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The last week has seen significant developments in two of the most high-profile and horrific racism cases in the US.

On Monday, the FBI raided his Florida home. 

Joining Matt is Richard Painter – Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and former ethics adviser to President George W Bush.

We have yet to hear what exactly the FBI agents were looking for in the Mar A Lago estate. 

Donald Trump was on one of his golf courses in New York when he heard news that the FBI had descended on his lavish Florida home.

We spoke to Rachel Kyte, a British academic who’s dean at The Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. 

The US Congress is on the verge of approving an historic package of measures to tackle climate change, after senators agreed a $370 billion bill to slash America’s greenhouse emissions and move the country away from fossil fuels to greener, renewable energy.

We spoke to former CIA Director, General David Petraeus and started with a hypothetical: what the US could and should do if China were to invade Taiwan?

China has said that it will halt dialogue with the United States on major issues from climate change to military matters. 

In his prime, Alex Jones was the most listened to far-right conspiracy theorist in the USA.

We were joined from California by Professor Mary Ziegler, law professor and historian of abortion rights in America.

It was the first test at the ballot box since the US Supreme Court overturned a women’s right to an abortion, previously enshrined by the Roe v Wade case. 

We spoke to a member of Taiwan’s parliament, Wang Ting-yu, and began by asking him whether the antagonism of Nancy Pelosi’s visit was worth it.

It was not long after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan that Chinese jets flew across the island’s air defence zone. 

We spoke to Mary Beth Long, who served as assistant secretary of defence under George W. Bush; and Colin Clarke, a counter-terrorism expert and director of research at security consulting firm The Soufan Group.