Planet America (2025)
The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and the ABC's John Barron set out to discover the real America - its politics and its people - with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride.
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Episode 1 - Fireside Chat (4/8/2023)
Release Date: 2023-08-04Is Trump heading for the White House or the Big House? Will mounting legal woes dent his status as Republican frontrunner? Plus the struggles and scandals of Hunter Biden and a check-in on the 2024 presidential campaign.
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Episode 2 - Fireside Chat (11/8/2023)
Release Date: 2023-08-11America's economy is taking off, but Joe Biden isn't getting the credit. Who else is running for President in 2024? Plus Ohio's win for abortion rights, Trump's lead in the polls and the "fat spat" with Chris Christie.
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Episode 3 - Fireside Chat (18/8/2023)
Release Date: 2023-08-18Is the Georgia indictment the most perilous threat to Trump? Plus the special counsel probe into Hunter Biden, the anniversary of America's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and all the fun of the fair in the Hawkeye state.
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Episode 4 - Fireside Chat (25/8/2023)
Release Date: 2023-08-25Stumped by Trump? Republican presidential candidates spar on the debate stage and a former president surrenders to police. Chas and John break down the winners, losers, and prisoners with Lanhee Chen and Mariana Alfaro.
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Episode 5 - Fireside Chat (1/9/2023)
Release Date: 2023-09-01Could America's deadliest wildfires in a century have been prevented? Plus tracking Trump's trials, the presidential candidate who's already called it quits and the final verdict: did skipping the debate hurt Trump?
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Episode 6 - Fireside Chat (8/9/2023)
Release Date: 2023-09-08'Act of terrorism': the Proud Boys go to jail, so will Trump be next? We ask special guest and Trump 2020 challenger Bill Weld. Reagan's lessons for Biden, America's plan to cut drug prices and what a Tucker! Is Carlson's Obama interview a conspiracy too far?
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Episode 7 - Fireside Chat (15/9/2023)
Release Date: 2023-09-15Payback time for Donald Trump as Republicans launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Plus 50 years after backing a coup in Chile, has America learned its lesson? Chas and John unpack the week in the USA.
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Episode 8 - Fireside Chat (22/9/2023)
Release Date: 2023-09-22Why America is unprepared for war. Defence expert Kori Schake explains Washington's cluster bomb of risk. Plus as another GOP debate looms without Trump, we ask past presidential candidate Gary Bauer whether the abortion issue is losing the former president support from Christian conservatives.
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Episode 9 - Fireside Chat (29/9/2023)
Release Date: 2023-09-29Trump looms large at the Republican debate, despite being a no-show. Ron Reagan Jr on what his Dad would think of today's GOP, chaos and desperation at the southern border plus scandal engulfing someone other than Trump.
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Episode 10 - Fireside Chat (13/10/2023)
Release Date: 2023-10-13Israel-Gaza War: unpacking the politics as Joe Biden's foreign policy is put to the test. Plus chaos in the House as Republicans scramble to find a speaker, and could another Kennedy upend the presidential election?
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Episode 11 - Fireside Chat (20/10/2023)
Release Date: 2023-10-20President Joe Biden seeks billions for Israel and Ukraine in a rare Oval Office address. Plus the frontrunners who fizzled in the race for the White House, and still no speaker as the battle descends into death threats.
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Episode 12 - Wednesday 25/10/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-10Chaos in Congress - Congressman Ro Khanna on the speaker paralysis. Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton on why his old boss is unfit for office. What do Americans think of Biden's handling of the Middle East crisis?
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Episode 13 - Fireside Chat (27/10/2023)
Release Date: 2023-10-27An end to the Speaker standoff in Congress as Trump ally Mike Johnson gets elected. Guest Michael O'Hanlon on the next phase of the Israel-Gaza war. Could presidential candidate Cornel West help Trump get re-elected?
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Episode 14 - Wednesday 1/11/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-01Cornel West on why he's running for president, even if it risks putting Trump back in the White House. The latest dropouts in the election campaign, and why House Speaker 'Maga Mike' marks a new turn for the religious right.
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Episode 15 - Fireside Chat (3/11/2023)
Release Date: 2023-11-03Just one year to go until America elects a new president, Politico's Ryan Lizza has the latest on the 2024 campaign. More from presidential candidate Cornel West and what he thinks about RFK Jr's run for the White House.
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Episode 16 - Wednesday 8/11/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-08Trump comes out swinging after his day in court. Biden faces calls to not seek re-election. Why the Middle East crisis is sparking division among Democrats. Plus Chas and John look ahead to the Third Republican debate.
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Episode 17 - Fireside Chat (10/11/2023)
Release Date: 2023-11-10Republican candidates clash in another Trumpless debate, while Democrats are boosted in state elections where abortion and marijuana are on the ballot. Republican stalwarts Liz Mair and Stuart Stevens chat with Chas and John.
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Episode 18 - Wednesday 15/11/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-15Tensions flare as the House passes a bill to avoid a government shutdown. Plus while Trump appears to take inspiration from fascists, another Republican presidential hopeful bites the dust.
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Episode 19 - Fireside Chat (17/11/2023)
Release Date: 2023-11-17What's driving the increasing polarization in Congress? Political scientist Lee Drutman has some theories. Plus author McKay Coppins joins us to discuss the juiciest revelations from Mitt Romney's tell-all biography.
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Episode 20 - Wednesday 22/11/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-22On the 60th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Chas and John ask veteran newsman Darwin Payne what it was like to cover the biggest story of his generation.
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Episode 21 - Fireside Chat (24/11/2023)
Release Date: 2023-11-24Was JFK overrated? Author/journalist Nick Bryant and veteran Democrat strategist Bob Shrum join Chas and John to talk Kennedys, conspiracies and what might have been.
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Episode 22 - Wednesday 29/11/2023
Release Date: 2023-11-29Gaza's fragile truce, how Nikki Haley got Don worried and why Fox News invented a terrorist attack.
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Episode 23 - Fireside Chat (1/12/2023)
Release Date: 2023-12-01Death of a statesman: a look back at Kissinger's blood-stained legacy. Plus eyes in the sky - the secret in-flight mission to spy on travellers and also Chas and John debunk Trump's '10,000 troops' malarkey.
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Episode 24 - Wednesday 6/12/2023
Release Date: 2023-12-06Chas and John bid a fond farewell to disgraced Congressman George Santos and talk to one of America's top pollsters Celinda Lake about President Joe Biden's sagging polls.
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Episode 25 - Fireside Chat (8/12/2023)
Release Date: 2023-12-08Swings and misses but who was the winner? Republican strategist Ford O'Connell on the good, bad and ugly of the Fourth GOP debate. The clock ticks down on aid for Ukraine, plus Trump's "dictator" re-election pledge.
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Episode 26 - Wednesday 13/12/2023
Release Date: 2023-12-13Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's desperate day in Washington, Hunter Biden's X-Rated expenses, plus the latest on the race to the White House and Donald Trump's race to the courthouse.
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Episode 27 - Fireside Chat (15/12/2023)
Release Date: 2023-12-15Chas, John and politics guru Bill Wyman join former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks on the trials of Trump, writer Peter Beinart on the campus free speech controversy and strategist Doug Gross on the Iowa caucuses.