"Marianne Williamson For President"
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Sarah is on holiday so the BBC's US Special Correspondent Katty Kay steps into her breach on Americast, equipped with stories of Dr Anthony Fauci saving a guest at the prestigious Gridiron dinner.
The team speak to Marianne Williamson, who found fame as Oprah Winfrey's 'spiritual advisor', and who now wants to usurp Joe Biden to become the Democratic nominee for President, despite newly-emerged allegations of bullying her staffers.
There are other challenges for Biden this week, though - Marianna Spring talks us through how the president's controversial plans to approve oil drilling in Alaska are being received online.
And a former economist at the United States Department of the Treasury, Brad Setser, explains how damaging the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is for the US.
Americast is presented by the BBC’s US Special Correspondent Katty Kay, Today host Justin Webb, social media and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Simon Watts. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, Catty Kaye. Hello, Justin Webb. |
| 0:06.9 | I am delighted to say that Catty is joining us on America's |
| 0:10.6 | for a few weeks. She's managed to fit us in. |
| 0:12.8 | Around Catty what sounds like a typically glamorous schedule. |
| 0:16.7 | I've known you for many years. |
| 0:18.7 | It seems that your schedule is as glamorous now as it has ever been. |
| 0:23.5 | So last weekend, dinner with, well, a friend of this programme, |
| 0:27.2 | no lesser figure than Dr Anthony Fauci. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, I had a great weekend last weekend. |
| 0:32.4 | I went to the Gridiron dinner with Dr Fauci and Senator Kunz |
| 0:37.7 | and the British Ambassador in her husband, Sir Charles Roxbrough. |
| 0:41.1 | And we were all sitting there at this slightly odd, bizarre, |
| 0:45.2 | Washington institution of the Gridiron, |
| 0:47.0 | where we were earing white tie and Dr Fauci's there with his wife. |
| 0:49.9 | And suddenly he disappears in the middle of the dinner |
| 0:51.6 | and I'm thinking, oh, either it my company is very boring, |
| 0:55.0 | or the skits and we'll talk more about those later are abominable |
| 0:58.9 | because he's left early, but it turns out he had to go and |
| 1:02.7 | resuscitate a woman who had fainted at the dinner |
| 1:05.6 | and he did actually come back. |
| 1:07.2 | The delightful Dr Fauci, who is as good |
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