really wash my hands ever. Someone help me. No, I inoculate myself. |
| 0:22.4 | It's just not germs are not a real thing. |
| 0:24.1 | I can't see them. |
| 0:25.4 | Therefore, they're not real. |
| 0:26.2 | So you're becoming immune to all of the bacteria. |
| 0:28.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:28.8 | I can't get sick. |
| 0:29.6 | You might want to get used to that voice because it's America's next secretary of defense. |
| 0:35.4 | Donald Trump has just nominated a Fox News host who once injured a man |
| 0:40.8 | when missing a target in an axe-throwing contest. There is Pete Hegsteth. And you might think it's |
| 0:48.1 | surprising that Donald Trump would appoint him when Trump is such a well-known germaphobe and doesn't |
| 0:53.4 | like shaking hands with people because he fears they haven't |
| 0:56.1 | washed their hands. But this |
| 0:58.0 | is the cabinet that |
| 1:00.1 | is taking place now |
| 1:01.7 | at Mara Lago as Donald |
| 1:03.9 | Trump prepares to travel to sit |
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