Trump’s Chaotic Fiefdom / Zuma's Challenge / North Korean Intrigue

The Irish Times World View Podcast

Speculation is mounting in Washington as to whose head will roll next in the Trump administration, after the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday night. The president’s fiefdom is in chaos, with the precariousness of press secretary Sean Spicer’s position being highlighted in the US press, as well as that of Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and his senior aide Stephen Miller. Flynn’s resignation came after revelations he had discussed US sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office and misled Vice-president Mike Pence about the conversations. On the latest World View podcast, our Washington Correspondent Suzanne Lynch asks whether President Trump knew about those talks at the time and if the whole palaver is indicative of ‘chaotic management’ in his administration. Also on the podcast, Bill Corcoran has the latest from South Africa where parliament punch-ups are the order of the day and embattled ANC leader Jacob Zuma looks likely to have 783 corruption charges reinstated. And, Clifford Coonan reports from Beijing on the apparent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half-brother in Malaysia.