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‘I set up Trump Tower meeting’: Rob Goldstone interview
At the heart of the Mueller investigation was a meeting between Trump aides and a Russian lawyer promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton – a meeting set up by an email, from a man who now says he wishes he’d never sent it. British-born music publicist Rob Goldstone says that with hindsight, he would read that…
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Trump facing showdown with deputy attorney general
There’s been plenty of political drama in Washington, and this time it’s Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the centre of the chaos. Reports that he was summoned to the White House to either resign or be fired sent the capital into a frenzy, mainly because he is the man in charge of the Mueller investigation into the Trump campaign’s dealings…
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Brett Kavanaugh accuser to testify at Senate hearing
A professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of historic sexual assault has said she will testify at a Senate hearing next week.
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Republican strategist John Burnett: China’s trade tactics are ‘modern-day neo-colonialism’
Erica York, from the Tax Foundation think tank, and Republican strategic adviser, John Burnett, discuss the trade dispute between the US and China.
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China imposes retaliatory tariffs on US
From aircraft to coffee and smoked beef, China has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of American products, in yet another escalation of the trade war.
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9m
Calls for delay in Brett Kavanaugh vote after sexual assault claim
Politicians in the United States are calling for a key vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to be delayed, after an allegation of sexual assault emerged.
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3m
Storm Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut cause death and destruction
President Trump has declared a disaster in North Carolina, where at least five people have died in a tropical storm.
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5m
The bloody Chicago Democratic Convention: 50 years on
Kiran Moodley looks back at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 when the party nearly split in two on the issue.
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4m
Laura Dawson, Canada Institute: Trump using ‘hard bargaining strategy’ on trade
Laura Dawson, director of the Canada Institute at Washington’s Wilson Centre, discusses the US/Mexico trade agreement.
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US and Mexico agree trade agreement
While Theresa May seeks new trade deals in Africa, Donald Trump has been showing how to seal a deal in the US with a proposed new agreement with Mexico, a country with which he’s had a very vexed relationship.
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8m
Trump: ‘Impeach me and market will crash’
‘I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job’, Donald Trump has insisted – telling Fox News that if he was impeached the markets would crash and “everybody would be very poor”. And in another tirade against his former laywer Michael Cohen – who claimed the President directed him to make…
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6m
Michael Cohen: Who is Trump’s former ‘fix-it’ man?
So the man who was Donald Trump’s trusted confidante for over a decade now faces up to 5 years in jail… for Michael Cohen, trashed in public by his former boss – it’s a bitter end to a once beautiful friendship. The son of immigrants – Mr Cohen’s path to the office of the most…
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5m
Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen ‘decided to tell truth’
Lanny Davis is Michael Cohen’s lawyer.
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Alan Dershowitz: ‘A sitting President cannot be charged with a crime’
Harvard Law School’s Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz discusses President Trump.