Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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5m
Israel thinks it has ‘moral high ground’ says former adviser
We’re joined by Israeli diplomat and journalist, Alon Pinkas, who has also served as an adviser to two former prime ministers: Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres.
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9m
ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu ‘not anti-semitic’ says leading human rights lawyer
We spoke to Geoffrey Robertson KC, a leading human rights lawyer who has been a United Nations war crimes judge.
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5m
‘I don’t know what the American dream is anymore’, says political strategist Cornell Belcher
We’re joined by Democrat-supporting pollster, political strategist and broadcaster Cornell Belcher.
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7m
Voters should get exactly what they voted for’, says progressive commentator on Trump deportation promise
We’re joined by Lance Trover, a Republican strategist and Lauren Windsor, a progressive activist and commentator.
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5m
Trump doesn’t want ‘major Israeli-Iranian war’, says former State Department diplomat
We were joined by Aaron David Miller, who’s a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a former State Department diplomat.
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4m
Elon Musk joins Donald Trump on first call to Zelensky – and his family photo
President Trump will pose challenges to governments all over the world, and news today that Elon Musk – the billionaire owner of social media site X – joined in the first call between Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
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Democrats are ‘out of touch’ with American people, says Republican strategist
We were joined by Republican strategist Kristin Davison.
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4m
Harris loss ‘wasn’t just about Biden’, says former Obama administration advisor
We were joined by Peter Loge, who was a senior advisor in the Obama administration, and is now a professor at George Washington University.
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11m
Trump determined to end Ukraine war, says former National Security Council Chief of Staff
We’re joined by Fred Fleitz, who has worked for the CIA and the Department of Defence, and who worked for the National Security Council during the first Trump administration. He is now at the America First Policy Institute.
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20m
Trump nephew hopes his ‘cruel’ uncle can be ‘positive’ president
One person who was not on the stage with Donald Trump is his nephew Fred Trump, who voted for Kamala Harris.
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23m
Trump and King Charles share bond over environment, says former chief of staff
Among those who worked very closely with the new president-elect but has since fallen out with him is Mick Mulvaney. He served as Acting Chief of Staff in Trump’s first White House for 15 months – but resigned from the administration after the January 6 riots.
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26m
President Trump 2.0 – who might be in the new government?
How will Trump govern this time around? And who will he call on to run his second administration?
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30m
‘There is a lot of hope that Trump can tackle immigration’, says Republican strategist
Cassie Smedile is a Republican strategist and former Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee.
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35m
Democrat loss is ‘on Joe Biden’ not Harris, says Republican pollster
We’re joined by Nayyera Haq, who was a senior director in the Obama White House administration, and Republican pollster Whit Ayres.
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3m
‘A lot of people chose hate over hope’, says Professor of American Culture
We’re joined by Sarah Churchwell, who’s professor of American Culture and Humanities at the University of London.
