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Betsy Reed (0:00)
This is the Guardian.
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Betsy Reed (0:45)
It really was quite bizarre.
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The lies linking me with the disgraceful
Betsy Reed (0:50)
Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. Even among Fox News crowd, there is just complete bafflement.
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You called the yesterday in your truth social.
Lucy Hoff (1:00)
You called the Iranians crazy bastards. True.
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What is your response to critics who
Betsy Reed (1:06)
say that I don't care about criminals? It did feel like a new low and truly terrifying given that he is so clearly unhinged, threatening to destroy an entire civilization. The extreme corruption, the incredible enrichment of his family. But if the house flips, I do think you're going to see a very different story emerging about what's going on in America.
Lucy Hoff (1:27)
In a dangerous and dramatic week for the world, things have got even stranger in Trumpland. We're joined by the editor of Guardian US to help make sense of it all from the Guardians Today In Focus. This is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined today by Betsy Reed, who is editor of the Guardian US over in London. So it's wonderful to have you in the studio with us. I bet it's quite a good week to be out of the US this week after quite a torrid and dramatic week over there.
Betsy Reed (1:55)
Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited to be here.
Lucy Hoff (1:58)
Well, there's so much that I want to talk to you about, but I want to start, if we can, with the speech given by the first lady, Melania Trump last night. Because it was a sort of sense of real surprise, wasn't it, number one, that she was gonna be giving a speech at all, which she very rarely does, but also what it was going to be about and what it ended up being about was sort of saying that she was trying to discredit the suggestion that she had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. What on earth was going on?
