NEW - What’s On Your Mind, Mike Le Couteur: Strangers In DC Keep Apologizing For Their Own President

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Aug 12, 2026 · 8m

Mike Le Couteur expected the usual little brother treatment when he started asking ordinary Americans what they thought about the state of Canada US relations. What he got instead, on a hot day outside the US Capitol, was a lot more surprising.

He talks about the tourists, veterans, and passersby who told him, unprompted, that they did not understand why their own country was targeting one of its closest allies, and the couple from Pennsylvania who apologized for their president before he even finished introducing himself. He also gets into his reporting on the closed door trade talks between…