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Security banquet: queries over Trump protection

4/27/202624 min

After a gunman stormed Donald Trump’s dinner with the press, questions are being revived about the president’s security. Germany’s top general explains the country’s new defence strategy. And listeners respond to our Weekend Intelligence episode on the passport bros who go abroad to find “a good woman”.

Guests and host:

  • John Prideaux, host of “Checks and Balance” and US editor
  • Tom Nuttall, Berlin bureau chief
  • Carla Subirana, reporter
  • Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
  • Jason Palmer, co-hosts of “The intelligence”

Topics covered: 

  • Donald Trump, assassination attempt, White House dinner, Cole Tomas Allen
  • Carsten Breuer, Bundeswehr, NATO, Ukraine
  • Passport bros, tradwife, misogyny

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Clips

Security Failure Or Impossible Task?
Is Political Violence Rising?
The Cost Of Overprotection
Fighting The Last War?
Germany’s Manpower Crunch
Passport Bros’ Economic Backdrop
Reporting Uncomfortable Moments
Nostalgia For A Past That Wasn’t

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jason Palmer· Host0:00

    [reverb sound effect] The Economist.

  2. Rosie Blau· Host0:04

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor.

  3. Jason Palmer· Host0:13

    And I'm Jason Palmer.

  4. Rosie Blau· Host0:14

    Today on the show, we speak to Germany's top general and responses to our Weekend Intelligence episode on the Passport Bros. [somber music] But first... [somber music] At the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, Donald Trump, along with hundreds of reporters, had been served his first course burrata salad. Then at 8:32 PM, a gunman ran past security. [gunshots] Shooting a Secret Service agent and attempting to burst into the crowded ballroom.

  5. Donald Trump· Soundbite1:03

    Move, move, move.

  6. Rosie Blau· Host1:07

    Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, were rushed away.

  7. Donald Trump· Soundbite1:10

    Sir. Sir.

  8. Rosie Blau· Host1:13

    The shooter was detained, later identified as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen from Torrance, California. Trump, still wearing his tuxedo, gave a press conference.

  9. Donald Trump· Soundbite1:25

    Nobody told me this was such a dangerous bus- profession.

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