Divided States is the American politics podcast from Sky News looking at all the issues that divide the most powerful country on the planet.
Knives are out for the chair of the central banking system in the United States.
The Trump administration want Jerome Powell out, and they want him indicted. He’s not going anywhere. Who will blink first?
Plus - as anti-government protests accelerate in Iran, Donald Trump warns he’s considering military intervention.
Could the US and Iran be about to lock horns once more?
And in Minneapolis, tensions are still high after the death of Renée Nicole Good. As thousands more law enforcement agents flood the city, we have new footage of the moment the 37-year-old died.
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A woman is shot and killed as she drives away from ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Minnesota is a powder keg as protests begin against immigration officials. Martha Kelner is there.
Plus: after a big intelligence briefing on Capitol Hill, the Senate votes to limit the president's actions on Venezuela.
Five Republicans rebel against Donald Trump. Why, and what does this mean for the president's plans to "run" Venezuela?
The Trump100 team speak to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, one of the key instigators of the incursion that captured Nicolas Maduro.
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Donald Trump makes his first big speech after the US operation in Venezuela. Mexico, Cuba, and Greenland are on watch. It’s quite the speech. We digest it all.
Plus - what a difference five years makes. The White House has launched a new website… it retells the story of January 6. It might not be the version you’ve heard before.
We go down to the Proud Boys' anniversary march in Washington DC and talk to the man who was jailed for 22 years - and then pardoned by Trump - for organising the insurrection.
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The Trump100 team are inside Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse in downtown Manhattan. The site of the arraignment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, both charged with narcoterrorism.
We digest the extraordinary sight of a president of a sovereign country holed up in a courthouse in New York City - facing serious criminal charges.
What did he say in court? And we speak to the dissident who heckled Maduro to his face.
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Venezuela, under the cover of darkness, was hit by a flurry of strikes by US special forces on Saturday.
Military targets were hit, with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro captured by American troops and taken to New York to face trial for narco terrorism.
How did we get we here? And what’s going to happen next?
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Martha Kelner, James Matthews and Mark Stone look ahead to what promises to be a rollercoaster and consequential 2026 in America and beyond.
What could define next year? And what can we learn from this year just gone to help us read the runes?
We go through it all on this New Year’s Special.
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Martha Kelner, James Matthews and Mark Stone look back on a wild and topsy-turvy 2025 in America.
What are the moments that shaped this year? And how has the presidency of Donald Trump reoriented the USA on the global stage?
We go through it all.
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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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