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Is Donald Trump moving towards the political mainstream?
Bipartisan, flexible and willing to compromise: Donald Trump? Really? He now seems happy to negotiate the thorny issue of immigration with Democrats and Republicans alike. It’s a far cry from his hardline election pledge. So after the very public break-up with the man behind that hardline direction, Steve Bannon, is President Trump moving towards the…
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Jan Halper-Hayes: There’s ‘method’ in Trump’s ‘madness’
Joining us is Jan Halper-Hayes, former Vice President of Republicans Overseas.
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Roy Moore loses to Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama
The Democrats are celebrating their shock victory over Trump style politics: as African American voters in particular turned out in big numbers to defeat the Republican candidate Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race. Our coverage begins in Gadsden, Alabama, with one of the women who accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct.
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Alabama voters prepare to elect new Senator
President Trump is yet to comment on the attempted attack, but away from New York, in Alabama voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new senator. The conservative southern state hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate for 25 years but that now hangs in the balance – with the Republican candidate…
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Democratic Senator resigns due to sexual harassment allegations
US comedian turned Democratic Senator Al Franken has resigned from office over allegations of sexual harrassment. On the way out, he attacked the Republican party for ‘hypocrisy’, over how it’s dealt with its own members facing similar accusations.
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FactCheck: What are the options for the Irish border after Brexit?
What happens to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is proving to be a major challenge in the Brexit negotiations. FactCheck takes a look.
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Democrat Senator Al Franken apologises over sexual harassment claims
Democrat Senator and former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken has apologised after a radio anchor accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her in 2006. It comes as two more women emerged to accuse Republican Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety.
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Roy Moore refuses to pull out of Senate election
He’s been described as a national emergency for the increasingly desperate US Republican party. Not Donald Trump, but Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. He faces allegations of historic sexual abuse of teenagers. His latest accuser came forward overnight. Senate Republican leaders are calling on Moore to withdraw from the special election race, but so far,…
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FactCheck: has Trump kept his big campaign promises?
It’s a year since Trump’s election. FactCheck looks at how he’s getting on with the wall, the “Muslim ban”, the “greatest jobs president” and more…
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Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump’s actions are ‘destabilising and dangerous’
Hillary Clinton has called Donald Trump’s actions “destabilising and dangerous”, and criticised his 2016 campaign for ‘feeding scapegoats and prejudices’. The 2016 Democrat Presidential candidate, speaking to Channel 4 News, covered a wide range of issues, including her own campaign, Donald Trump and the the recent allegations of rape and sexual harassment against film producer Harvey Weinstein.…
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Alfred Bosch: ‘There will be some kind of declaration of independence’
Alfred Bosch, from the Republican Left party, discusses Catalonian independence.
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Protests at Trump rally in Phoenix
President Trump may have opened his speech to supporters in Phoenix last night with calls for unity. But it wasn’t long before he was giving full rein to his own anger, slamming the media, his own Republican party and Congress – threatening a government shutdown. As his 77-minute rampage came to a close, angry protests…
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Scottie Nell Hughes: ‘this looks like a fishing expedition.’
Republican strategist Scottie Nell Hughes join us from Nashville in Tennessee and from Los Angeles, Professor Jessica Levinson from Loyola Law School.
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Former Royal Marine bomb maker jailed
A former Royal Marine who lived a double life as a bomb maker for dissident Irish republicans has been jailed for 18 years 31 year old Ciaran Maxwell stashed away a huge cache of weapons, including anti-personnel mines and pipe bombs. Four of the devices were later used in attacks by violent extremists in Northern…
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Trump frustrated over Obamacare replacement
It was one of his flagship election pledges, yet President Trump has lost his bid to repeal and replace large parts of Barack Obama’s healthcare law for the second time, after two Republican senators refused to back the proposal. A furious President, on Twitter, declared Congress should just repeal Obamacare and worry about replacing it…
