Why the Trump administration is not a reliable ally to Britain
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this week's episode of The News Agents USA Jon is joined in the studio by Jamie Raskin, a congressman and senior figure in the Democratic Party, who led the impeachment of Donald Trump after January 6th.
In an exclusive interview he discusses the future of the democratic party, free speech, the relationship between Trump and the UK, his role in ousting Joe Biden as the party's nominee for President in 2024, and his recent spat with Nigel Farage.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. Is America still a reliable ally to us? |
| 0:17.1 | I think the American people are. Yeah. This administration? No, I think we have a problem with this administration. I think that they are really caught up with the autocrats and the dictators and the bullies of the world. |
| 0:29.3 | That is Jamie Raskin, one of the most senior Democrats in the Congress, who is in London at Chatham House, and he is unsparing in his criticism of Donald Trump |
| 0:41.3 | and the threat he poses to democracy. We have an exclusive interview with him while he's in the UK. |
| 0:48.5 | Welcome to the newsagents USA. |
| 1:03.6 | It's John. Now, Jamie Raskin is one of the foremost Democrat lawmakers. He led the prosecution, the impeachment, if you like, of Donald Trump after the events of January |
| 1:08.4 | the 6th, a position that was appointed to him by Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:12.4 | And it earned a permanent enmity with Donald Trump. |
| 1:15.7 | Trump recently called Raskin ugly and a dope and a loser in block capitals. |
| 1:21.8 | To which Raskin replied, I suppose I don't like being called ugly by Donald Trump, |
| 1:26.8 | but not everyone can live up to his |
| 1:28.8 | exquisite levels of handsomeness and personal physical grace. |
| 1:34.8 | Ruskin also didn't endear himself that much to Joe Biden when he became one of the first |
| 1:38.7 | democratic lawmakers to write to him and say, maybe it was time to get out of the presidential race. |
| 1:45.7 | He's the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and represents Maryland's 8th Congressional |
| 1:50.7 | District and is in London looking at the crisis in free speech. Congressman Raskin, |
| 1:58.3 | thank you very much for being with us and welcome to the newsagents. |
| 2:01.3 | Let me start with that crisis in free speech because I've just heard the speech you've delivered, |
| 2:06.0 | where you lacerated the Vice President J.D. Vance for the things he said that the real crisis in free speech was not Russia or China, it was Europe. |
| 2:17.2 | Is America still a reliable ally to us? was not Russia or China, it was Europe. |
| 2:21.2 | Is America still a reliable ally to us? |
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