Simon Marks Reporting
Simon Marks Reporting brings ongoing news reports from Washington and beyond by Emmy award-winning journalist Simon Marks. His coverage airs on TV and radio networks worldwide and is also released through major podcast services. Simon is the President and Chief Correspondent of Feature Story News, offering sharp political reporting and analysis.
Episodes
October 14, 2026 - New White House press secretary has catastrophic debut at the podium
Simon's live report for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
October 10, 2026 - Trump and Vance differ over prospect of America's first public execution in 90 years
Simon's live update for Matthew Wright's Saturday morning breakfast programme on the UK's LBC.
October 9, 2026 - "American Week": Trump again threatens the midterms, and Hegseth orders a public execution
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme with Tom Swarbrick. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards.This week:-- Trump is urged to invoke the Insurrection Act if the Democrats win the midterms-- Hegseth orders a public, firing squad military execution-- South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize
October 5, 2026 - US scrambles B1 bombers out of RAF Fairford
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
October 3, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump sought advice from AI engine Grok over Venezuela invasion
Simon's live chat with Matt Frei on the UK's LBC.
October 1, 2026 - Condemned murderer survives execution in Tennessee in dramatic, fresh blow to death penalty
Simon's live update for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika" TV with Xoli Mngambi anchoring.
October 2, 2026 - "American Week": Trump belatedly hits the campaign trail, and Tennessee brutally botches an execution
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live at 5:50 every Friday, or find it here on demand afterwards. And also at LBC's Official YouTube page, where you can watch in full HD.This week: Trump finally gets around to campaigning in the midterm elections, and Tennessee butchers a death row inmate who survives h
September 25, 2026 - "American Week": Trump threatens to annihalate Iran, dooms Republicans in midterms, then shows Xi his White House renovations
Simon's weekly chronicle of increasingly unstable events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.This week:-- Trump threatens war crimes in his UN General Assembly speech;-- Republicans fear a midterm drubbing in 38 days' time;-- President Xi Jinping trapises to Washington, and Trump shows him all his White House renovations.
September 24, 2026 - Iran accuses Trump of terrorism, as beleaguered Republicans urge him to end war
Simon's live report for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 23, 2026 - Trump threatens war crimes on Iran, and renames Artificial Intelligence
Simon's live update on President Trump's day at the United Nations General Assembly, including his first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham. With James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.
September 23, 2026 - Burnham and Trump's first meeting sparks review of Chagos handover
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 22, 2026 - Trump's "ban on the free press" sparks fury and a legal backlash
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 4, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's cunning Post Office plan to rig the midterm elections
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.This week: Trump's plan, in plain sight, to weaponise the US Postal Service in an effort to rig the outcome of November's mid-term elections.
September 4, 2026 - Trump may be going "wobbly" over the Falklands
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
August 28. 2026 - "American Week": CIA Director makes mystery trip to Moscow, and remembering Dolly Parton
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
August 21, 2026 - "American Week": America's National Debt tops $40 trillion portending major problems ahead
August 12, 2026 - Trump confirms Air Force One deception in effort to protect him from Iranian death threats
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC
August 7, 2026 - "American Week": Trump can no longer stipulate to reality
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm, or find it on catchup here afterwards.This week:-- Trump refuses to accept the reality of his own errors in the Reflecting Pool renovation scandal-- Abdul El-Sayed becomes the new darling of the progressive left after winning the Michigan Demcoratic primary
August 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Democratic Socialists eat into Trump's working class support
Simon's live update for Vanessa Feltz's Saturday programme on the UK's LBC.
July 31, 2026 - "American Week": Trump craters in the polls, while the Democrats tear themselves apart
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on LBC.This week:--Trump's approval ratings crater to near-fatal levels-- The Democrats' internecine battle intensifies-- Dr Fauci pleads the Fifth-- Fresh evidence emerges of the scale of Trump's griftListen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
July 28, 2026 - Zelensky and Netanyahu in Washington for separate meetings with Trump
Simon's live update for LBC with Aasmah Mir presenting.
July 25, 2026 - Washington's most toe-curling event of the year
Simon's weekly roundup of events in the United States for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on LBC.
July 24, 2026 - "American Week": Trump welcomes Burnham to No. 10 with new tariffs
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday night drivetime programme on LBC. This week:-- Trump hits 80 countries with new tariffs to replace the ones the Supreme Court outlawed;-- Trump flirts with the commission of war crimes in Iran;-- no one can find $13 billion of US oil revenues from Venezuela.
July 20, 2026 - Whither Britain as Burnham comes to power?
Simon's live update from London for Newzroom Afrika, South Africa's leading TV news channel.
July 17, 2026 - "American Week": Trump advances his plans to undermine midterm elections
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme...this week presented by Simon.
July 13, 2026 - Remembering Lindsey Graham, 1955 - 2026
Simon's thoughts on the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. For LBC.
