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An assassination attempt, J.D. Vance – a relatively unknown Ohio Senator – picked as Donald Trump’s Vice President, and current President Joe Biden desperately clinging on to his own nomination – it’s been another huge week in American politics and there’s still one day left at the Republican National Convention where Donald Trump is due to speak – so what will happen next?

US Senator Bernie Sanders tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why the US should stop its funding for Netanyahu’s “horrific war against the Palestinian people”, why a second Trump victory could foment right-wing movements across the world with disastrous consequences, and why taking on the ruling class is a necessary but “long, long process”, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Nine days to the inauguration of Donald Trump and his first news conference as President-elect became a damage limitation exercise as he angrily dismissed allegations that Russia had compromising material on him.

Donald Trump also said for the first time Russia had been behind hacking attacks.

Donald Trump has begun planning his future White House team, but just when you thought it was over,  a recount of presidential election votes in the US state of Wisconsin will begin on Thursday.

He’ll pull the plug on an international trade deal, kill off energy regulations, and keep upbraiding the media. This is Trump’s America, and it will start, he says, from the day he takes office.

A new political tone, and landscape, is now being set in the US as Donald Trump starts to build his team. And the messages he’s sending, perhaps not surprisingly, are mixed and controversial.

After many months of brutal criticism, a more civil discussion. The Republican President-elect meets the current President for the first time.

For Democrats and many women across the world, last night was supposed to see the shattering of the big symbolic gender glass ceiling – a woman finally getting into the Oval Office.