The Week in 60 Minutes: Trump's FBI raid & Britain dries up
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The Spectator
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🗓️ 7 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
‘There’s some desperation to get Trump. It’s self-defeating because it justifies his narrative that the “deep state” is out to get him.’ – Freddy Gray
Matt Purple, online editor of The Spectator’s world edition, joins Freddy. On the rest of the show, our political editor James Forsyth and the American Enterprise Institute’s Elisabeth Braw, an expert on resilience, discuss where our water industry went so wrong. Political journalists Patrick O’Flynn and Isabel Oakeshott give their takes on the Tory leadership contest. Christopher Howse, of the Telegraph and The Spectator, explains the joy of a newspaper’s letters page.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Spectator TV, The Week in 60 Minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am your host this week, Katie Balls. |
| 0:17.7 | On the show. |
| 0:19.7 | Electricity bills are going up. Royal mail is going on strike. Airpools |
| 0:23.8 | at a standstill and now we're out of water. Hose pipe bands affecting tens of millions of Brits |
| 0:29.5 | are coming into force. Why isn't water working? I'll speak to James Ossife and Elizabeth |
| 0:34.8 | Brawl. Rishi Sunak and Liz Trust clash this week over what support to offer when energy bills go up again in October? |
| 0:42.3 | What are Sunak and Trust's fellow Conservatives making of the contest so far? |
| 0:46.3 | I'll speak to Patrick O'Flynn and Isabel Oakesholt. |
| 0:49.3 | Donald Trump's Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, was raided this week by FBI agents looking for documents he apparently kept from his time as president. |
| 0:59.4 | Joe Biden, meanwhile, this week, struggled to get his jacket on. |
| 1:03.1 | Freddie Gray and Matt Perth will be on to explain why the US is beginning to resemble a banana republic. |
| 1:10.1 | And to finish, Christopher Howes writes in this week's magazine |
| 1:13.3 | about the joy of a newspaper's letters pages. |
| 1:16.0 | He'll be on the show to explain. |
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| 1:40.5 | never miss an episode after an energy crisis train strikes and chaos at our airports, we now have water shortages. |
| 1:49.0 | Ross Clark writes in the spectator's cover piece this week about who is to blame for our water woes. |
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