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Hello, Chris and I are today making podcasting, nay, broadcasting history, aren't we?

We are, yeah, because we are going to and are reporting from a spot where in 20 plus years of reporting on Westminster, I reckon barely a couple of months has gone by without me

referring to where we are, but without ever having stepped through the door or multiple doors.

And where we are is the cabinet office briefing rooms in Whitehall where ministers and officials

gather when there's a crisis. And we always call it Cobra in the media,

but we've been told by all the cabinet officials. There's no such thing as Cobra. Just call

it the cabinet office briefing room. So that's where we are. So we're in. Yeah, just explain

the facility we're in. So we are in right now, aren't we? What effectively feels like a boardroom

and I'm sitting at the head

of a rectangular table with a semi-circular end, and it turns out I've discovered, I am sitting

in the chair, the chair's seat. Which is quite often the prime minister. So the prime minister or a senior

minister, or whoever it might be. And then we've got what? We've got three flat screens down one side of the room

and a couple down the other.

Massive video wall at the end.

A red microphone sign that looks like the sort of thing

you'd see outside one of our...

In fact, outside Newscast HQ,

except it says sec view on it.

Apparently that gets turned on when you're on a secure line.

There's a bunch of cameras on the ceiling and the walls, so you can do your video conferencing with your foreign counterparts or your British officials abroad.

There's a digital clock on the wall and just as you'd expect, it's got multiple time zones.

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