Americanswers: Should Biden ditch Kamala? Who pays Trump’s legal fees? And what’s your favourite Bidenism?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We answer the biggest questions in the race for the White House...
Americast is now publishing two episodes a week!
In the first Monday edition of Americast, we’re joined by Special Guest Hosts Miles Taylor, Trump staffer turned whistleblower, and Katie Hill, former Democratic Congresswoman.
They sit down with Sarah and Justin to go through some of the most commonly asked questions we get on Americast.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor
GUEST HOSTS: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security in Trump administration • Katie Hill, former Democratic congresswoman
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Claire Betzer and Natasha Mayo. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it fall, what sound is there? |
| 0:11.6 | That folks is the kind of question we will not be answering on |
| 0:15.2 | AmeriCast. We will keep our questions more practical, more focused, but equally |
| 0:20.7 | philosophical, possibly occasionally occasionally, Sarah, |
| 0:24.0 | because we need to serve a wide, wide audience |
| 0:28.0 | with a wide range of views and a wide range of interest. |
| 0:31.0 | And that's what we'll do. I was a bit worried there just |
| 0:33.4 | and where you were going with that metaphor. It was if we record a Monday |
| 0:36.9 | episode of America and nobody knows to download it, did it in fact ever happen? |
| 0:42.0 | Because this is a new thing for us. it, did it in fact, ever happen? |
| 0:43.0 | Because this is a new thing for us. |
| 0:45.0 | Mondays, we're going to be answering listeners questions, |
| 0:48.0 | all our wonderful Americasers who send us so many great messages |
| 0:52.0 | and really smart questions every week and we don't always |
| 0:54.4 | get a chance to include enough of them so given it such a huge year in American |
| 0:59.1 | politics that's why we're going to do an extra bonus episode every week on a Monday answering your |
| 1:03.7 | questions and if you have questions indeed if you want to make any comment at |
| 1:08.4 | all to us let me emphasize this is the moment to do it. The what's app is 44330 1239480. |
| 1:17.0 | AmeriCast at BBC.co. UK if you use email the hashtag Americaast. You can send us a voice note of course as well on |
| 1:25.2 | what's that we really like to hear people's actual voices you don't have to be the |
| 1:29.2 | voice of Donald Trump you can be the voice of anyone indeed you can be the voice of yourself. |
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