July 10, 2026 - "American Week": Trump tries to rig the World Cup
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC, this week via Clive Bull's programme. Listen every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 9, 2026 - US strikes 90 targets across Iran after Trump calls regime "scum"
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
July 4, 2026 - On America's 250th birthday, Trump warns communism is on the march
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
July 3, 2026 - "American Week": America in muted mood on its 250th birthday eve
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the 250-year-old United States for Tom Swarbrick's drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump suffers big Supreme Court loss over birthright citizenship
Simon's live update with Lewis Goodall on LBC.
June 26, 2026 - "American Week": Trump takes a first crack at Burnham, while Democratic Socialists challenge their party's elite
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the USA for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme, this week presented by Ben Kentish. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.This week:--Trump gives Burnham a kicking while also giving Starmer a kicking;--NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte prostrates himself before Trump again;--left-wing Democrats romp to victory in primary
June 20, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump's deal with Iran under strain
Simon's live roundup of events in the United States for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
June 19, 2026 - "American Week": Trump capitulates to Iran
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday night drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. This week: Trump capitulates to Iran, and offers them the possibility of an eventual $300 billion payday.
June 13, 2026 - "American Week": Trump "loves the inflation", and is "thunderously booed" in New York
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards.
June 11, 2026 - Bill Gates tells Congress that Epstein tried to blackmail him
Simon's live update for The Claire Byrne Show on Ireland's Newstalk.
June 11, 2026 - US fires 49 Tomahawk missiles at Iran, saying it will "negotiate with bombs"
Simon's live update for Monocle Radio's "The Globalist", with Emma Nelson presenting.
June 10, 2026 - Trump launches military reprisals against Iran, risking ceasefire talks
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari At Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
May 7, 2026 - US Roundup: Iran launches attacks on Israel on 100th day of conflict
Simon's live update for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
June 5, 2026 - "American Week": Trump "bored" by Iran negotiations while his family coins it
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States (and this week, also in Albania) for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.This week:--Trump says Iran peace talks have "bored" him;--Rubio claims the war is over when it isn't;--Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner acquire an Albanian island, and spark
June 3, 2026 - Meltdown at CBS News amid fresh allegations of pro-Trump interference
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC. Today the roundup leads with the firing of Scott Pelley, veteran CBS News anchor and reporter, after he accused the pro-Trump management of seeking to "murder" the news magazine 60 Minutes. CBS News remains the BBC's official US news partner.
June 2, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump in retreat, except in reported conversation with Netanyahu
Simon's latest update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 29, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's stability questioned over Iran talks, and Jill Biden rakes over old coals
Simon's weekly chronicle of events from a deeply unserious United States. Listen live every week on Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on LBC at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.This week: - Trump's mad move in the Middle East;- the scrapping of US humanitarian aid fuels the spread of Ebola;- Jill Biden spins a yarn in her new memoir.
May 24, 2026 - Republican Senators fear Trump's Iran plan amounts to "surrender"
Simon's live update for Henry Riley's Sunday afternoon programme on the UK's LBC.
May 23, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Suspect in White House shooting killed by Secret Service
Simon's live update for Clive Bull's overnight programme on the UK's LBC.
May 23, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: White House under security lockdown after reports of gunfire
Simon's live breaking news report for Nick Abbot's programme on LBC.
May 22, 2026 - "American Week": Republicans revolt over Trump's "slush fund"
Simon's weekly chronicle of the American story for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. This week: -- Trump sets up a slush fund for his mates after a quid-pro-quo with his own Justice Department.-- That ain't no ballroom. It's a Bond villain's bunker.-- Remembering Barney Frank
May 20, 2026 - US indicts Raul Castro, brother of Fidel, on murder charges
Simon's live update for CNA, the pan-Asian English language TV news channel based in Singapore. With Yasmine Yonkers and Arnold Gay anchoring.
May 20, 2026 - Trump successfully purges "traitors" in Republican primaries, and reveals his "ballroom" is really a bunker
Simon's live update James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 19, 2026 - Trump reveals his ballroom will in fact be an impenetrable military bunker
Simon's live update for "Tonight with Andrew Marr" on the UK's LBC.
May 19, 2026 - Trump plans $1.776 billion fund to funnel taxpayer money to his mates over "lawfare" claims
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on LBC. Today:-- Trump TACOs over Iran...again-- Trump's audacious plan to funnel taxpayer cash to his mates-- And it's a big night in Kentucky Republican politics.
May 18, 2026 - 5 dead, including two teenage suspects, after attack on San Diego Islamic Centre
Simon's live update for Ben Kentish's late night programme on the UK's LBC.
May 18, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Shooting at Islamic Centre of San Diego
Simon's live update for the UK's rolling news station, LBC News, with James Hanson presenting.
May 16, 2026 - Trump returns from Beijing, indicating possible shift in US support for Taiwan
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 15, 2026 - "American Week": Trump goes to China as Xi draws a Taiwanese line in the sand
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on catch-up afterwards.This week: Trump goes to China in search of vast trade deals, but brings very little back after getting a flea in his ear over Taiwan.
May 13, 2026 - Trump arrives in China for crucial Beijing summit with Xi
Simon's live update for "Tonight with Andrew Marr" on the UK's LBC.
May 10, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump rejects Iranian response to peace proposals as "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE"
Simon's live update for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme. Listen live every week at 0045am or find it here on demand afterwards.
