Planet America - Season 12

First aired: 8/4/2023 27 episodes

The race to the 2024 Presidential Election is on. Around a dozen Republican candidates are taking on frontrunner Donald Trump, while Joe Biden is running for re-election. Chas and John guide you through every step of the way.

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Episodes

1. Fireside Chat (4/8/2023)

Aired: 8/4/2023

Is 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.

2. Fireside Chat (11/8/2023)

Aired: 8/11/2023

America'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.

3. Fireside Chat (18/8/2023)

Aired: 8/18/2023

Is 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.

4. Fireside Chat (25/8/2023)

Aired: 8/25/2023

Stumped 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.

5. Fireside Chat (1/9/2023)

Aired: 9/1/2023

Could 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?

6. Fireside Chat (8/9/2023)

Aired: 9/8/2023

'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?

7. Fireside Chat (15/9/2023)

Aired: 9/15/2023

Payback 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.

8. Fireside Chat (22/9/2023)

Aired: 9/22/2023

Why 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.

9. Fireside Chat (29/9/2023)

Aired: 9/29/2023

Trump 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.

10. Fireside Chat (13/10/2023)

Aired: 10/13/2023

Israel-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?

11. Fireside Chat (20/10/2023)

Aired: 10/20/2023

President 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.

12. Wednesday 25/10/2023

Aired: 11/10/2023

Chaos 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?

13. Fireside Chat (27/10/2023)

Aired: 10/27/2023

An 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?

14. Wednesday 1/11/2023

Aired: 11/1/2023

Cornel 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.

15. Fireside Chat (3/11/2023)

Aired: 11/3/2023

Just 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.

16. Wednesday 8/11/2023

Aired: 11/8/2023

Trump 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.

17. Fireside Chat (10/11/2023)

Aired: 11/10/2023

Republican 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.

18. Wednesday 15/11/2023

Aired: 11/15/2023

Tensions 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.

19. Fireside Chat (17/11/2023)

Aired: 11/17/2023

What'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.

20. Wednesday 22/11/2023

Aired: 11/22/2023

On 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.

21. Fireside Chat (24/11/2023)

Aired: 11/24/2023

Was 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.

22. Wednesday 29/11/2023

Aired: 11/29/2023

Gaza's fragile truce, how Nikki Haley got Don worried and why Fox News invented a terrorist attack.

23. Fireside Chat (1/12/2023)

Aired: 12/1/2023

Death 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.

24. Wednesday 6/12/2023

Aired: 12/6/2023

Chas 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.

25. Fireside Chat (8/12/2023)

Aired: 12/8/2023

Swings 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.

26. Wednesday 13/12/2023

Aired: 12/13/2023

Ukrainian 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.

27. Fireside Chat (15/12/2023)

Aired: 12/15/2023

Chas, 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.