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Every week Talking Politics USA digs into the key topics for a UK audience to understand what’s really going on in Donald Trump’s America. News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby...
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Every week Talking Politics USA digs into the key topics for a UK audience to understand what’s really going on in Donald Trump’s America.
News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby and our team in Washington, led by Dan Rivers and Robert Moore, are joined by political insiders and experts to provide key insights and analysis for a British audience.
Got a question? Email the team at talkingpolitics@itn.co.uk to make sure we’re talking about the topics that matter most to you…
New episodes are released every Monday on every podcast platform and in vision on our ITVX streaming service: https://www.itv.com/
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News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby and our team in Washington, led by Dan Rivers and Robert Moore, are joined by political insiders and experts to provide key insights and analysis for a British audience.
Got a question? Email the team at talkingpolitics@itn.co.uk to make sure we’re talking about the topics that matter most to you…
New episodes are released every Monday on every podcast platform and in vision on our ITVX streaming service: https://www.itv.com/
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7 JUL 2025 · Another week, another public spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. This time it came after billionaire Musk announced he was launching a new party, the America Party, to challenge the Republican and Democratic "Uniparty".But what did Trump have to say about it, and will this feud ever end?
On this week's Talking Politics USA, Tom Bradby and Robert Moore discuss the bromance that’s turned into a bust-up, and where Trump goes from here.
Also on the show, President Trump and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are very different leaders but are the challenges they face the same and what can they learn from each other?
Want to get in touch? Email mailto:talkingpolitics@itv.com
30 JUN 2025 · You might not have heard of Zohran Mamdani, but last week he took New York by storm to win the city's Democratic primary, beating establishment figure Andrew Cuomo and put himself within touching distance of becoming the city's next mayor.
So who is he, how did he do it and why do some people view him as so controversial?
On this week's Talking Politics USA, our Washington producer Aisha Kherallah spoke with Tom Bradby about the 33 year old's remarkable rise.
Also on the show, Tom and correspondent Rachel Younger discuss a week of wins for President Trump - aka "The Daddy" - and what it might mean for his grip on power.
Want to get in touch? Email mailto:talkingpolitics@itv.com
23 JUN 2025 · On Talking Politics USA this week, Tom Bradby is joined by Robert Peston, Emma Murphy in Iraq and Dan Rivers in Washington to discuss America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and the potential consequences for the Middle East and the rest of the world.
The team discuss what Iran might do next, whether President Donald Trump and his administration really want regime change in Iran, and what America's actions tell us about the state of the relationship between the UK and the U.S.
Got a question for the team? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com to make sure we're talking about the issues that matter most to you.
20 JUN 2025 · In a special edition of Talking Politics USA, Lucy Watson is joined in the studio by Jessica Taylor, election expert and analyst for the Cook Political Report, who joined ITV News on US Election night in 2024 as Donald Trump swept to a second term in the White House. They discuss:
- How the growing conflict in the Middle East is splitting the MAGA faithful
- What impact will Trump's popularity have on next year's midterm elections
- And the potential frontrunners to lead the Democratics and Republicans in 2028
Catch up with the latest episode of Talking Politics USA on ITVX, YouTube or on your favourite podcast platform.
Got a question for the team? Email us on talkingpolitics@itv.com or comment below.
16 JUN 2025 · This week on Talking Politics USA, we hear from U.S. correspondent Dan Rivers about what influence Donald Trump could have on the developing conflict between Israel and Iran.
Lucy Watson speak to Pete Souza, the man who was Barack Obama's chief photographer for eight years in the White House and thinks the images from today's administration are more like a "reality show".
And Stacy Foster recalls her whirlwind time covering for Dan in DC - from rushing coast to coast to cover the protests in Los Angeles, to trying to grab a glimpse of President Trump's much-discussed military parade.
Want to get in touch? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com
9 JUN 2025 · In this week's Talking Politics USA, Lucy Watson, US correspondent Dan Rivers and former White House adviser Laura Schwartz answer your questions, including:
- If Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue fighting, who will come out of it worse?