May 9, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump congratulates Swinney on re-election, but so far not a word about Starmer or Farage
Simon's live update from Washington for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC. Today: US reaction to Britain's local, Scottish and Welsh elections. Plus the latest on Iran, the President's upcoming trip to China, and is Marco Rubio the man to watch for 2028?
May 7, 2026 - Cometh the hour, cometh the Rubio?
Simon's live update for LBC's "Tonight with Andrew Marr" on the sudden interest in Marco Rubio as a possible Trump successor.
May 6, 2026 - Trump suggests agreement is nearing with Iran, as possible "one-pager" mooted to resolve war
Simon's live update for Tom Swarbrick's drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
May 5, 2026 - Trump insists Iran ceasefire is holding, but events in the Strait of Hormuz suggest it is not
Simon's live update for "Tonight with Andrew Marr" on the UK's LBC.
May 5, 2026 - Trump's gambit over Hormuz backfires, and he sparks a trade setback with the UK
Simon's latest roundup with James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.
May 4, 2026 - US denies Iran struck an American warship as Trump's "Project Freedom" gets underway
Simon's live chat with Lewis Goodall on the UK's LBC.
May 3, 2026 - US Roundup: Rudy Giuliani in critical condition in hospital
Simon's live roundup for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme. Listen live every week at 0045 UK time, or find it here on-demand afterwards.
May 2, 2026 - U.S. Roundup: Trump orders drawdown of US troops to punish Chancellor Merz for telling the truth about Iran
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
May 1, 2026 - "American Week": Important though it was, the State Visit was not America's most consequential event this week
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States, for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.This week, the King and Queen beguile Americans and deliver a pointed message in the direction of Donald Trump. And the Supreme Court sets the stage for electoral chaos in America later this year.
April 28, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: New UK Ambassador to US says America's "special relationship" is with Israel, not the UK
Simon's live breaking news update on an extraordinary scoop about new UK Ambassador Sir Christian Turner, published by the Financial Times just one hour before King Charles was due at the White House for the official ceremony marking the start of his State Visit to the United States.
April 28, 2026 - State Visit begins, as the King prepares to address Congress
Simon's live update with James Max on LBC.
April 28, 2026 - King and Queen arrive in Washington, but can they save the UK-US relationship?
Simon's report on the four day State Visit that got underway on Monday, and the prospects for a "win", whatever that looks like. For Monocle Radio's "The Globalist" presented by Georgina Godwin.
April 27, 2026 - King and Queen arrive in US today as Trump asserts "I'm not a rapist"
Simon's live update from Washington after a disquieting weekend. With James O'Brien on LBC.
April 26, 2026 - "I'm not a rapist", Trump tells CBS 60 Minutes in response to WHCD suspect's 'manifesto'
Simon's live update for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme on LBC. Tonight, a stunning exchange between President Trump and one of America's top news anchors in the aftermath of the attempt to attack White House Correspondents Dinner at the Hilton in Washington.
April 26, 2026 - Authorities say Hilton attack suspect was "likely" trying to kill Trump and other U.S. officials
Simon's live update from Washington for LBC with Ranvir Singh presenting.
April 26, 2026 - Investigation unearths "manifesto" by Hilton attack suspect , but questions mount about security procedures
Simon's live update on the investigation into Saturday night's attempted attack on the "Hinckley Hilton" as President Trump was in the ballroom for the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. With Henry Riley on the UK's LBC.
April 25, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Shots fired at White House Correspondents Dinner - Part Three
Simon's continuing live coverage of events in Washington DC, with instant analysis of President Trump's comments in the White House briefing room following his return from the Hilton hotel.
April 25, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Shots fired at White House Correspondents Dinner - Part Two
More of Simon's rolling news coverage for LBC and LBC News with Clive Bull presenting, as the White House Correspondents' Dinner was scrubbed following an attempted attack on Trump administration officials at the Hilton hotel.
April 25, 2026 - AS IT BROKE: Shots fired at White House Correspondents Dinner - Part One
Simon's rolling live coverage on LBC of the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner at the Hilton hotel in the centre of the city. With Clive Bull presenting in London.
April 25, 2026 - King and Queen's State Visit to US to begin Monday, but what does a 'win' look like?
Simon's preview of the State Visit for Vanessa Feltz's Saturday afternoon programme on LBC.
April 25, 2026 - Trump to attend first White House Correspondents' Dinner, after swelling briefing room with propagandists
Simon's preview of tonight's ghastly event in Washington, at which journalists who claim to be responsible members of the Fourth Estate will break bread and flatter the politicians they cover. With David Harper on the UK's rolling news station LBC News.
April 25, 2026 - As Americans worry about petrol prices, Trump's obsession with memorials to himself goes into overdrive
Simon's live roundup for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on LBC.
April 24, 2026 - "American Week": U.S. threatens to review Falkland Islands' British sovereignty, as King and Queen pack bags for Washington
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. This week:-- the Pentagon threatens the Falklands ahead of the Royal visit-- Trump makes more contradictory claims about Iran-- FBI Director Kash Patel is accused of dereliction of duty-- Why a Congressional race in New York is turning into a massive headache for the big tech i
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