Summary
Joe sets his sights on Nato but is being criticised at home.
The Americast team reconvene early from their holidays to react to Joe Biden’s brief visit to the UK. Justin is joined by Katty Kay and Anthony is pulled out of bed in Washington DC at 4:30am to join the new Americast Breakfast Club.
BBC political editor Chris Mason is on hand too.
And there’s one more question to answer: is the Commander in Chief actually a nice guy? He’s faced criticism for not publicly acknowledging his granddaughter. Is his family man image at risk?
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Katty Kay, USA special correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUESTS: • Chris Mason, political editor
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | A-Anthony, Anthony, are you there? |
| 0:09.4 | Anthony, would you wake up? Hello? |
| 0:11.9 | Good morning, Justin, that alarm is very triggering. |
| 0:15.0 | It is not even light here in Washington DC, |
| 0:18.1 | it is still the middle of the night. |
| 0:19.7 | Okay, we're not making this up, because it is. |
| 0:21.7 | What is it? Four Thursday or so, Washington DC time, |
| 0:24.7 | because this is the espresso version. |
| 0:26.8 | Not a full-fat America's this week, |
| 0:29.4 | but an espresso version, because Joe Biden is in the UK, |
| 0:34.1 | or was in the UK very briefly, |
| 0:36.1 | and we have this email from Americaster Kit Thompson, |
| 0:39.4 | who says, President Biden is visiting the UK |
| 0:42.0 | for a meeting for the British Prime Minister |
| 0:43.9 | and King this week, they're talking about Ukraine |
| 0:46.1 | and climate change. |
| 0:47.4 | This, he says, is one of those weeks |
| 0:50.4 | when we need to try to make sense of disparate strands |
| 0:53.6 | of the news. |
| 0:55.0 | So set the scene, Anthony, |
| 0:57.0 | will not too much of the scene possibly, |
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