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covering the biggest stories coming out of Holyroots and Westminster

and today from Washington, D.C.

It's about 15 minutes past two.

On Friday the 9th of October, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in the Glasgow Newsroom.

And Phil is here also?

I'm not in the Glasgow Newsroom.

I'm in my flat in Edinburgh underneath a blanket.

And we're also joined today by a very...

Like, for sound quality reasons. I want to stress, sound quality reasons I'm not in bed.

And we're joined today by a very special guest, Tamara Keith NPR White House correspondent, host of the NPR Politics Podcast.

Thank you so much for joining us.

So great to be with you. I am not under a blanket, but I am in my home in the one

carpeted room. And it's, as I said at the start of the podcast, there's quarter past two for us.

So that means it's quarter past nine in the morning for you. Yes, yes. So how are things going

this morning? How long have you been up for so far? It's not bad. It's really not bad. So far,

so good. Nothing crazy has happened yet.

Which is... But I say yet because it's only a matter of time.

Yeah, which is saying something, the past couple of weeks for you must have been so full on.

Yes. I mean, like, if you think about everything that's happened in the last three weeks,

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