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”.

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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