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Matt Frei

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Now Channel 4 Presenter and Europe Editor. Author of Italy the Unfinished Revolution and Only in America. Still husband of 1 and father of 4.

Washington, DC
Joined November 2009
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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“This isn't just a guy who's a little out of control, this is a direct rise of an authoritarian regime.” Donald Trump’s erosion of democracy in America “must be resisted”, The Atlantic’s George Packer tells @AnushkaAsthana and @mattfrei
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@mark_d_wallace
Mark Wallace
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.@UANI unveiled a Shahed drone in the UK parliament yesterday—the first public display of the Iranian weapon system in Europe. Iranian Shahed-136 drones are fired by Russia against Ukraine in their thousands—and just recently 21 raged on Poland. My comments this week to
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@davidyelland
David Yelland
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This post by Tom Fletcher is extraordinary. There is nothing there. It has all gone.
@UNReliefChief
Tom Fletcher
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Driving on the road from Gaza City to Khan Younis yesterday.
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@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
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No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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Israeli forces are said to have dropped more explosives on Gaza than fell on London, Dresden and Hamburg combined in the Second World War. The level of destruction is hard to fathom as is the humanitarian suffering. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent @SecKermani looks at the
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Alex Crawford
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The pix shared by @Gerashchenko_en show damage in Kyiv today caused by a devastating Russian attack involv nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles across 7 Ukrainian regions. The attack lasted 12 hrs and killed at least four people, injuring about 70 others
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@RTS_media
Royal Television Society
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With the world clashing over competing narratives, who gets to tell the story? Channel 4 News Presenter and Europe Editor @mattfrei will offer his thoughts in this year's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 22 October. Book now:
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The event will take place on Wednesday 22 October at The University of Westminster, W1W 7BY.
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@TurnbullMalcolm
Malcolm Turnbull
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Discussing @realDonaldTrump speech at the UN with @Channel4News @mattfrei and @AnushkaAsthana on their new Trumpworld podcast
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@DaniIsdale
Dani Isdale
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Big week at UNGA - in NYC with @mattfrei @AnushkaAsthana for plenty of C4 News in all its forms - including the TrumpWorld podcast. Latest ep here https://t.co/zcCCgNW9GG
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@PGMcNamara
Paul McNamara
1 month
This is quite the tide-change in messaging… #Ukraine
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@ABC
ABC News
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The DOJ shut down an investigation involving President Trump's "border czar," Tom Homan, in which he had been recorded allegedly accepting cash from FBI agents posing as business executives, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
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The Justice Department said there was "no credible evidence" of criminal wrongdoing by Homan.
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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'The minute you have the stench of a loser... Trump will quickly throw you away.' @chucktodd speaks with @AnushkaAsthana and @mattfrei about how the Trump-Starmer relationship could drastically change if Trump sees Starmer's recent political troubles as a sign of weakness.
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ABC News
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Eyewitness video captures people fleeing in terror as a Russian drone strike hits a building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The attack set the building ablaze and injuring four people, mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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Watch the full episode of TrumpWorld here, and listen on all podcast apps: https://t.co/CggB5GUtnb
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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"Trump is enamoured with the idea of being a monarch himself." Renowned journalist @chucktodd talks to @AnushkaAsthana and @mattfrei about what Trump's state visit to the UK this week really means.
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@MrBrendanCox
Brendan Cox
2 months
This is Elon Musk inciting violence. He’s not hiding it. It’s not subtle. It’s plain and simple incitement.
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@JamesMelville
James Melville 🚜
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“To us, he’s just Peter.” ~ Keir Starmer And oh how they laughed. To the rest of us, he’s just someone who should never have been appointed as the UK ambassador to the U.S.
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@mattfrei
Matt Frei
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I HATE VIRGIN MEDIA! There. I have said it. The broadband keeps failing. It’s easier to get the Pope on the phone. They are utterly useless. Time to change. Adieu! Am I alone?
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@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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'The theme of the summer, for me, has been Trump taken as a fool by these powerful men.' On Channel 4 News' brand new podcast, TrumpWorld, @AnushkaAsthana and @mattfrei discuss Russia's reported drone incursion into Poland and how President Trump is likely to respond
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