Burning down the House? Trump loyalists provoke ouster of Speaker McCarthy

The overwhelming majority opted for compromise in last weekend’s budget deal, but already Donald Trump is blowing away the rest of the field in polls for his party's nomination next year – Trump, who regularly blasts institutions as well as judges presiding over his own trials. How vulnerable are those US institutions?

And what is the contingency plan for the rest of the world, if the world’s most powerful nation can no longer function domestically? It's not currently the case, but what happens next?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Imen Melllaz.

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