Hello, my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics.

Today's extra episode is a chance to listen again to the interview that Helen and I recorded

with Michael Lewis just before Christmas, in which he warned about the possibility that

the Trump administration had destroyed America's capacity to deal with the next great crisis.

At the end, Helen and I are going to be reflecting on what Michael Lewis's warning means

to us today.

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Helen, before we listened to the interview and it was very memorable, I think we both

enjoyed it, but it also seems like it comes from a distant time.

It was December when we thought politics was all about Brexit and the British general election.

Did it stay with you?

I mean, as this crisis will talk more about this after people have heard what Michael

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