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Americast

Kamala Harris makes history

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After months of speculation, Joe Biden has chosen California Senator Kamala Harris as his pick for VP. The Americast team assembles for an emergency episode, and Mayor of San Francisco and friend of Harris, London Breed, tells us why she thinks Biden made the right pick.

Studio director: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble and Morgan Gisholt Minard Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.8

It's quarter to six here in Washington, DC.

0:07.8

In the last hour and a half, Joe Biden has announced his pick for Vice President, and

0:13.0

it is History Making.

0:14.9

Kamala Harris, African American, her father Jamaican, her mother Indian, has been chosen

0:20.8

to be the Vice Presidential pick for Joe Biden in November's fourth coming election.

0:27.4

We're having to do an emergency America's and if it's an emergency, it only means one

0:33.3

thing, cue the claxon.

0:34.4

Music Radio Podcasts

0:41.1

America's from BBC News.

0:43.2

I am your President of law and order.

0:46.0

The US has now surpassed four million cases of coronavirus.

0:49.6

The country is crying out for leadership, person, woman, man, camera TV.

0:55.1

Four kids are just as bright and just as tall as white kids.

0:58.0

Where are you from?

0:59.0

BBC.

1:00.0

There's another beauty.

1:02.0

It's Anthony here in Arlington, Virginia.

1:06.9

And it's John here in Washington in the BBC Bureau.

1:11.1

We were expecting news.

1:13.1

We didn't know when it was going to come, but it was almost certainly going to be this

1:16.9

week.

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