The Monocle Daily

Trump’s cabinet takes shape and Brazil’s former president is charged with plotting a coup

Simon Marks joins with the latest from Washington as president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet begins to take shape. Also in the programme: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco on the impact of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, being charged with plotting a coup d’etat. Then: we flick through the latest issue of ‘Monocle: The Entrepreneurs’ with Tomos Lewis and speak to the American political scientist, Oriana Skylar Mastro, about her new book ‘Upstart: How China Became a Great Power’.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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