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The News Agents

This week on The News Agents: USA - Vladimir Putin: Trump's Russian running mate?

The News Agents

Global

Politics, Daily News, Government, News

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Emily and Jon host a weekly podcast; giving you everything you need to know about the world of US politics and how it affects you.

Episodes are available every Tuesday exclusively on Global Player and all other platforms every Wednesday.

Find the latest episode of News Agents USA here on Global Player.

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0:00.0

The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:08.2

This is a global player original podcast.

0:11.9

Coming up on the Newsagents USA, we ask, are you ever allowed to say you're going to bed

0:17.0

when you're the president of the United States?

0:19.4

This was Joe Biden in Vietnam.

0:21.1

He may have a game plan. He just hasn't shared it with me. But I tell you what, I don't know about you,

0:27.2

but I'm going to go to bed. And this was what David Frum, who worked for George W. Bush, told us.

0:35.1

George W. Bush, for whom I worked, who was at that point in his, I think middle 50s, a mountain

0:40.2

biker, a compulsive exerciser in phenomenally good shape, at one minute past 10 o'clock,

0:45.4

would stand up and say, I'm going to bed.

0:48.8

Because when you're 56 and a mountain biker and you go to bed at 10 o'clock. Everyone says, well, I guess we all know you

0:54.9

get up at 5.30 and are in the office by 6. 10 o'clock is bedtime. But when you're 80 years old

1:01.6

heading forward to 81, people interpret it differently. And so Biden's problem is in his own mind,

1:07.6

it's a George W. Bush reasonable thing to say, I'm going to bed. That's not how it

1:12.0

resonates. We'll be looking at that refound love between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,

1:17.9

and also the bit of advice that Trump gave to Kim Jong-un about real estate in North Korea.

1:24.5

I went over there. You remember that? It was a very historic moment.

1:28.2

Went over there.

1:33.1

And I said to Kim Jong-un, you know, being a real estate guy, it's just sort of natural.

1:36.9

I said, you have the most beautiful shoreline.

1:40.2

Think of it.

1:41.1

You're between China, Russia, and South Korea.

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