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Christopher Ruddy

HARDtalk speaks to Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media - an influential forum for conservative opinion. Have the Republicans picked a fight they could never win?

America's dysfunctional politics has brought the US government perilously close to running out of money. To outsiders it has looked like an incomprehensible game of brinkmanship which threatens the world economy, but die-hard tea party Republicans have seen it as an opportunity to make a stand against 'big' government. HARDtalk speaks to Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media - an influential forum for conservative opinion. Have the Republicans picked a fight they could never win?

30 minutes

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Wed 16 Oct 201320:30GMT
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Credits

PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestChristopher Ruddy

Broadcasts

  • Wed 16 Oct 201303:30GMT
    BBC News except UK
  • Wed 16 Oct 201308:30GMT
    BBC News except UK
  • Wed 16 Oct 201314:30GMT
    BBC News except UK
  • Wed 16 Oct 201320:30GMT
    BBC News except UK