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the total cost of the last british election campaign the general election parliamentary election was $37 million, 25 million pounds. so that gives you some idea of the scale of the difference length cost, length of debate, everything. you say, tim, lunatics with money are never mad, only eccentric in america, talking about donald trump. running for president. yeah yeah. what do you think? i mean brits are used to eccentrics. what do you think brits think of donald trump? i think we see him as being part of a long line of candidates like him. think of herman cain back in 2012 before him ross perot. we re used to this idea of the snake oil salesman the guy who steps in, says if you vote for me i will build roads, i ll give you health care i ll give you everything you want. and then we see them burn up. we don t expect them to do very, very well, but it conforms to a particular cliche in the european mind about america and how its politics work that it s about money, it s abou
and apple bound foreign columnist for the washington post and pulitzer prize-winning author. although american by birth, she s lived overseas for more than two decades and is married to a polish politician. from monday texas city, jorge cass casaneda is an author and professor at nyu. and from london an iraqi journalist currently assistant editor in chief at a newspaper and a yale world fellow. and what does the world think when they re looking at american elections? in a word they think we re insane. our elections are, as far as i know the longest one in any democracy that you can find. and of course by far the most expensive. the last polish presidential candidate on his campaign spent the equivalent of $4 million, which i think might buy you a house seat in this country, but probably not a senate seat.
as i sat one day watching coverage of the 17 republican candidates for president and 5 democratic ones as i thought about the fact that there was still more than 450 days before the election itself as i considered the fact that if jeb bush or hillary clinton wins and then wins re-election in 2020 there will have been a bush or clinton in the white house for 28 of the prior 36 years. and as i watched the donald with his big mouth and his almost bigger make america great again truckers hat i said to myself i wonder what the rest of the world thinks when they see all of this. so let s find out. joining me here in new york are timothy stanley, the british opinion writer currently columnist for the united kingdom s daily telegraph. he is the author of many books about america and its politics.
the capture of the man the u.s. says is responsible for the attack on the american mission in benghazi, libya, may not be enough to make the issue go away. months of intelligence research went into capturing ahmed abu khattala. a week ago, two u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s and at least two fbi agents slipped into libya by sea to nab him and took him to a u.s.-bound navy ship for interrogation. the u.s. justice department plans to try him in a federal court in the u.s. joining me from london is timothy stanley, a writer and historian for britain s daily tell l telegraph. how is it, justified or out of bounds?