President Trump's visit to the UK has divided opinion. So how should the UK approach the visit by a US president who isn't a traditional diplomat? Newsnight's Kirsty Wark is joined by a live panel to discuss.
This week's Question Time, filmed in Dartford. Hot topics include the disastrous Chequers Brexit plan and Trump's visit to the UK. Last Question Time until September. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland.
Tabloid reporter Tom Newton Dunn says that President Donald Trump gave Prime Minister Theresa May a ‘wrapped hand grenade’ after he criticized the British Prime Minister in an interview with The Sun.
After a hectic showing at the NATO meeting, Trump arrives in the UK for a visit and immediately causes a stir with an interview criticizing UK PM Theresa May's Brexit plan. Our panel reacts.
Trump confesses that the baby Trump blimp makes him feel unwelcome in London in an interview with The Sun. Pres. Trump also said Boris Johnson would make a great P.M. ahead of his meeting with current P.M. Theresa May. Eugene Robinson and Brian Klaas discuss the interview with Lawrence.
Almost a week after Theresa May's showdown at Chequers that led to David Davis, Boris Johnson and various others you probably haven't heard of quitting, the government's Brexit white paper has been revealed, detailing Britain's negotiating position for life after we leave the EU.
Theresa May declared it "absolutely delivers on the Brexit we voted for." But many Tory Eurosceptics disagree and Labour attacked it as muddled and bad for Britain. Those divisions mean instead of clarity, many feel there's more uncertainty than ever, as we get closer to the no deal cliff edge in March.
Lawrence O'Donnell, Robert Costa and Doris Kearns Goodwin join Morning Joe for a discussion about President Trump's trip to the NATO summit in Brussels and his impromptu press conference on Thursday.
President Trump targeted Germany on Wednesday in reiterating his demand that NATO countries step up their defense spending so that they shoulder a greater share of the burden in protecting Europe from Russia.
Trump and May "clearly don't like each other", according to the New York Times's European economics correspondent Peter Goodman. After a tumultuous meeting with NATO members, President Trump's visit to the UK and his relationship with the prime minister will be scrutinised.
"He can come but I'm not interested in what he has to say" RT's Anastasia Churkina talks to Londoners as Donald J. Trump's UK visit is expected to be met with large protests.
According to new reports, the management at Fox News is growing increasingly unhappy with the performance of Sean Hannity, and they believe that he has turned into a conspiracy theory-spewing White House propagandist. Unfortunately, they won’t do a thing about it because he still pulls in the network’s best ratings, and those numbers will always trump honest reporting. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
The Associated Press is reporting President Trump repeatedly asked senior White House advisers last year about the possibility of a U.S. invasion of Venezuela, in a bid to depose President Nicolás Maduro and his government. Trump reportedly brought up the U.S. invasions of Panama and Grenada in the 1980s. The AP reports Trump’s comment stunned then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who warned military action could backfire. But then, the next day, on August 11, Trump raised the issue publicly. We’re joined by Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and president of Just Foreign Policy.
The world is in a slow energy transition to renewables, which has made it difficult for OPEC to maintain price stability. This transition lies at the heart of Saudi Arabia and Russia's efforts to find new ways for stabilizing oil prices, says Prof. Timothy Mitchell
Ken Clarke has been a Member of Parliament for almost five decades. As the longest serving MP, he talks to Krishnan about why Brexit is in such chaos, his long-standing Conservative views and why he thinks it’s important politicians talk honestly to the media.
The latest political battlegound in the U.S. Senate is soon set to become Donald Trump's choice for Supreme Court judge.
The president's nomination of Republican loyalist Brett Kavanaugh is opposed by Democrats. They say Trump's trying to tilt the nine justices in the highest court in the land towards the conservative right.
Advocacy groups have already begun spending millions of dollars to persuade senators to make the right choice when they vote in the autumn. Their confirmation is expected to shape the Supreme Court for many years to come.
On Inside Story, an in-depth discussion on the rôle of the Supreme Court in the U.S. system.
Presenter: Laura Kyle | Guests: Sandy Levinson, professor of government at the University of Texas Law School; Kenneth Joast, author of the Superme Court Yearbook and legal affiars blog, Jost on Justice; Matthew Mack-o-veeyack, Republican consultant and former aide to President George W Bush
Prof. John Weeks talks about what is behind the Brexit maneuvering that has led to Boris Johnson's and David Davis's resignations from Theresa May's cabinet and how this will affect the process by which the UK plans to leave the European Union
At a protest the night before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, a woman accused me of “taqiyya” on the street. I didn’t know it at the time, but she was telling me I’m a liar because I’m Muslim.
During a disgusting softball interview with Fox News recently, Donald Trump made the absurd claim that his critics are dangerous for this country. Trump is attempting to incite violence once again by claiming that those who don’t blindly follow him are a threat. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Nancy MacLean, Author of must read Democracy in Chains joins the Thom Hartmann Program to the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America.
Ed Schultz, host of ‘News with Ed’ on RT America, passed away on July 5 at his home in Washington, DC. The veteran radio and television broadcaster was 64. RT America’s Anya Parampil is joined by Ed’s RT colleagues for a tribute, including Larry King, Lionel, Mitch Ceasar, Ashlee Banks, Steve Christakos, Dan Cohen and Ed’s longtime producer, Brent Jabbour.
For decades Ed was a prominent sports and political radio commentator and personality in the upper Midwest. After several years as one of the most watched anchormen on MSNBC, Ed moved to RT America in January of 2016. The News with Ed Schultz aired weeknights, Monday – Thursday at 8PM Eastern. Ed’s broadcast was the flagship show at RT.
This week's Question Time, filmed in King's Lynn, with the main focus of debate being dominated by Brexit, and the concept of party before country. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland.
Whistleblowers Shahmir Sanni and Chris Wylie respond to Vote Leave's alleged overspending ahead of an Electoral Commission report expected to find the official Leave campaign guilty of breaking electoral law. Earlier Vote Leave's former chief Matthew Elliott spoke to Channel 4 News and denied the allegations.
The Trump administration has put together a draft of new rules. The draft of the new rules are collected under what they’ve called the United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act – in other words, Trump wants to enact the FART Act to grant himself new powers over trade and tariffs that rebuke both US and international laws. Trump is drunk with power, and it only seems fitting that his FART Act exposes it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
President Trump has written letters to the leaders of NATO allies including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada and warning the United States is losing patience, according to New York Times reporting. The panel discusses.
