what does he have to achieve by endorsing this party and granting the if these alice vital this platform on x. well brent yeah, you know, who would know you could then be really speculate about what your musk might want to get out of it. i mean, i know that he's a rich man with a social media platform. and possibly he thinks that to any content that attracts attention to an x, even if he has to create to himself is good for business. but i mean, those are pretty clear from things he said that he's keen on the idea of disrupting the political establishment at by which, i mean, really most of the, all the political apologies here in germany that have said that the a half day alternative for germany is on democratic and they what, what with them. so in the last, uh, we'd like to see things change. perhaps the hopes that you know, the i have to do well at these upcoming elections. they'll have more of a say they'll be able to influence policies capacity you level even on things like social media regulation, which is something that i think, you know nice thinks is too restrictive. oh for inst

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the spectator, james heale former labour aide stella shawn seesahai, and political commentator alice grantmes, what do you think? first of all, of my thesis that this administration coming tomorrow is going to want to change europe as well as america? >> i think it's absolutely correct. and i think that that's partly going to be seen in the field of sort of international affairs, if you will, looking most obviously at ukraine and the war that's gone on there, because america has been financing about half the aid that's gone there. but also looking at trade, and i think that you saw there in the package, darren jones talking up the importance of peter mandelson being a former trade commissioner in the eu. and i think that trade is going to be the most immediate thing. i've just returned from canada and tariffs is the big thing with the potential election on the horizon. the other thing i think to think about, of course, is that the political element, the domestic political element of all of this, which is that the trump administration will want to encourage allies and other countries in thi

we are, of course, joined by the wonderful alice grant.e've got emma woolf and we've got samuel sweet. can i just say a very, very happy new year to all of you?! very happy new year to all of you? i do thank you very much for joining us this evening. and i'll start with you. look, this is it's very concerning stuff. it's a breaking, developing story, but, you know, it appears pretty cut and dry. isis has attacked america. >> the man was driving a jeep with an isis flag on it. i don't know why we can't just be honest about this and assess the threat and, you know, make kind of make the put the precautions in place that we need to rather than trying to be politically correct about this or not offend people or i don't know. >> yeah. i mean, it's not our fault there was an isis flag on the back of that truck. right? we didn't do that. you know, he did. >> not at all. but it's interesting actually, because i remember watching the nbc coverage, they focused a lot about the immediate safety precautions, as you mentioned. so for example, bollards