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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. I'm Dominic Green, Life and Arts Editor of Spectator USA, filling in for Freddie Gray.

And our guest today is Rob Crilly. He's the White House correspondent of the Washington Examiner.

I think White House correspondent means he would turn up in a white suit with a notebook.

But he has a notebook with him.

I'm sorry to disappoint. Yeah, I have my notebook, no white suit, rather boring blue suit, I'm

afraid.

It's a suit for radio.

Yeah.

Now, you join us at a time of extraordinary political ferment on both sides of the Atlantic.

You've been covering the British elections, which the polls will be opening tomorrow,

and I was quite

sure which way they're going. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's been an extraordinary week in the

US, and here I am, yeah, covering the British election for an American audience. And people,

you know, for the past year, actually, in the US, people have been asking me, what's going on

with Brexit, why isn't it getting done? And I've spent the past week here and I still haven't

got the faintest idea. And you're through the looking glass. So instead they're asking you,

what is going on? What is a visa warrant? Who is Robert Mueller? Why is impeachment? And how does it

happen? Yeah, we seem on both sides of the Atlantic, we seem to be bogged down in the small print. You know,

it's very complicated inside baseball sorts of questions. And, you know, often as a, as a correspondent,

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