Trump says he'll stay out of the election...then talks about Johnson, Brexit and the NHS
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
ITV News
4.3 • 179 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 20 of calling Peston. I'm Daniel Hewitt. That is Shihab Khan and as ever, |
| 0:11.5 | we will be calling Robert Peston for his take on the day's big news. Also on today's podcast, |
| 0:17.8 | we'll be speaking to our national editor, Legra Stratton, who has spent |
| 0:22.0 | lucky her the last four weeks, traveling around the UK, visiting the most important |
| 0:27.1 | seats in this election in her battleground series. We'll be speaking to her about what she's |
| 0:32.2 | been hearing on the ground out there in the country. But first, here's my colleague, my co-host, my friend. |
| 0:38.6 | She-Hab calm with the rundown of the day's news. |
| 0:40.5 | That's the nicest thing you ever said. |
| 0:41.8 | That's all right. |
| 0:42.4 | Gric on. |
| 0:43.2 | The US President Donald Trump is in the UK for the NATO summit |
| 0:46.8 | and vowed not to get involved in British politics |
| 0:49.3 | ahead of the general election. |
| 0:51.7 | He did, however, say that he thought Boris Johnson was very capable, but he could work |
| 0:55.7 | with anybody, and that he was a fan of Brexit. |
| 0:58.8 | But when asked about whether or not parts of the NHS should be included in a future trade |
| 1:04.1 | deal, he said, |
| 1:05.7 | I don't even know where that rum is served. |
| 1:08.1 | We have absolutely nothing to do with it. And we wouldn't want to. |
| 1:12.2 | If you handed it to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it. So he wants nothing to do |
| 1:17.6 | with it. Today, Boris Johnson had a walkabout in Salisbury where he was pictured handing out Turkish |
| 1:22.1 | delight. He then went off to attend some events for the NATO summit. Today, during an interview on this morning, |
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