John Lyons
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231 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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I managed to get three questions into him.
And the White House, I think, thought that our piece was fair.
We'd been engaging with them, by the way, for some weeks by email.
We'd been sort of checking things with them.
It wasn't done sort of secretly.
We were very upfront with the White House about it.
And they fed material which we put into the program.
And I think that they would have thought the president is happy to take these questions.
I knew too at that moment that even if President Trump did tell on me to the Australian Prime Minister, I was confident that my bosses at the ABC wouldn't bow to that sort of pressure, which in itself is pretty extraordinary.
There are no shortage of media groups around the world, especially here in America at the moment.
where the media is going through convulsions.
Look at what's happening at CBS 60 Minutes.
There's no shortage of organisations here in America that clearly do not want to upset the president.
I upset the president.
It wasn't my intention to, and my bosses at the ABC supported me.
The benefit of a publicly funded broadcaster is, of course, that you're not subject to those sort of financial pressures and
And for that, I'm very grateful.
And I was able to ask the president these questions in that confidence.
Traditionally, most presidents have opted to put their investments into blind trusts.
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