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This week to cover the results of the American presidential election, a result that came much quicker than lots of people were expecting.

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So I'm in Lafayette Square, which is on the northern side of the White House.

It's pretty quiet today, a few tourists, quite a lot of office workers, people with

landyards doing official jobs, as basically life just carries on despite the momentous events

of Tuesday night.

What always gets me about standing here is you look around and on the roofs of all

the tallest

buildings at this time of the year they're all turned into pop-up TV studios because this is where

the journalists can get that classic shot of the White House behind them over their shoulders so they

can say in this building behind me in the race to get to the building behind me and they've been

very busy the last last 48 hours covering this incredibly, incredibly

momentous election result. Also, that beeping you can hear and that sawing you can hear is just to my

right in the cordoned off area, a load of workies are building the viewing platform for the inauguration.

That is going to happen on the 20th of January

and that will see Donald Trump becoming the 47th president, having already been the 45th president.

So lots to discuss about what else we've learned about why the result is the way it is.

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