Americast: Mar-a-Legal Trouble
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump, some top secret documents and the FBI.
Welcome to episode one of the new-look Americast (we thought, as listeners of Ukrainecast, you might enjoy Americast).
Classified documents stored at former President's Florida home were likely concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation, says the US Department of Justice officials. Justin, Sarah and the Zurch chat to former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa, about how attempts to retrieve the documents went down and what could happen next.
And Marianna introduces our undercover voters…
If you like Americast, please subscribe to the podcast on BBC Sounds. Americast will be publishing every Wednesday.
Americast is made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Sam Bonham. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | As we mentioned earlier this week, our sister podcast, America's has relaunched. |
| 0:10.2 | With Justin Webb, Sarah Smith, Mary Anna Spring and Anthony Zurker, they'll be covering |
| 0:15.3 | American politics, news and cultural issues too. |
| 0:19.2 | The first episode was published on Wednesday, but we thought you might enjoy listening to |
| 0:22.6 | the whole thing. |
| 0:23.8 | So we've lent America's the Ukraine cast feed for one episode. |
| 0:28.3 | If you like it, do subscribe to America's on BBC Sounds, so you can hear it every week. |
| 0:34.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:39.4 | Hello, when I applied for a BBC job in the United States in the year 2000, I was told by |
| 0:44.0 | BBC bosses, you're really sure you want to go, it's boring, there's no news there, it's |
| 0:48.3 | all shark attacks and crazy preachers. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, it hasn't turned out quite like that. |
| 0:55.1 | Has it? |
| 0:56.1 | So it is well worth getting America's to going again and, well, all of us are here to |
| 1:02.2 | do it. |
| 1:03.2 | Mary Anna. |
| 1:04.2 | Hello. |
| 1:05.2 | Hello. |
| 1:06.2 | Sarah, back actually in the United States. |
| 1:07.6 | I am. |
| 1:08.6 | I took over as the BBC's North America editor back in. |
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