Mar-a-Legal Trouble
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump, some top secret documents and the FBI.
Welcome to episode one of the new-look Americast!
Classified documents stored at former President's Florida home were likely concealed as part of an effort to obstruct an FBI investigation, says the US Department of Justice officials. Justin, Sarah and the Zurch chat to former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa, about how attempts to retrieve the documents went down and what could happen next.
And Marianna introduces our undercover voters…
Americast is made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Sam Bonham. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, when I applied for a BBC job in the United States in the year 2000, I was told |
| 0:09.1 | by BBC bosses, you're really sure you want to go. It's boring. There's no news there. |
| 0:13.4 | It's all shark attacks and crazy preachers. Well, it hasn't turned out quite like that. |
| 0:20.5 | Has it? So it is well worth getting America's going again. And well, all of us are here |
| 0:27.3 | to do it. Mariana. Hello. |
| 0:29.4 | Sarah, back actually in the United States. |
| 0:33.1 | I am. I took over as the BBC's North America editor back in. |
| 0:36.2 | February, I've been here for a few months when the news has not stopped. |
| 0:39.7 | You make yourself sound like a veteran, but there is a veteran, even more veteranized than |
| 0:45.7 | you, if that's a word, and certainly a veteran of this podcast. Anthony, tell us what we |
| 0:52.1 | should be doing for goodness sake. Charter member of America. Well, I think the thing |
| 0:57.6 | everyone should remember is that politics in America, particularly in the last six years, |
| 1:01.9 | have been entirely unpredictable, entirely surprising. So whatever we're going to do on |
| 1:07.6 | this podcast, whatever we think we're going to do on this podcast in the weeks and months |
| 1:11.8 | ahead, we have to be prepared to tear it all up because something that we're not expecting |
| 1:16.3 | is going to happen. And we're just going to have to roll with the punches. |
| 1:19.7 | This is America. |
| 1:21.0 | America. America. From BBC News. My name is Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are Kiss My |
| 1:30.2 | Ass. I will defend this nation. I don't allow no one to place a dagger at the throne of |
| 1:35.1 | democracy. A friend of mine recently said that I was the most persecuted person in the |
| 1:40.6 | history of our country. I'm standing in your way. I'm not going to let you get away with |
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