who will win a second term in the white house, or might someone else get the chance of a first? and can china survive a third term for president xi? in the studio are: jeff mcallister, time magazine s white house correspondent during the clinton years, and then chief of the magazine s london bureau. he and his wife now run their own international law firm. eunice goes, a portuguese writer and academic, lectures on comparative government which, i guess, is how countries learn from each other s mistakes; and steve richards, who arrived at westminster just as the conservative party was evicting margaret thatcher from downing street. the latest episode of rock and roll politics, his podcast, is entitled the next labour government and the power of markets. have events of the last few hours, perhaps certainly the last few weeks, steve, provided you with an insight into those two thoughts, the power of the market and the prospects for a change of government? prospects for a change
andrea mitchell about the republican backlash to president biden s trip. it s really not even worth my brain space to spend time responding to fools. these people know nothing about national security informed policy, they don t understand that it s in our strategic interests and security interests and the american peoples interest to have a stable prosperous and free europe in a free world. that s what this fight is about. congressman verbally rolling his eyes, how are most democrats huddling this new outrage of fuel from the front right? there hasn t been a lot of response to it. a lot of these democrats, even republicans say that this vocal far-right they get too much attention. they don t have that much power in congress. well, that s partially true but when such a slim majority when mccarthy can only lose four votes in order to pass anything, they know that their power matters and that their voice does matter, but this aspect of
that it s in our strategic interests and security interests and the american peoples interest to have a stable prosperous and free europe in a free world. that s what this fight is about. congressman verbally rolling his eyes, how are most democrats huddling this new outrage of fuel from the front right? there hasn t been a lot of response to it. a lot of these democrats, even republicans say that this vocal far-right they get too much attention. they don t have that much power in congress. well, that s partially true but when such a slim majority when mccarthy can only lose four votes in order to pass anything, they know that their power matters and that their voice does matter, but this aspect of the party has come a long way from ronald reagan, and this is the tension that the party is currently in, and it s going to be really interesting how this bubbles up to the presidential
there are constraints. the portuguese government has dealt with constraints for a very long time and the european union is a very big constraint. it forces a kind of fiscal responsibility to the government. liz truss came in and thought that she was able to set up and to enrol and implement a radical agenda for which voters had not voted in, in 2019. if she would be a student in my class, i would be doubted one of the first things i tell my students is that they need to learn the constraints, power matters. the fact that if you don t have powerful supporters, supporting your agenda, you are not going to be able to implement it. timing matters. to start to implement an agenda that is essentially to support the 1% at a time of a cost of living crisis is cognitive dissonance of a higher magnitude. thirdly, there is the whole question of timing,
not voted in 2019. so if she was a student in my class, i would be. one of the first things that i tell my students is that they need to learn is the constraints. so first of all, power matters and the fact that if you don t have powerful supporters supporting your agenda, you re not going to be able to implement it. timing also matters. so to start to implement an agenda that is essentially to support the 1% at the time of a cost of living crisis is cognitive dissonance of a high magnitude. and thirdly, there is the whole question of timing, the question of power, but also evidence based politics. so are you trying to implement an agenda for which there is no evidence that it s going to work? it is all very laudable to want to implement a pro growth agenda, but there is no evidence whatsoever that liz truss s agenda would lead to growth. giving tax cuts to millionaires,