Will 'America First' Put Europe Last?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today, Paddy and Adam are joined by Lyse Doucet to discuss developments on the global stage at the Munich Security Conference. JD Vance shocked delegates with an attack on Europe and the UK, who he accused of neglecting their values and ignoring the issue of migration and free speech.
Plus, Hamas has released three Israeli hostages in return for over 300 Palestinian prisoners as the Gaza ceasefire holds in the balance.
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| 0:04.9 | It's very good to see Adam Fleming on a weekend. |
| 0:08.5 | And it's very good to see Paddy O'Connell. |
| 0:10.4 | And it's nice to think about Laura Coonsberg, who will be back very soon. |
| 0:13.8 | And Victoria Derbyshire is going to be popping into the newscast studio on Sunday as well. |
| 0:18.9 | Paddy, this, I mean, if ever there was a time for newscast to be on |
| 0:22.7 | every single day from Monday to Sunday, it is this era. I don't remember a news cycle like it. It's |
| 0:28.0 | volcanic. One week ago, we did not expect another Hamas hostage release. That's happened today. |
| 0:33.5 | We'll be talking about that. And no one was braced for words coming out of the mouth of the Americans in the heart of Germany. |
| 0:40.8 | Yes. And the words were about Europe being the biggest threat to itself. And the mouth was J.D. Vance, the US Vice President, who was kind of making his big debut on the world stage. And he was speaking in Germany at the Munich Security Conference, that annual meeting of Securicrats. |
| 0:55.1 | And we will catch up with Leicestoucet, because she's been there the last few days, run off her feet with all the news from there. |
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