Planet America

Season 2012

Campaign insiders, top reporters and pundits join the ABC's John Barron and The Chaser's Chas Licciardello on Planet America each week. Essential viewing for political junkies or those just trying to work out what on earth is going on in the US election.

Where to Watch Planet America • Season 2012

44 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton and former NSW premier Bob Carr as they analyse America's presidential election process.
  • Episode 2
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    Episode 2John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to US Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger and former NSW Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski.
  • Episode 3
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    Episode 3John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to MIT economist Jon Gruber and former Washington BBC correspondent Nick Bryant, while Julia Baird spoke to New York Times columnist David Brooks.
  • Episode 4
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    Episode 4John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to Republican strategist Ford O'Connell, Brendon O'Connor from the United States Studies Centre and US economist and author Woody Brock.
  • Episode 5
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    Episode 5John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to former Mitt Romney advisor Steve Lombardo, social media expert Andrew Kaczynski from BuzzFeed and James Fallows from The Atlantic Monthly.
  • Episode 6
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    Episode 6John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to former Newt Gingrich aide Scot Faulkner, Republican media consultant Alex Castellanos and Labor MP and former NSW premier Kristina Keneally.
  • Episode 7
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    Episode 7
  • Episode 8
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    Episode 8John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to pollster and Republican strategist Ed Goeas, YouTube video producer Hugh Atkin and Senior Lecturer at the United States Studies Centre Dr Harry Melkonian.
  • Episode 9
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    Episode 9John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to Republican new media guru and former Rick Perry adviser Liz Mair, CNBC chief political reporter John Harwood and former BBC Washington correspondent Nick Bryant.
  • Episode 10
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    Episode 10John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to evangelical pastor Dr Richard Land, Professor Quin Monson from Brigham Young University, founding fathers expert and Pulitzer Prize winner Professor Jack Rakove, former ABC Washington correspondent Michael Gleeson and former NSW Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski.
  • Episode 11
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    Episode 11John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Bill Schneider, Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University, Justin Levitt, and Michael Fullilove from the Lowy Institute.
  • Episode 12
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    Episode 12Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to former US secretary of commerce Mickey Kantor, former Newt Gingrich staffer Scot Faulkner, Tom Switzer from the United States Studies Centre and author Ed Blakely.
  • Episode 13
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    Episode 13Chas Licciardello and Michael Rowland speak to Salon writer Glenn Greenwald, Nicole Hemmer from the US Studies Centre at Sydney University and former NSW Liberal Leader and Australian soldier Peter Collins.
  • Episode 14
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    Episode 14Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to US Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger, election analyst Sean Trende, Julian Sanchez from the Cato Institute and former NSW premier Kristina Keneally.
  • Episode 15
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    Episode 15Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to former CIA interrogator Glenn Carle, Washington DC journalist Annie Groer and best-selling author and political commentator Jim Hightower.
  • Episode 16
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    Episode 16Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to Bill Clinton's former labour secretary Robert Reich, journalist and author Joe McGinniss and Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ken Mayer.
  • Episode 17
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    Episode 17Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to Norman Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute, Thomas Mann from the Brookings Institution, Democrat presidential candidate John Wolfe and former NSW Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski.
  • Episode 18
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    Episode 18Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to ABC News North America correspondent Craig McMurtrie, author of The Real Romney Michael Kranish and former Washington Post White House correspondent Michael Fletcher.
  • Episode 19
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    Episode 19Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to Associate Professor Caroline Heldman from Occidental College in New Orleans, blogger Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic Monthly and politics lecturer Dr David Smith from the US Studies Centre at Sydney University.
  • Episode 20
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    Episode 20Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to political scientist from the University of Colorado Scott Adler, journalist and academic from the Arizona State University Steve Doig, and Professor of US Politics at Stanford University Gary Segura.
  • Episode 21
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    Episode 21Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to ABC News North America correspondent Jane Cowan, Professor Sara Rosenbaum from George Washington University, Republican political strategist Ford O'Connell and former NSW premier Kristina Keneally.
  • Episode 22
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    Episode 22Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to George Mason University Professor of Economics Lawrence White, Professor of Sociology Bruce Western from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and journalist and author James Fallows.
  • Episode 23
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    Episode 23Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to author of Capitol Punishment Jack Abramoff, US-Mexico border issues expert Josh Trevino from the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former BBC Washington correspondent Nick Bryant.
  • Episode 24
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    Episode 24Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to former Obama healthcare adviser Professor Jon Gruber, Politics PA editor Keegan Gibson, and author of The Unfair Trade Michael Casey.
  • Episode 25
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    Episode 25Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to former Mayor of Pittsburgh Tom Murphy, author of American Stories, Michael Brissenden, and Dr Nicole Hemmer from the United States Studies Centre.
  • Episode 26
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    Episode 26Chas Licciardello and John Barron speak to former Palin adviser Boris Epshteyn, Better Markets CEO Dennis Kelleher, and The Spectator Australia editor Tom Switzer.
  • Episode 27
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    Episode 27In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to NASA Program Executive for Solar System Exploration Dave Lavery, Professor Anatol Lieven from the War Studies Department of King's College London and David Weisbrot from the United States Studies Centre.
  • Episode 28
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    Episode 28In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello speak to Republican strategist Liz Mair, Democratic adviser Mark Levine, former director of national intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair and editor of The Drum online Chip Rolley.
  • Episode 29
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    Episode 29In this episode, Chas Licciardello and John Barron invite expert analysis from Bill Schneider, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and chief executive of the United States Studies Centre Geoffrey Garrett to dissect the bipartisan posturing in the lead up to the US election.
  • Episode 30
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    Episode 30In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello cover the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida, talking to Republican strategist Ford O'Connel, former Chairman of the California Republican Party Ron Nehring, and Hawker Britton's Michael Gleeson.
  • Episode 31
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    Episode 31In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello cover the Democratic National Convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, talk to a couple of leading Democrat strategists, plus the Global Mail’s Mike Seccombe.
  • Episode 32
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    Episode 32In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello talk to one of the key figures in the Bush administration about how president Romney might do things differently.
  • Episode 33
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    Episode 33In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello discuss Mitt Romney's worst week in the campaign and talk about the key state in the election, Ohio.
  • Episode 34
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    Episode 34In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello preview the first Presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
  • Episode 35
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    Episode 35This week, John Barron is in Washington for the presidential debate. He talks to the Democrat candidate who ran against George Bush Snr. in 1988, Michael Dukakis.
  • Episode 36
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    Episode 36This week, a wrap of the Biden vs Ryan debate, and whether evangelicals will vote for Romney.
  • Episode 37
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    Episode 37In this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello wrap up the second presidential debate and take a look at negative campaign advertising.
  • Episode 38
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    Episode 38The US presidential race is still too close to call and in this episode, John Barron and Chas Licciardello look at why.
  • Episode 39
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    Episode 39With less than a week to go until the US presidential election, John Barron and Chas Licciardello take a look at the key state of Ohio.
  • Episode 40
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    Episode 40After a huge week in the US, tonight's episode of Planet America has a complete wrap of the election results and the issues that decided it.
  • Episode 41
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    Episode 41On tonight's episode of Planet America, the sudden resignation of CIA head David Petraeus, and the boys talk about the fiscal cliff.
  • Episode 42
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    Episode 42
  • Episode 43
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    Episode 43
  • Episode 44
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    Episode 44It's a very Planet America Christmas! In the final episode for 2012, Chas and John speak to author and former banker Das, plus the ABC's Craig McMurtrie, Peter Hartcher from SMH and Aron Pilhofer from the New York Times.

 

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