Trump, Texas and Title 42
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Has Donald Trump’s sexual assault verdict damaged his reputation? The Americast team explains why a top Texas Republican thinks he’s toast, even though Trump is fighting the ruling.
Sarah is on the US border with Mexico in El Paso, where a controversial Trump immigration policy known as Title 42 is about to expire and a state of emergency has been declared. A Texas Congressman and Democrat, Joaquin Castro, tells us why he blames President Biden as well as Trump.
And Santos Watch is back after the under-fire congressman George Santos was charged with fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Joaquin Castro, Texas congressman (Democrat)
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CLIP CREDITS: • ABC ‘Good Morning America’
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Alix Pickles, Ivana Davidovic and Natasha Fernandes. The studio manager was Dafydd Evans and the sound designer was David Crackles. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | God, I love Texas. There's just something about it. |
| 0:10.3 | It's the space, it's the big sky, |
| 0:13.9 | the way in which people unironically wear cowboy hats. |
| 0:18.0 | There's just something about it that's different |
| 0:19.9 | from the rest of the US. |
| 0:22.2 | But here's the reason I'm blathering on. |
| 0:24.6 | Where are you, Sarah? |
| 0:25.9 | I'm in El Paso, where, as you say, it is beautiful. |
| 0:28.9 | I just watched the sunrise over some mountains |
| 0:31.0 | straight out from my hotel room. |
| 0:32.8 | Texas is everything you say and more. |
| 0:34.8 | I think the air is different, the light is different. |
| 0:37.2 | It's just something about the wide open spaces |
| 0:40.0 | that are so far away from what we're used to in the UK. |
| 0:43.0 | And yeah, I came a long way. |
| 0:45.0 | I went from Edinburgh to Dublin to Washington, DC |
| 0:48.1 | to Dallas for worth and then on to El Paso. |
| 0:50.6 | Fridge Magnets all the way. |
| 0:52.4 | Look, we're going to talk in depth about Texas |
| 0:54.7 | because it's a very good place to base ourselves |
| 0:56.8 | on base you this week. |
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