Chris Spyrou

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12,341 appearances 106 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Chris Spyrou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 106 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 30.

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The Briefing · Sydney Swans under investigation + Trump’s mouthpiece has quit. What now? · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

To dig in, I'm joined by Associate Professor at the US Studies Center at the University of Sydney, David Smith. voice-verified

David, welcome back to the briefing. voice-verified

I want to start with the detail voice-verified

Koi plane, it's pretty routine for a president to be moved off and onto another plane amid a security scare, right? voice-verified

You refer to it as an unusually long period for us to find this out. voice-verified

Why do you think it took us so long to find out? voice-verified

Do you think this is the US's way of, I don't know, maybe trying to hide from the fact that they were fooled into believing this was a genuine threat? voice-verified

All right, so at the center of that hostile relationship with the media, we have the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt. voice-verified

She announced her resignation last week. voice-verified

But the Dequay Plane story and her resignation seemed to get mushed into one. voice-verified

Even though we know she wasn't on the trip, why do you think though that theory caught fire and spread so far and wide? voice-verified

Let's talk about that a little further. voice-verified

Levitt, you know, is the fifth high-profile woman to leave any second term. voice-verified

We've had Christy Noam, she was fired. voice-verified

We've had Pam Bondy, she was also fired. voice-verified

Tulsi Gabbard, she resigned. voice-verified

And now we have Caroline Levitt as well resigning, saying that, you know, she wants to spend more time with her family after coming back from maternity leave. voice-verified

It's tempting to call this a voice-verified

pattern that Trump is struggling with women in his second administration and that he wants to push him out. voice-verified

But that doesn't accurately tell the story, does it? voice-verified

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