The full Epstein files release is imminent, as more photos are released. Meanwhile, Trump hits the stump, cutting a frustrated figure as his poll numbers continue to stay low. 

The UK appoints a new US ambassador. Who is he, and will he be able to curry favour with the president?

A new blockbuster film is announced… with jaw-dropping access to the very heart of the presidency. 

And the Kennedy Center here in Washington DC has been renamed! You’ll never guess what to.

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Donald Trump’s closest advisor, chief of staff Susie Wiles, reveals all to Vanity Fair. In it she eviscerates the vice president, calls out Elon Musk as a ketamine user, and says the president has ‘the personality of an alcoholic’.

Wiles rejects the article, saying she’s been taken out of context. The president says he still has faith in her… for now. 

How revealing of the inner Trump circle is the interview? And what does it tell us about how the president could next act?

Plus - Trump announces a $10bn dollar lawsuit against the BBC. Money that would cripple Britain’s public broadcaster. What next?

And as the jobs market takes a big hit in the US… the president remains on the offensive against Venezuela. His secretary of war continues to bomb boats in the sea. 

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Members of the so-called Turtle Island Liberation Front have been charged with plotting to bomb multiple targets in California on New Year’s Eve.

But who are they, and why has no one ever heard of them before now?

Elsewhere, after legendary film director Rob Reiner and his wife are brutally murdered at their home over the weekend, the president writes online… not a message of condolence, but an attack on the man who’d just lost his life. 

It goes down like a cup of cold sick with both the right and the left. Why did the president politicise this murder?

And a blockbuster UK-US trade deal appears to stall. Or has it?

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A significant escalation in tensions between the US and Venezuela. 

On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that his military had seized an oil tanker off the coast of the South American country.

Then, a day later, the president says a land invasion is about to start.

On the podcast today, we’ll explain what’s happened, what could happen next, and answer why America is even interested in Venezuela.

Plus - Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released after months of detention, and how you can come a US citizen, for the small price of just one million dollars. 

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President Trump is back on the stump for the first time in months on Tuesday. The polls all say Americans are unhappy with his presidency, and with his economy. Can he reverse the tide?

But before that he was sitting down for a blockbuster interview with Politico. In it, the president eviscerates Europe, and Europe’s leaders. 

Even the Pope is getting involved. 

What does this mean for the US-European relationship… and is this the beginning of a big, messy break up?

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A new White House National Security Strategy gives us an insight into how Donald Trump views the world, and the US's place within it.

Is this America rejecting Europe and uprooting the established world order?

Two massive media companies go head to head to buy Warner Bros in a media shake-up that will have a massive impact on the film and TV industry.

The Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president's powers which could see the structure of the federal government significantly changed.

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The leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo come to Washington DC to sign a peace deal. They don't look at each other, don't shake hands, and all the while fighting carries on in eastern Congo. 

Is this all just business masquerading as peace?

Plus - a report shows defence secretary Pete Hegseth (now styled as war secretary) risked endangering the lives of servicemen and women by texting operational details on his personal and non-secure phone. How much pressure is he now under?

Martha reports from California and a town nicknamed "Little Kabul", where Afghan immigrants are now in the crosshairs of Donald Trump's anti-immigration push. 

And the FIFA World Cup draw is here. But as the president continues to threaten to move matches away from Democratic-run cities, how politicised has this global football event become?

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Trump says Somalia "stinks" as he plans a sweeping crackdown on the Somali community in Minnesota. Why specifically them?

The president also hosts his final cabinet meeting of the year.

While Trump’s cabinet members laud him, questions are still being asked of his defence secretary: did he commit a war crime over a boat bombing in the Caribbean? Pete Hegseth has been questioned about it for the first time by the media. What did he say?

Plus, a new-look press corps have started at the Pentagon. Out are the journalists… and in are the conspiracy theorists and a scandal ridden ex-congressman. What’s happened?

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Did Pete Hegseth, former TV anchor now major military commander, order the murder of two unarmed, helpless men at sea in September?

Plus - has this administration's most extreme immigration crackdown just begun? Donald Trump reacts to the shooting of two members of the National Guard by scrutinising those "from third-world countries".

And what's the president's problem with female journalists? He lashes out at two more this weekend after a spate of ill-tempered and rude exchanges over the last few weeks.

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The podcast a day earlier than normal - reacting to the shooting in the nation’s capital on Wednesday afternoon. 

We’ll tell you what we know so far.

Plus - some good news for the president in the courts. Might Donald Trump’s own personal legal woes be finally behind him?

And who, and what, is the Venezuelan gang the president this week proscribed as a terrorist organisation? 

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It's Thanksgiving season in the White House. Trump is pardoning turkeys... all while the US waits to hear from Russia on the latest iteration of the Ukraine peace plan.

This, as Bloomberg reports that Trump's foreign affairs fixer Steve Witkoff has been advising the Russians on how to appeal to the president.

And the effects of Trump's "drill, baby drill" policy come into view. California braces itself for mass oil drilling off its coast.

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