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Americast

Berning Down the House

Americast

BBC

News, Government, Politics

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Who is Bernie Sanders? Maitlis, Sopes and The Zurch are joined by Congressman Peter Welch and Lord Wood to discuss the Democrat frontrunner. Plus our first Americast quiz: Who said it, Bernie or Jeremy Corbyn?

Producers: Ione Wells, Cristina Criddle and Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

We're back in the America studio in Broadcasting House.

0:09.3

We've got those headphones on that make you feel

0:11.2

like you're flying a helicopter.

0:12.6

That's where we are.

0:13.6

And I'm sitting in Washington, DC,

0:15.2

in our studios here at the BBC offices,

0:18.1

except there is building work going on.

0:20.6

So you might hear the or drilling sound

0:22.6

and all that sort of stuff going on in the background.

0:26.5

And I'm in a diner in the tiny town

0:28.3

in the Klellenville, South Carolina,

0:30.0

where chicken biscuits, ritz, and she crab soup are on the menu.

0:34.3

We seem to have established something of a pattern.

0:36.4

When we go to Iowa, it all goes wrong in Iowa.

0:38.9

When we do a Bloomberg special,

0:42.0

he then collapses and dies at the first chance

0:45.2

of non-stage debate.

0:48.2

So today, I say with trepidation,

0:50.4

we are going to do the Bernie Sanders special.

0:53.1

Watch this space.

0:54.5

The America has a curse.

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