Security banquet: queries over Trump protection

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”.

An earlier version of our lead story stated that the gunman shot a Secret Service agent. Subsequent reports indicate it is unclear whose shot struck the agent.We have now edited the start of the segment.

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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