- What's the difference between Trump's travel ban and his 2017 'Muslim ban'?
- How effective is Trump's 'Mexican wall' and immigration policies?
- How can a President who claims to understand business not understand the negative effect from constantly changing tariff arrangements?
- Why are the Democrats approval ratings down so low?
- Is the While House press office just a propaganda machine?
Do you have a question you'd like the team to answer? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com
6 JUN 2025 · Lucy Watson, Dan Rivers, and Laura Schwartz gather for an impromptu bonus episode after relations between the world's richest man and perhaps the world's most powerful man collapsed at lightning speed.
Elon Musk ramped up the row between the pair yesterday after claiming, without evidence, that Trump's administration hasn't released all the records related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because the president is mentioned in them. He wrote on X: "Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public."
So what on earth just happened? Where did this spat begin? And how damaging could this be to the U.S. President?
The team will be back on Monday with another Q&A session.
5 JUN 2025 · Keith Kellogg has perhaps the hardest job of all in the Trump administration. The retired general is the US President's Special Envoy for Ukraine, putting him right at the forefront of the American effort to end Russia's invasion - travelling between Washington, Kyiv, Turkey, the Middle East, attempting to reconcile the very, very different demands of Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and an increasingly impatient Donald Trump. And it has not been an easy ride. He was the first American official to meet with Zelensky after Trump called him a 'dictator' back in February; he was just a metre away when the pair later had that extraordinary shouting match in the Oval Office. And this week, he's been tasked with diffusing escalating tensions after Ukraine's audacious drone attack on Russian war planes. So it was quite a moment for our US Correspondent Dan Rivers to sit down with him for an extended interview, to discuss whether there is really ANY path to peace any more, and what it's been like dealing with Donald Trump behind the scenes.
3 JUN 2025 · This week on Talking Politics USA, Dan goes behind the scenes at the White House to meet Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's 'War Room' and one of the new MAGA media cohort who have been granted greater access by President Donald Trump.
As Elon Musk bids farewell to the White House, Lucy Watson and Laura Schwartz join Dan to discuss whether this really is goodbye to the world's richest man and what his legacy will be.
Plus after Trump goes to war with Harvard, Dan reflects on meeting students at the university and the team discuss the new TACO meme which is ruffling the president's feathers.
Got a question for the team? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com
25 MAY 2025 · In this special edition of Talking Politics USA, Lucy Watson speaks to NBC News Senior Politics Reporter Jonathan Allen, author of 'Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House'.
Jonathan tells Lucy about the shocking stories he and co-author Amie Parnes uncovered about former President Joe Biden's disastrous late exit from the race against Donald Trump in the 2024 election, how he made Kamala Harris beg for his endorsement and how Barack Obama wasn't convinced she was the right candidate.
Lucy and Jonathan also discuss what next for the Democrats, the state of the UK-U.S. relationship under Trump and whether the president is really going down an authoritarian path.
Want to get in touch with the Talking Politics team? Email talkingpolitics@itv.com
Every week Talking Politics USA digs into the key topics for a UK audience to understand what’s really going on in Donald Trump’s America. News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby...
show more
Every week Talking Politics USA digs into the key topics for a UK audience to understand what’s really going on in Donald Trump’s America.
News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby and our team in Washington, led by Dan Rivers and Robert Moore, are joined by political insiders and experts to provide key insights and analysis for a British audience.
Got a question? Email the team at talkingpolitics@itn.co.uk to make sure we’re talking about the topics that matter most to you…
New episodes are released every Monday on every podcast platform and in vision on our ITVX streaming service: https://www.itv.com/
show less
News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby and our team in Washington, led by Dan Rivers and Robert Moore, are joined by political insiders and experts to provide key insights and analysis for a British audience.
Got a question? Email the team at talkingpolitics@itn.co.uk to make sure we’re talking about the topics that matter most to you…
New episodes are released every Monday on every podcast platform and in vision on our ITVX streaming service: https://www.itv.com/
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