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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 2013

18 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1A special edition of Planet America with John Barron and Chas Licciardello. They discuss US President Barack Obama's inauguration with Brendan O'Connor and Sarah James.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Planet America is back for 2013. On tonight's episode, Republican Tom Tancredo says neither party wants to fix immigration, and Nate Silver on polls and poker.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3In this episode, gun violence claims the life of America's most famous sniper and the US drone program faces renewed scrutiny.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4In this episode, former presidential speechwriter James Fallows on the State of the Union and Barack Obama's second term agenda.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5On this week's episode of Planet America, an anti-gun lawyer who's also anti-gun control laws, and the inability of the states to reach a deal on deficit reduction.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6This week, Barack Obama's internet advertising guru Andrew Bleeker on how the web helped win the White House and Chas and John attempt to explain the sequester using a plate of french fries.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7In this episode, calls for a halt to drilling for new gas wells in the US as new research casts doubt over its environmental benefits, and Senator Rand Paul filibusters the confirmation of John Brennan as the next head of the CIA.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8On this episode of Planet America, we preview Barack Obama’s first trip to Israel as US president and ten years on from the Iraq War.
  • Episode 9
    E9
    Episode 9The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and the ABC's John Barron set out to discover the real America – its politics and its people – with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride!
  • Episode 10
    E10
    Episode 10In this episode of Planet America, we take a look at the gay marriage case before the US Supreme Court, and discuss religion in America ahead of Easter.
  • Episode 11
    E11
    Episode 11On Planet America, what the 2012 presidential campaign revealed about the state of the news media and the BBC's Nick Bryant talks immigration reform.
  • Episode 12
    E12
    Episode 12On this episode of Planet America, Chas and John talk to a former FBI agent who went undercover in American Neo-Nazi gangs and they take a look at the limits on presidential power.
  • Episode 13
    E13
    Episode 13On Planet America, Chas and John speak to the former presidential counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clarke.
  • Episode 14
    E14
    Episode 14On this episode of Planet America, the lessons learnt from the Boston bombings and the view from America’s police about gun laws.
  • Episode 15
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    Episode 15On this episode of Planet America, John Barron is joined by political scientist and expert number cruncher Simon Jackman and we meet the Las Vegas man heading the push to have a mountain named after Ronald Reagan.
  • Episode 16
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    Episode 16A look at the influence of lobbyists over American politics; from healthcare to gun control, who really pulls the strings?
  • Episode 17
    E17
    Episode 17On this episode of Planet America, Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on whether Hillary is running in 2016 and former Labor Senator Stephen Loosley joins John and Chas at the roundish table.
  • Episode 18
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    Episode 18On this episode of Planet America, Professor Ed Blakely on the recovery effort following the Oklahoma tornado and Barack Obama’s Chief Digital Strategist Joe Rospars.

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