James Cook
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1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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But the uh but for me, the more fundamental question you both alluded to, which is well if this plane is not safe to fly with Donald Trump because there's a credible threat of a missile hitting it, I mean it's quite the call.
To send it anyway with a load of never mind journalists, but journalists, yes, and staff and the pilots.
Yeah.
I mean it's quite an amazing, amazing thing to suggest without their knowledge.
I then equal but then equally
the bargain.
No, no, no, no, I wasn't I wasn't I was I've not been on Air Force One.
I've been White House travelling press pool once to go to a NATO summit into checkers, but not on not on Air Force One.
The um no all I was gonna say is the temptation in this story as a journalist is to focus on that because it is an unbelievable image to think that the president of the United States is in that catering truck being smuggled away.
But actually the more you think about it, the more questions that we've all been asking here that come up
Actually it's
Far more serious and I think that I think there'll be a lot of fallout from this, won't there?
I think.
It's interesting, isn't it, that this ballroom has become, you know, so closely associated with Donald Trump because it's his idea.
But it it it's but one element of the attempt, some would say, to remake Washington or even remake uh the United States in his image, or at least with his image, as a central feature of the country, tying him as the leader.
leader of the nation to the concept of the nation itself, which we saw so much at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
celebrations of the founding of the United States of America as well.
What is it like walking around Washington at the moment with I mean, is he a dominant figure
i i in terms of the imagery as well, is what I wonder, 'cause I've not been for a while in Academ.
I I I I must say that I I really do like the understated Irish way in which you have described this incredibly frightening and dramatic moment in history as a kerfuffle.
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