Let Bidens Be Bidens
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hunter Biden will plead guilty to tax and gun offences to avoid prison. The Americast team looks at whether the sins of his son could knock Joe Biden’s re-election hopes.
Talking of being in trouble with the law, has Donald Trump implicated himself in a recent interview with Fox News?
And it’s a tale of two Anthonys, as our very own host travels with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on a historic trip to China and then the UK, and reports back on how he was received by President Xi.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Alix Pickles, Rufus Gray and Natasha Fernandes. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans and the sound designer was David Crackles. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Sarah, hello. We've got a packed episode as ever. |
| 0:07.2 | We've got Anthony coming up later on, |
| 0:08.8 | who's in an interesting place, or several interesting places, |
| 0:11.6 | on what it says here are pool duties, |
| 0:13.3 | but that doesn't involve rescuing people from swimming pools. |
| 0:15.7 | It's something even more glamorous than that. |
| 0:18.1 | Well, it's glamorous. I find it a little bit frightening. |
| 0:20.0 | What pool duty means is that you follow around the president |
| 0:23.2 | or Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, |
| 0:25.2 | in the case of what Anthony's doing at the moment. |
| 0:27.6 | And you have to record every single word that they say. |
| 0:30.9 | So you've got a huge big long stick with a microphone on the end of it, |
| 0:33.8 | and a little recorder about the size of a mobile phone. |
| 0:36.9 | And I mean, it's not that hard for people who are good at it |
| 0:39.2 | and experience that. |
| 0:40.2 | For people like me who are not very good with technology, |
| 0:42.8 | it's terrifying. |
| 0:43.6 | What it does mean, despite the fear of missing the recording, |
| 0:46.4 | is that you're right inside the travel bubble, |
| 0:49.2 | which means all the aids and officials are there. |
| 0:51.4 | You can grab them for a quiet private word. |
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