Crimea river

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As the Ukraine crisis escalates, we hear why Kyiv is so important to Moscow. Retired Lt Col Alexander Vindman, who testified before Congress about the Trump-Ukraine scandal, explains why he thinks Biden has a much better understanding of Putin than Trump ever had. Also, the hot mic moment that caught Biden off guard, Anthony tries to take over the podcast with a filibuster, and we answer an A-level student’s question about Mike Pence and a steaming pile of horse poo. Americast is made by Estelle Doyle and Phil Marzouk. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	You know we love nothing more than a hot mic moment to this podcast and just to really
0:10.3	win because we've all made them, we've all done them.
0:14.1	A hot mic is where your sound was up and you didn't realise and you said something catastrophic
0:20.0	and it's kind of bad if you're a presenter but it's really, really bad if you're the
0:23.7	president of the United States.
0:25.3	Have a listen.
0:26.3	That's a great asset, more inflation.
0:31.3	What a stupid sound I'm going to say.
0:35.3	What a stupid sound of a bit.
0:36.9	I mean that is even worse than Prince Charles over Nicholas Wittschel when he said that
0:42.0	ghastly mad or whatever it was.
0:44.3	That is quite something.
0:45.5	Last week on the podcast we were discussing how there's been a shift in tone in Joe Biden.
0:52.0	Is the unity of a year ago, let's heal, let's come together, let's all love each other
0:58.1	and now calling a Fox News reporter a stupid son of a bitch.
1:03.9	And you might be saying well come on what did the reporter say and you know people could
1:07.5	be really annoying in those press conferences but this guy do you see his name is?
1:11.8	Was his first name?
1:12.8	Peter Doosie.
1:13.8	Peter Doosie.
1:14.8	A very blonde hair.
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