2024-11-09
37 分钟After a “magnificent victory” for Donald Trump in the US election, Charles Hecker and Vincent McAviney unpack this week’s news. They discuss Musk’s call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the three men charged with an “Iran-linked” assassination attempt and how world leaders will win Trump’s favour in his second term. Plus: journalist HJ Mai speaks to voters in Washington and Monocle’s Chris Cermak on the health of democracy with Moldovan election officials. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on the 9th of November 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello, good morning.
I'm Vincent McAvini, broadcasting to you live from Midori House here in London.
This is Monocle on Saturday.
Coming up on today's program, we look through the week's news and culture with political analyst and author Charles Hecker.
Then I think that the attraction of Trump to a lot of union members and a lot of working class voters were really on social issues.
Journalist H.J.
mai looks at what went wrong for the Democrats in the U.S.
election.
And Monocle's Chris Chermax speaks to Moldova election officials about the health of democracy.
That's all ahead on Monocle on Saturday.
With me, Vincent McAvini.
First, though, here are the day's main news headlines.
Former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said her party might have fared better in Tuesday's election if President Joe Biden had exited the race sooner.
Pelosi, who is widely thought to have led the push to oust President Biden, told the New York Times had he gone earlier, Democrats could have had a full open primary.
The Republicans are now expected to take control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The U.S.
government has brought charges against an Afghan national in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected president.
The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against 51 year old Farhad Shaqeri, alleging he was tasked with providing a plan to kill Trump.
The US government said Mr.