BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello, Laura Coonspoke. I didn't see you last week. You were away. I was away, and you were away. We were both away. Lucky us. But lucky listener, lucky newscaster, they got better people. I'm sure they did. So sorry if you're disappointed that we're back, but here we are. Here we go. Mind you, you're on form with a scoop. Yes, I'll be talking to Kamala Harris. Fab. I know. That was very exciting because, well, it's not that common that you, you know, get to have a just casually have a conversation with someone who came quite close to becoming the president of the United States of America.

So, yes, it was really intriguing to speak to her.

Really, really interesting.

And it's a busy news weekend as well.

It is.

With some you couldn't possibly make it up stories,

which there have been plenty of already this week.

But I think we have hit peak 2025 and peak phase two for Kyrs-Sarmmer's government, who seemed to have managed to lose a sex offender who ought not to have been allowed to walk off on the

House Street, who instead was meant to be being deported. So we're very serious, but also a really

kind of what story that the government is struggling to handle at the moment. Just as they have picked the non-in-house deputy leadership candidate.

Yes, described to me as another example of Keir Stammer's reverse my distouch.

Lucy Powell has become the deputy leader of the Labour Party.

So the women who Keir Stammer deemed wasn't good enough to be in the cabinet a few short

weeks ago is now his number two. That's not awkward, is it? Well, I think the newscast finished for today. Thank goodness for that. Chris Mason will be coming in on Saturday's newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Laura in the studio. It's Patty in the studio.

Hello.

And as you said, Chris will be here shortly. And so if he walks in during our conversation, he's not being rude. He's just a man doing the news. So a man in a hurry. So let's get to the scoop with the US presidential candidate, as was Carmelha Harris. And intriguingly, somebody who quite clearly, from my take, wants to be again a presidential

candidate.

Really?

I very much think so.

So you and I have both interviewed lots of politicians over the years.

And they're sometimes a bit coy, aren't they, when you ask them a big question, something

like, are you going to try and become the president again after you lost very, in a very bruising way to Donald Trump last year? And she's done a few

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