Americanswers! Project 2025 and Biden’s mental capacity
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Smith is reunited with the Zurch! She’s back from her holiday, and returns to a very full inbox of Ameriquestions to answer.
They include queries on whether the U.S. would ever elect a President who isn’t a Christian, and why politicians “approve this message” at their end of their campaign adverts?
And we speak to Americaster Joanna, who wants to know whether Americans harbour desires for their own monarchy.
HOSTS:
- Sarah Smith, North America editor - Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray with Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's Anthony in the BBC Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:08.0 | and this is AmeriCast, AmeriCansers, and I am joined today by Sarah Smith who returns to us from Holiday. |
| 0:14.0 | Sarah, nothing really happened while you were gone, so I hope you enjoyed a relaxing time off. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, exactly. No reason to be concerned at all. |
| 0:21.0 | I did notice that there had been a verdict in the |
| 0:23.5 | Donald Trump trial and so in order to make sure I don't miss any more court |
| 0:28.3 | verdicts I have come up to Wilmington Delaware and I'm here because this is where the Hunter-Biden trial is |
| 0:34.6 | taking place and there could be a verdict in that this week, possibly even as |
| 0:39.1 | early as today. So I'm here until we find out what's happening to Hunter Biden. |
| 0:43.0 | Boy, this is moving a lot quicker than that Donald Trump trial. |
| 0:45.6 | I mean, the case just began, the trial just began last week and here we are, the defense is finishing |
| 0:50.0 | up their presentation. |
| 0:52.0 | We had testimony from Hunter Biden's daughter on Friday. |
| 0:55.6 | Are we going to hear from Hunter himself? I know there's been mixed signals about |
| 0:58.9 | whether the defendant's going to take the stand and the risks that that presents. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, at the end of last week there were some people saying that he was upset by exactly |
| 1:07.9 | how tough the prosecutors had been with his daughter, Naomi, when she was on the stand, and that he wanted to redress some of that by |
| 1:14.4 | giving evidence himself but it seems his mind has been changed over the |
| 1:18.1 | weekend we've got other questions to address so and today as you know it this this new format our producers have devised for us |
| 1:25.6 | where we don't get to see the questions in advance so it's time for both you and I |
| 1:30.0 | to turn over our scripts and see what it is we have to get to today. |
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