David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Scarborough, with a panel including Conservative MP and prisons minister Sam Gyimah, Labour's Chuka Umunna, Ukip's new leader Henry Bolton, deputy editor of The Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter and the economist and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis.
In an attempt to force the Republican Party’s hand on the tax bill, Senate Democrats proposed adding a new provision to their corporate giveaway legislation that would have forced companies to spend their tax cuts on workers and wages, something that Republicans say will happen if we give corporations more money. Every single Republican in the Senate voted against that measure, and Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins offers up some explanations as to why that happened.
At least 17 communities around the country are now on record calling for impeachment proceedings against President Trump. On Tuesday, the town of Weston, Massachusetts joined that list, when residents supported a citizen petition asking the House to assess whether Trump is violating the Constitution. This comes as a nationwide petition for impeachment launched in October by Democratic donor Tom Steyer has topped more than 3 million supporters. But calls for President Trump’s impeachment have been criticized by some Democratic leaders, who say it should come after investigators have concluded their work. We speak with constitutional attorney John Bonifaz, co-founder and director of Free Speech for People.
Ezra Levant of TheRebel.media explains that British MPs blasting Trump for his tweets about Islamic violence is really about silencing British citizens who share the same concerns as the President.
President Trump shared what are widely seen as virulent anti-Muslim messages on Wednesday, igniting a new firestorm and prompting British Prime Minister Theresa May to say, “It is wrong for the president to have done this.” Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Rizwan Jaka of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center and Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League.
In just 24 hours, Donald Trump goes from threatening to destroy North Korea to chipping away at the so-called special relationship with the United Kingdom.
It has been a week of tough talk and miscommunication by the White House. Donald Trump promised to handle the situation in North Korea after its latest missile test. But he was silent on exactly what that meant.
Several hours later, Trump faced a backlash for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from a far-right group in Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May condemned Trump for the tweets.
Nearly two million people have signed a petition, calling on May to revoke an invitation for a state visit for Trump. Another wrinkle for the administration is the future of America's top diplomat.
The White House is denying reports it plans to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. So what's the foreign policy strategy of the White House?
Presenter: Peter Dobbie | Guests: Charlie Wolf - US political commentator & co-host, of podcast “Pod to be American”, London-based American broadcaster, writer, blogger: Richard Johnson - Lecturer in US politics and international relations, Lancaster University, published on race in American politics (Harvard’s Dubois Review), runs a module on US foreign policy since 1945; Khalil Jahshan - Executive Director, Arab Centre of Washington, former Middle East analyst, Pepperdine University, political analyst
The Trump administration will reportedly oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and install CIA Director Mike Pompeo in his place, with Republican Sen. Tom Cotton replacing Pompeo. Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council says that's a recipe for a US war on Iran
We get response from Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s recent controversial column, “Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last.” Hasan argues the piece is absurdly sympathetic to Saudi Arabia, and that Trump’s friendly relations with the country mean he “is not just a liar and a conspiracy theorist, he’s a hypocrite. He goes on about radical islamic terrorism but cozies up to Saudi Arabia, which many would argue has done more to promote ideologically and financially radical Islamic terrorism than any other country on earth.”
It’s been just over a year since Donald Trump shocked the world and won the US presidency. In that time, he’s managed to upend nearly every political convention, throwing both Washington and the country into chaos nearly every day. He’s also left both major political parties in tatters, with their identity blown to pieces. In their trade for power, the Republicans lost control of their party to Trump and the far-right of their base of voters. And the Democrats have yet to fully come to terms with how and why Hillary Clinton lost. In this episode of Fault Lines, we examine the loss of identity of both the GOP and Democrats and look at what their strategies for rebuilding mean for the country’s future.
Donald Trump has retweeted three inflammatory videos from a British far-right group. The first tweet from Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches. This was followed by two more videos of people Ms Fransen claims to be Muslim. Responding to Mr Trump's posts, UK Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this". Britain First was founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP).
Following the announcement of the royal engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, we asked journalists Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Georgina Lawton and presenter Amal Fashanu if this a significant moment for people of mixed-race heritage.
