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journalism. Hello and happy Monday evening. Happy Monday evening. We're going to talk about Trump,

aren't we? Yes. Well, it was interesting because I was thinking this morning about how we've had

sort of 18 months of agonizing about the Iowa

caucus and you know this county in Florida and yeah you know all these minutiae and you know it must

it occurs me that it must sometimes seem to you know normal people slightly demented.

But actually the reason it is so, has been so important

and is now even more important is that the result of that very strange,

very long, circuitous contest is now that Donald Trump is going to be

very shortly the most powerful man in the world again.

And so suddenly with a rush, all sorts of things are happening.

Yeah.

It's like the Hemingway line, isn't it, about bankruptcy?

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